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The new app SmartGPA, which predicts a college student’s grades, builds on a Dartmouth study that created an app to automatically reveal students’ mental health, academic performance, and behavioral trends, reports Business Standard.

“Many cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors impact student learning during college,” Professor of Computer Science Andrew Campbell, senior author of the SmartGPA study, tells Business Standard.

“Our SmartGPA results show there are a number of important study and social behaviors automatically inferred from smartphone sensing data that significantly correlate with term and cumulative GPA,” says Campbell.

Read the full story, published 5/27/15 by Business Standard.