Student Performance Early Indicator using Mathematics and Engineering Fundamental Test

It is a fact that the decline in the university student's performance has become an issue of concern. Their excellence accomplished at the school and pre-university levels do not warrant similar results when they are at the university. Student's superb academic performance can actually be retained if they can be monitored as early as their first year of study at the university. Therefore, a method to identify whether the student performance is affected by lack of mathematics and electric & electronic engineering fundamentals is introduced. The students are required to sit for a basic assessment test at the early semester. The results of the test are then made as a yardstick to be compared with the results that they obtain after first semester. The comparative results for both tests show that majority of student weak performance is caused by their lack of fundamentals in mathematics and electric & electronic engineering. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.