Exploring the correlation between students' satisfaction and learning outcomes they achieved

Abstract

The article aims to present modern approaches in the teaching of programming subjects, to evaluate how students perceive them and to assess whether the given methods objectively improve the level of knowledge acquired by students. This research was carried out within the exercises of the subject Operating Systems taught in the bachelor's study of the Department of computers and informatics at the Technical University in Košice, The article will present not only the current way of teaching the subject, but also the development of teaching methodology, which led to the creation of current approaches. For four years, students' satisfaction with the way they were taught was detected through polls, based on which the teaching was constantly modified. The purpose of this article is to verify whether the satisfaction of students was reflected in their study results and achieved better grades than students in the past, whose opinion was not taken into account in teaching.