Predicting performance in an introductory computer science course

Authors:
D. F. Butcher;W. A. Muth
Affiliations:
West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV;West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1985

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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.