Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51702#.VHVkW2fHRK0 Author(s) Hudson F. Golino 1* , Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes 2 , Diego Andrade 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Núcleo de Pós-Graduacao, Pesquisa e Extensao, Faculdade Independente do Nordeste, Vitória da Conquista, Brazil . 2 Department of Psychology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil . ABSTRACT The present paper presents a relatively new non-linear method to predict academic achievement of high school students, integrating the fields of psychometrics and machine learning. A sample composed by 135 high-school students (10th grade, 50.34% boys), aged between 14 and 19 years old (M = 15.44, DP = 1.09), a...
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