IJESRT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY CORRELATION AND PREDICTION FOR PREPARATORY YEAR MATH AND ENGINEERING MATH IN UNIVERSITY OF HAIL

Azhari Ahmad, Sofian Obiedat
unpublished
Students' performance can be evaluated through final exam results consist of students' assignment, quizzes, mid-semester exam. In engineering and computer sciences , mathematics is one of the important subject students should dominated in many courses. However, students should have deep understanding of some important topics covered in Prep-Year such as, real numbers , equations , inequalities, matrices, functions , before they taken the Engineering , Computer Sciences (MATH) courses. This
more » ... le attempts to explore students' performance in MATH in the Faculty of Engineering and its correlation with Prep-Year mathematics. A study is carried out on student's results data which consisted of 216 students , finish successfully their studies in Prep-Year on 2012 , some of them enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering and others in the Faculty of Computer Sciences , taking different MATH courses. The results, which are verified by using paired t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, indicated that Prep-Year Math courses and early MATH Courses in Engineering and Computer Sciences (MATH-101) are significantly strongly correlated , for the later Engineering MATH courses we verified a significant positive linear relationship. Prediction of the performance of the students in Engineering MATH courses can be obtained in base of their performance in Prep-Year MATH through linear regression.
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