What Drives the Grades of Bachelor Theses?
| Author: | Bc. Josef Kurka |
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| Year: | 2014 - summer |
| Leaders: | PhDr. Jiří Schwarz Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 56 |
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| Link: | https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/138034/ |
| Abstract: | This thesis examines factors influencing grades of bachelor theses. We are not aware of any literature dealing directly with factors affecting grades, hence we review literature investigating determinants of citations in the scientific articles, which is a topic very similar to ours.The literature shows numerous factors with potential to be determinants of grades. They vary from general characteristics to content, cited literature or academic degree of advisor and opponent. Most of those variab les are correlated with inner abilities of each student, which could make our model suffer from endogeneity. A proxy in the form of average grade from mathematic courses is included to deal with this problem. To account for model uncertainty resulting fro m high number of explanatory variables, Bayesian Model Averaging is employed on our dataset comprised of 100 bachelor theses of IES students. Academic degree of advisor and opponent, as well as clarity of writing were found to influence grades significantly. In some specifications, mathematics grade and selection of literature turn out to be efficient predictors of grades as well |
