There is a limit on the amount of time a faculty member may devote to each student. As a consequence, a faculty member must quickly determine which student needs more attention than others throughout a semester. One of the most demanding courses in the CS curriculum is a data structures course. This course has a tendency for high drop rates at our university. A pre-assessment exam is developed for the data structures class in order to provide feedback to both faculty and students. This exam

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... s students determine how well prepared they are for the course. In order to determine a student's chance of success in this course, a Genetic Program-based experiment is constructed based upon the preassessment exam. The result is a model that produces an average accuracy of 79 percent.