Statistical Confluences and Qualitative Approaches to the Presence of Mathematics in ASEM Curricula

Abstract

Currently the regulation on the organization of admission to higher education for the 2023/2024 academic year (and previous years) does not indicate the profile that candidates who opt for a certain field of professional training must have. It is worth mentioning that both candidates with bachelor’s degree in the real profile, as well as those with humanist profile, arts or sports have same access to the general field of study Economic Sciences. Thus, obviously, the background is different for all candidates. In this paper, we aim to explore the knowledge in mathematics that candidates in the general field of study of economics possess, as in the first semester at all specialties in the field of Economic Sciences, students have the course unit Mathematics for Economists or Linear Algebra and Mathematical Analysis. Now students are not selected at the beginning of the semester in terms of their knowledge of mathematics, respectively, those with a real profile have an advantage over those with a humanist profile. This paper aims to investigate this problem. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53486/cike2023.71; UDC: [330.14:371.214.112]:378.14(478); JEL: A2, C8