Josu Gotzon Ruiz de Gauna Gorostiza

Pruebas de selectividad en Matemáticas en la UPV-EHU : resultados y opiniones de los profesores

The entrance test to university exists with this name in Spain from 1975. In this contribution we have put our interest on the relation between teaching methodology and the entrance test to university, and the focus on the two mathematics subjects of the second course of bachelor’ degree. The methodology that we have employed is an study of the individual results of students in the two Mathematics subjects in The Basque Country University during 1994-2008 years and an study of the results that schools have got in the same University during 2004.2008 years. Moreover we have made an opinion research that was carried out in the secondary schools of the Basque Country during the last 2009-2010 course, that contained many questions about teaching methodology and the way used to prepare the entrance test to university. We had an extent answer that was treated with statistical analyses of frequencies, of interrelation/association of variables and reduction of dimension. Some of the results are the following: the average mark of the entrance examination has improved in the period, LOGSE entrance examination produced worse results in Mathematics II, the results in Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences are very low and we have confirmed differences between public schools and state schools. As far as the opinion research is concerned some of the results are the following: predominance of the textbooks of one publishing house, more use of own material in public schools, the test is prepared along the course, in Mathematics II a practical-traditional style is employed and in Mathematics Applied to the Social Sciences there are a larger combination of styles and for both Mathematic the aim of teaching is balanced between learning and preparing the entrance examination. We also establish some characteristics in metdodology for schools according to their results in entrance examinations.