Predicting performance by university students in introductory computing courses

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Predicting performance by university students in introductory computing courses

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 7 , Issue 3 (September 1975) table of contents

Pages: 21 - 29

Year of Publication: 1975

ISSN:0097-8418

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C. K. Capstick	Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
J. D. Gordon	Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
A. Salvadori	Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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