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de-la-Fuente-Valentin, Luis; Pardo, Abelardo; Kloos, Carlos Delgado – Computers & Education, 2013
The acquisition of programming skills specially in introductory programming courses poses an important challenge for freshmen students of engineering programs. These courses require students to devote a sustained effort during the whole course and a failure to do so may contribute to not passing the course. However, it is difficult for the…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Programming, Computer Science Education, Automation
Dekker, Gerben W.; Pechenizkiy, Mykola; Vleeshouwers, Jan M. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe the results of the educational data mining case study aimed at predicting the Electrical Engineering (EE) students drop out after the first semester of their studies or even before they enter the study program…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Case Studies