Palomar project: Predicting school renouncing dropouts, using the artificial neural networks as a support for educational policy decisions

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 717-750

  Carbone, Vincenzo ^a,b,c   Piras, Giuseppino ^a  

^a Munic Admin S Giovanni Valdarno   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Research Institutes

Author keywords

Educational guidance; Neural networks; School dropouts

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION MAKING; POLICY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 0031920465     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089809115893     Document Type: Article

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