MATHEMATICS BACHELOR‘S THESIS FROM A POINT OF VIEW OF IMPROVEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY

The Bologna Declaration goal of a quality assurance obligate an institutions to develop and im-plement a strategy for the enhancement of higer education quality. This process jointly direct universities to developing of perspicuous standards for the bachelor‘s qualification thesis and to raising of proper con-ditions of thesis writing. The main aim of this scientific article is to discuss the problems of content and preparation conditions of mathematics bachelor‘s thesis from the point of view of improvement higher education quality. Research methods applied analysis of european and national scientific literature, national higher education policy documents, european and national universities mathematics study programmes, a questionnaire survey was used to test the opinion of students. This paper presents some results of Vilnius Pedagogical University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics student‘s attitudes to factors, dependent on a quality of theire bachelor‘s thesis and some results of comparative analysis of Lithuania universities standards for mathematics bahelor‘s qualification thesis content. Data were collected from last year bachelor students through a questionnaire using closed and open-ended guestions, also from the guidelines, published by several universities mathematics faculties and by individual researchers. Reffering to the obtained results, the following can be stated: students, have aspiration of high qu-ality thesis, striving for close co-operate with scientific research adviser during whole writing process; moste bachelors failure in realization of the requirements of mathematics bachelor‘s qualification thesis for reason of deficiency in needful information. The analysis of the bachelor‘s scientific works lead ascertain a few criteria of good-quality bachelor‘s thesis.