Incidence of poor student nutrition affects academic performance

Challenges of student selection: Predicting academic performance

Finding accurate predidors of tertiary academic performance, specifically for disadvantaged students, is essential because of budget constraints and the need of the labour market to address employment equity. Increased retention, throughput and decreased dropout rates are vital. When making odmission decisions, the under preparedness of students necessitates that their potential cognitive abili...

College Student Technology Use and Academic Performance

As technology use continues to rise, especially among young individuals, there are concerns that excessive use of technology may impact academic performance. Researchers have started to investigate the possible negative effects of technology use on college academic performance, but results have been mixed. The following study seeks to expand upon previous studies by exploring the relationship a...

Modelling Engineering Student Academic Performance Using

Nutrition and student performance at school.

This article reviews research from published studies on the association between nutrition among school-aged children and their performance in school and on tests of cognitive functioning. Each reviewed article is accompanied by a brief description of its research methodology and outcomes. Articles are separated into 4 categories: food insufficiency, iron deficiency and supplementation, deficien...

Evaluation of Student Academic Performance using Improved Prism

Data mining techniques (DMT) are extensively used in educational field to find new hidden patterns from student’s data. Today, one of the main challenges that educational institutions face is the explosive growth of educational data of students and to use this data to improve the quality of decision-making. The study’s curiosity is in predicting the paths of students, thus identifying the stude...