Prediction of student academic performance in an Engineering Dynamics course: Development and validation of multivariate regression models

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1008-1017

  Huang, Shaobo ^a   Fang, Ning ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering Dynamics; Multivariate regression; Prediction accuracy; Student academic performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956428888     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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