Predicting academic achievement of college computer science majors

Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-172

  Fan, Tai Sheng ^a   Li, Yi Ching ^a   Niess, Margaret L ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Computer science; Gender dftferences; Higher education; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010506940     PISSN: 08886504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08886504.1998.10782248     Document Type: Article

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