Predicting academic achievement:: Linear regression versus logistic regression

The main goal of this work was to evaluate the capability of linear regression and logistic regression in predicting academic achievement and academic success. Our study pays special attention to attendance and participation, whose variables that are associated to academic achievement (Alvarado and Garcia Jimenez, 1997). We analyzed data from 175 undergraduates enrolled on their first year of psychology course in the subject of "Methods and Designs of Investigation in Psychology I", in the area of Methodology. The conclusions of this study are that (a) prior academic achievement is a good predictor of the future academic achievement and (b) the attendance and mainly the participation are variables with an important emphasis on the prediction of academic achievement.