Predicting Academic Performance of Engineering Students Using Ensemble Method

Predicting Academic Performance of Pharmacy Students: Demographic Comparisons

This study examined the predictive power of six independent variables on pharmacy students’ academic performance across demographic variables. The study also developed a profile of pharmacy students who were more likely to have academic success and difficulty. A total of 437 pharmacy students from all three pharmacy schools in Texas participated in this study. Results showed that prepharmacy GP...

Predicting Academic Performance Based on Students' Blog and Microblog Posts

This study investigates the degree to which textual complexity indices applied on students’ online contributions, corroborated with a longitudinal anal‐ ysis performed on their weekly posts, predict academic performance. The source of student writing consists of blog and microblog posts, created in the context of a project-based learning scenario run on our eMUSE platform. Data is collected fro...

Predicting academic performance of dental students using perception of educational environment.

Greater emphasis on student-centered education means that students' perception of their educational environment is important. The ultimate proof of this importance is its effect on academic performance. The aim of this study was to assess the predictability of dental students' grades as indicator of academic performance through their perceptions of the educational environment. The Dundee Ready ...

Modelling Engineering Student Academic Performance Using

Predicting Academic Discipline Choice Using Students’ Subjective Utilities ?

In this article, both economics and psychology were used to derive predictors of university students’ discipline choice. From economics the idea of utility maximization was used. Using psychological theory non-monetary profits of education were made explicit. Freshmen of nine different university disciplines (law, history, economics, psychology, political sciences, English linguistics, Spanish ...