Early prediction of students' grade point averages at graduation: A data mining approach;Öǧrencinin mezuniyet notunun erken tahmini: Bir veri madenciliǧi yaklaşi{dotless}mi{dotless}

Egitim Arastirmalari - Eurasian Journal of Educational Research

Volumn , Issue 54, 2014, Pages 207-226

  Tekin, Ahmet ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Educational data mining; GPA prediction; Higher education; Prediction methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904724129     PISSN: 1302597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14689/ejer.2014.54.12     Document Type: Article

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