Predicting success in a first year engineering course: the role of study habits

What factors influence the success of engineering students in their first year courses? Our students have been selected to represent a very limited range of intellectual abilities; they have high SAT scores and good high school grades. Therefore any performance differences must be due to other factors. Others have studied the role of learning styles, attitudes, and personality traits. In this paper, we attempt to predict academic performance based on our students' study habits.