ROC Curves (Receiver Operating Characteristic) are remarkably useful in medical decision-making. Given a common measurable characteristic, with a continuous output in all the beings of a group, ROC curves determine a threshold on the values of the characteristic, which tries to predict the classification of beings into discrete classes. In the Facultad de Informática of Valencia (Spain), we hav...

This retrospective study was designed to evaluate the contribution of grade point average (GPA) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) practical scores toward predicting perfusion academic success, career placement as a clinical perfusionist, and certification success or failure. The files of 95 students enrolled in the perfusion technology program at Carlow University-Unive...

Our purpose was to compare admissions criteria as predictors of dental school performance in underachieving and normally tracking dental students. Underachieving dental students were identified by selecting ten students with the lowest class grade point average following the first year of dental school from five classes, resulting in a pool of fifty students. Normally tracking students served a...

This study aims to 1) develop Machine Learning Ecosystem models enhance grade point averages, and 2) predict averages by modeling techniques, namely, Decision Trees (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), a Neural Network (NN). Findings from an efficiency comparison of the three in predicting showed that DT achieved highest accuracy 100.00%. In contrast, NN second-highest 85.83%, NB lowest 81.67%. For F-Measur...

With the current trend in educational budget cuts it is imperative that schools are aware of ways to increase student success. A negative stigma has often been associated with being an athlete. The following study was designed to discover whether students participating in athletics tend to possess significantly different grade point averages, and unexcused absence rates, than their non-athlete ...

In order to better understand the potential influence of high school students’ grades on how they rate their teachers and schools, we explored relationship between student grade point average ratings teacher effectiveness in 370 classes taught by 230 instructors with over 6,000 students 9–12 an Intermountain West district. Teachers were evaluated 18-item survey. Students also rated schools six ...