Student perceptions of the factors influencing their success in first-year accounting

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dc.contributor.authorSteenkamp, Lenen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBaard, Roelofen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorFrick, Liezelen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-01T10:20:56Z
dc.date.available2017-06-01T10:20:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.en_ZA
dc.descriptionCITATION: Steenkamp, L., Baard, R. & Frick, L. 2009. Student Perceptions of the Factors Influencing their Success in First-year Accounting, in B. Leibowits, A. Van der Merwe & S. Van Schalkwyk (eds). Focus on First-year success: Perspectives emerging from South Africa and Beyond. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 143-154. doi:10.18820/9781920338220.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: The learner brings an accumulation of assumptions, motives, intentions, and previous knowledge that envelopes every teaching/learning situation and determines the course and quality of learning that may take place (Biggs, 1996:348). Biggs’s understanding of the determining influences students may have on the teaching and learning environment is supported by a variety of authors in the field of Accounting education (Byrne & Flood, 2005; Duff, 2004; Duff, Boyle, Dunleavy & Ferguson, 2004; Lucas & Meyer, 2004; Ramburuth & Mladenovic, 2004). The changed and increasingly diversified student populations in higher education across the world (Cross, 2004; Drost, 2002; Lowe & Cook, 2003) amplify the need for Accounting lecturers to take note of their students’ assumptions, motives, intentions, and previous knowledge that may influence student success (Byrne & Flood, 2005). Various studies provide general information on students entering the higher education system (for example, Masitsa, 2004; Mji, 2002; Pillay, 2004; Toni & Oliver, 2004; Wößmann, 2003). A number of studies focus on Accounting students’ approaches to learning (Byrne, Flood & Willis, 2004; Duff, 2004; Lucas & Meyer, 2004; Ramburuth & Mladenovic, 2004), while Hermanson, Deines, Eldridge, Hermanson, Ivancevich and Williams (1996) focus on the recruitment of first-year Accounting students in the USA. Du Plessis, Müller and Prinsloo (2005), Müller, Prinsloo and Du Plessis (2007), Rowlands (1988) and Van Rensburg, Penn and Haiden (1998), focus particularly on the first-year success of Accounting students at three different South African universities. The South African-based studies investigated the causal relationships between various indicators, notably students’ prior school performance, as possible predictors of future academic success.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationSteenkamp, L., Baard, R. & Frick, L. 2009. Student Perceptions of the Factors Influencing their Success in First-year Accounting, in B. Leibowits, A. Van der Merwe & S. Van Schalkwyk (eds). Focus on First-year success: Perspectives emerging from South Africa and Beyond. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 143-154. doi:10.18820/9781920338220.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-920338-22-0en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn978-1-920338-12-1 (ebook)en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781920338220
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101669
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherAFRICAN SUN MeDIAen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartFactors influencing the learning process in first-year chemistryen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartIntroduction: Perspectives on the first-year Experienceen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartStudent and Staff Portals as Support Channels for the First-year Acadmenyen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartTutoring is Fun': A Study in Investigating Tutor Motivationen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartWhat Makes a 'Good' First-year Lecturer?en_ZA
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101618
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101672
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101671
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101666
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101667
dc.rights.holderAFRICAN SUN MeDIAen_ZA
dc.subjectAccounting -- Study and teaching (Higher)en_ZA
dc.subjectStudents -- Academic workload -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectAccounting -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.titleStudent perceptions of the factors influencing their success in first-year accountingen_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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