title: Predicting success among first-year engineering students at the Rand Afrikaans University.
abstract: 160 first-year students in the Engineering Faculty at the Rand Afrikaans University completed the Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics and the Senior Aptitude Test Advanced. 100 students who passed and 40 who failed the first year scored significantly differently on three subtests, Calculations, Study attitude in mathematics, and Problem-solving behaviour in mathematics. Step-wise linear regression showed a combination of three fields, namely, Calculations, Study attitude in mathematics, and Mathematics anxiety, contributed significantly (R2=25.8%) towards predicting the first-year aggregate score of first-year engineering students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, RSA.
authors.forename: Jacobus G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Maree
authors.forename: Anlia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pretorius
authors.forename: Riëtte J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Eiselen
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D003469:Culture; D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013019:South Africa; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires