Predicting performance in an introductory computer science course
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 28 (3), 263-268
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3166.3167
Abstract
A group of 269 first-semester freshmen was used to predict both performance in an introductory computer science course and first-semester college grade point average by using information regarding the students' programs and performance in high school along with American College Testing Program (ACT) test scores.Keywords
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