This study focuses on the computer laboratory class as a learning environment in university courses. It involved the development and validation of two instruments, the Computer Laboratory Environment Inventory (CLEI) and the Attitude towards Computing and Computing Courses Questionnaire (ACCC). The CLEI has five scales for measuring students' perceptions of aspects of their laboratory environment. These are Student Cohesiveness, Open-Endedness, Integration, Technology Adequacy and Laboratory Availability. The ACCC has four scales, Anxiety, Enjoyment, Usefulness of Computers and Usefulness of the Course. The instruments were administered at three universities, one in Australia, one in England and one in the United States. The classes surveyed included those in which the development of software was the focus of study, such as Information Systems and Computer Science, and others in which the computer was used as a tool. With the exception of Laboratory Availability, all the environment variables were found to correlate significantly with all attitudinal variables. The only environment variable with significant association with achievement was Student Cohesiveness. However, the results showed that there were significant associations between the attitudinal variables, Anxiety, Enjoyment and Usefulness of the Course and achievement. Regression analysis supported the findings that the environment variables made a significant contribution to the attitudinal variables, and these in turn made a significant contribution to achievement. Further analysis using structural equation modelling suggests that computer laboratory environment affects achievement indirectly by directly affecting students' attitudes towards computers but even more so their attitude towards the course.The significance of this study is, that it is one of the first that has investigated the effectiveness of ++ / computer laboratory classes in a university setting in which the computer is central to the discipline being studied. The results demonstrate the importance of the laboratory environment in those courses in which the computer plays a major role. The CLEI will prove useful in the design and implementation of the laboratory component of a course and in the formative evaluation of such a course.

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This work focuses on small and medium entrepreneurship. Its aim is to analyse the Czech entrepreneur environment based on legislative and on the activity of relevant institutions and to compare Czech conditions to foreign ones, in general and focusing on Germany. The work provides overview of entrepreneur environment in the Czech Republic, follows its development and gives issues of business forms in the Czech Republic, in Germany and on the European Union level. The international indexes and results of my business questionnaire are applied to comparison.

The accessibility of workplace is fundamental for people with physical disabilities work performance. Occupational therapists, members of an interprofessional rehabilitation team, deal with factors of physical environment. They are able to evaluate workplace and make recommendations how to remove identified barriers. However, no appropriate tools were found in the available literature for detailed evaluation of work environment of people with physical disabilities in the Czech Republic. The tools found are described in the theoretical part of the thesis. Therefore the first aim of the thesis was to create a pilot version of new czech tool for work environment evaluation called "ERGOHoP-P" (Occupational Therapy Work Environment Evaluation) intended for occupational therapists. The second aim was to create a draft of some chosen chapters of technological clinical recommended procedure of physical work environment evaluation by an occupational therapist and selection of suitable facilitators for people with physical disability. Both aims were fulfilled. The process of administration was tested by three occupational therapists during the creation of the tool ERGOHoP-P. It was found that they differ from the author's results from "assessment according to legislation" in 3-6% and in 4-10% in "functional...