Abstract:

The management of the university has to follow a few steps in order to achieve academic performance. Firstly, it is necessary to analyse permanently the academic environment in connection with other sectors of the society: the social and cultural environment, the economic environment, the technological one and so on. Secondly, it is necessary to plan the educational process, to develop the curricula and to test the new plans. Thirdly, the management must implement these plans, to evaluate their effects in society and, of course, to make corrections, if they are necessary.
In the last years, the managerial staff of the academic Romanian institutions emphasizes especially the evaluation stage of all educational activities. A central role in the evaluation process is played by the students’ opinions regarding the way in which academics conduct their educational activities. At this step, we agree that knowing the students’ perception on the teaching aids can help the professor to make an interesting course and transform a heavy discipline into a very pleasant one.
The paper presents the main results of a study made in various faculties of a Romanian university, regarding the students’ perception on the teaching aids used by academics in the classroom. We proved that some visual, acoustic and other kinds of elements of perception can sustain the teaching approach in certain specializations. For all that, students in various specializations/faculties prefer different visual or acoustic elements for the teaching aids.
Finally, the paper highlights the need to develop regularly and rhythmically studies like this, because the youth perception on the educative process, in particular, and on the society, life or values, in general, permanently changes. Moreover, the new generations of students perceive different than their older colleagues the environment in which they learn and develop.

Keywords:

Perception, students, teaching aids.