Table 3.

Independent variable importance to examination determinants score in a two-layer neural networks (perceptron/regression) model

Factors/covariates*	Importance	Normalized importance (%)
Age	0.160	45.7
Gender	0.053	15.2
Marital status	0.075	21.3
Academic program	0.021	5.9
GPA*	0.340	96.9*
Study hours*	0.351	100*

GPA=Grade point average . *Sig. at 90%