Effectiveness of Early Evaluation Test as a Method for Identification of Problematic Students

The decline in university students’ performance has become an issue of great concern to university educators. An early detection of problematic students can help the educators to monitor and improve the student performance. Previously, we propose a method to identify problematic student via an early evaluation test. In this work, we measure the effectiveness of the early evaluation test method. The students performance are monitored for three semesters, and their results are compared to the early evaluation test results. This study shows that only six out of 48 students are out from the early prediction, which gives the method 87.5% in accuracy.