1. Sample

1.1. Selection criterions

All the sections susceptible to use the multimedia modules resulted following the project were questioned. All the students of al the sections were invited to answer to the questionnaire, during one course class.

The deployment of the inquiring and manner of collecting the questionnaires (in annex) were presented by the independent evaluator, in the front of each group of students, in the classes of each implied university.

The confidentiality of the individual answers was guaranteed and the participation to the inquiring was the free choice of the students.

Even were encountered some absences and some dysfunctions, the dimensions of the samples are quasi identical to the dimensions of the totality of the population potentially implied in using the multimedia tools during February - June 2004.

1.2. Distribution on countries and sections

Institution, city, country	Groups	Year of study	Thematic	Date	n
UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	2	3	El. machines	3/02/2004	65
		4	El. machines	9/02/2004	23
				Total:	88
UCv, Craiova, Romania	10	2	Circuits	4/03/2004	55
		2	Circuits	4/03/2004	45
		3	Power Elec.	4/03/2004	21
		3	Power Elec.	4/03/2004	26
		3	Power Elec.	4/03/2004	18
		3	Power Elec.	4/03/2004	25
		3	Power Elec.	4/03/2004	22
		4	El. machines	5/03/2004	34
		4	El. machines	5/03/2004	24
		4	El. machines	5/03/2004	31
		4	El. machines	5/03/2004	23
				Total:	324
IST, Lisbon, Portugal	4	2		11/03/2004	16
		2		11/03/2004	84
		3 + 4		11/03/2004	64
		4 + 5		11/03/2004	16
				Total:	180
HEI, Lille, France	1	3		19/03/2004	103
			Total sample:		695

 

1.3. Sex

1.4. Accommodation

1.5. Level of the parents' studies

Comparative table of the level of the parents' level of studies versus the general average:

	UCL,	UCv,	IST,	HEI,
University	+	-	=	+
Superior	+	=	-	=
Secondary	-	+	=	-
Primary	-	-	+	-

1.6. Synthesis

The Belgian and French students are less under the daily control of the parents than the Portuguese and Romanian students. The Belgian parents have, as average, the highest level of studies, than the parents of the students implied in inquiring, followed by the French parents. The level of the parents' studies of the Portuguese and Romanian students is, as average, lower than the level of the parents' studies of the Belgian and Frenches students. The level of the Romanian parents is more homogenous than the Portuguese parents, which have the biggest weight of primary level (quasi equal with the ones with university level). The engineering studies seem to be, in Romania and Portugal, a reason for social ascension, more than in France and Belgium.