TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting success in a quality control course
T2 - 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
AU - Wilck, Joseph
AU - Kauffmann, Paul J.
AU - Lynch, Paul C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2016.
PY - 2016/6/26
Y1 - 2016/6/26
N2 - The research objective of this paper is to evaluate predictors of success for a quality control course for undergraduate engineering majors at East Carolina University. The 37 predictors included demographic data (e.g., age, gender, race, academic major), records of success (e.g., incoming GPA, performance in prerequisite courses, time between prerequisite courses and the quality control course), and additional course indicators (e.g., class time of day, student attendance, performance on Test 1 versus overall). This quality control course is evaluated over a three year period with five offerings (sections) by the same instructor for 127 students. The results indicate that the time between the prerequisite course and the quality control course is not statistically significant to success in the quality control course. However, the student's prior semester GPA, incoming cumulative GPA, and performance in the prerequisite course are significant to success in the quality control course.
AB - The research objective of this paper is to evaluate predictors of success for a quality control course for undergraduate engineering majors at East Carolina University. The 37 predictors included demographic data (e.g., age, gender, race, academic major), records of success (e.g., incoming GPA, performance in prerequisite courses, time between prerequisite courses and the quality control course), and additional course indicators (e.g., class time of day, student attendance, performance on Test 1 versus overall). This quality control course is evaluated over a three year period with five offerings (sections) by the same instructor for 127 students. The results indicate that the time between the prerequisite course and the quality control course is not statistically significant to success in the quality control course. However, the student's prior semester GPA, incoming cumulative GPA, and performance in the prerequisite course are significant to success in the quality control course.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84983266691
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2016-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 29 June 2016
ER -