Predicting success in first year quantitative courses: an open engineering math readiness score for early levelling decisions
Fernando Ramírez
Mathematics readiness at entry remains critical for success in first-year engineering programs, yet many institutions lack transparent, reusable tools to diagnose risk and design levelling policies. This study develops and evaluates an open Engineering Mathematics Readiness Score (EMRS) using two publicly available datasets: the UCI Student Performance dataset in secondary-school mathematics and the international SMARVUS dataset on statistics and mathematics anxieties and related variables in un