Interacting factors that predict success and failure in a CS1 course

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 101-104

  Rountree, Nathan ^a   Rountree, Janot ^a   Robins, Anthony ^a   Hannah, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CS1; Decision tree; Modelling; Predictors of success; Student background

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; SURVEYING; TEACHING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREE; PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS; STUDENT BACKGROUND;

CURRICULA;

EID: 33646822479     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1041624.1041669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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