the main purpose of this paper has been to predict english students’ academic achievement on the basis of achievement goals, motivational –usefulness beliefs and the kind of mobile usages. the population of the study consisted of english language students in the faculty of foreign language at isfahan university from both undergraduate and graduate levels in 2011-2012. by applying a random sampl...

Supporting academic success is a central focus of higher education institutions. To address this challenge, predictive techniques could be applied in order to build models that predict academic performance such as student retention and graduation. This paper presents a predictive system for modeling and scoring students achievements. Based on student historical data, predictive models are devel...

Two of the most important outcomes of learning analytics are predicting students’ learning and providing effective feedback. Learning Management Systems (LMS), which are widely used to support online and face-to-face learning, provide extensive research opportunities with detailed records of background data regarding users’ behaviors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of ...

OBJECTIVES To measure the students' perceptions of educational environment of a medical school, to compare the perceptions of high, average and low academic achievers, and to explore the relation between these perceptions and their academic achievements in order to identify specific problem areas. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at Ziauddin University, Karachi, during the mid ...