The role of academic performance in engineering attrition

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Guili ^a   Min, YoungKyoung ^a,b   Ohland, Matthew ^c,d   Anderson, Timothy ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b and Architecture   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tau Beta Pi   (United States)

^e General Engineering Program ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ACADEMIC POLICYMAKING; GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA);

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 85029044277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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