Predicting academic success of engineering students in technical drawing from working memory

Tests on spatial aptitude, in particular Visualization, have been shown to be efficient predictors of the academic performance of Technical Drawing stu-dents. It has recently been found that Spatial Working Memory (a construct defined as the ability to perform tasks with a figurative content that require si-multaneous storage and transformation of information) is strongly associated with Visualization. In the present study we analyze the predictive efficiency of a bat-tery of tests that included tests on Visualization, SpatialWorking Memory, Spatial Short-term Memory and Executive Function on a sample of first year engineering students. The results show that Spatial Working Memory (SWM) is the most important predictor of academic success in Technical Drawing. In our view, SWM tests can be useful for detecting as early as possible those students who will require more attention and support in the teaching-learning process.

The Pre-entry Program at UTMSH: Effect on Academic Performance of First-Year Medical Students

Introduction: The Pre-Entry Program at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston is presented to assist entering students who are judged to be at risk for academic difficulty. It requires a significant commitment of time on the part of faculty, staff and students. The effectiveness of this program needs to be evaluated. [See PDF for complete abstract]

First steps in the discovery of patterns in the academic results of telecommunication engineering students in the subjects Analysis of Circuits and Mathematics

In this paper, the results of six years of research in engineering education, in the application of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to improve the performance of the students in the subject Analysis of Circuits of Telecommunication Engineering, are analysed taking into consideration the fact that there would be hidden variables that both separate students into subgroups and show the connection among several basic subjects such as Analysis of Circuits (AC) and Mathematics (Math). The discovery of these variables would help us to explain the characteristics of the students through the teaching and learning methodology, and would show that there are some characteristics that instructors do not take into account but that are of paramount importance

2007UM Athletic Hall of Honor Inductees

{l-r: Barry Larkin, Christina Seufert Sholtis, J. Daniel Cline, Tom Curtis, Melanie Weaver Barnett, Wally Gacek, Ginny Duenkel

1994 UM Athletic Hall of Honor Inductees

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Academic growth of high school age Hispanic students in the United States /

"CS 87-359c."

Index of the Rolls of honor (ancestor's index) in the Lineage books of the National society of the Daughters of the American revolution, volumes 41 to 80.

Mode of access: Internet.

The way of honor /

Mode of access: Internet.

Academic missions of family medicine /

Includes bibliographies and index.

The South Kensington Museum : examples of the works of art in the museum and of the decorations of the building with brief descriptions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Predicting academic success of business administration students.

Bibliography: leaves 48-51.

The works of Honoré de Balzac /

Index: vol. 18.