Determinants of accounting students’ academic performance of public universities in Kwara state

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dc.contributor.authorOlaniyi, T.A
dc.contributor.authorAdetoyan, E.S
dc.contributor.authorMustapha, A
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-08T08:39:21Z
dc.date.available2021-03-08T08:39:21Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractStudents, who were provided with the same facilities, taught by the same lecturers and used the same study modules differ in terms of academic performance the trend of which are subject of different factors which also vary from students to student. This study examines the factors that influence academic performance of accounting students in public universities in Kwara state, Nigeria. Specifically, the study evaluates impact of lecturer’s ability to impact knowledge, effect of personal factors, physical and environmental factors on academic performance of accounting students. The study employed Krejciean and Morgan’s table to select 250 respondents from University of Ilorin and Kwara State University for 2014/15 academic session. Structured open-ended questionnaire was used to obtained primary data used while ordered logistic regression analysis was used to analyze responses on core factors as specifies in the model. The result revealed a significant positive relationship between lecturer’s ability, class attendance, class size, study hour, course unit loading; accommodation and student academic performance while internet facility give a negative significant relationship with students’ academic performance. Based on these findings, it was recommended that students should increase their study hour per day. University internet facility should be restricted from certain social sites so as to prevent student abuse, class attendance should be strictly taken into consideration when preparing students list for examination purpose. Frequent training, workshop and seminars should be continued for lecturer so as to increase their lecturing skill and professionalism.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOlaniyi, T.A., Adetoyan, E.S. & Mustapha, A. (2016): Determinants of accounting students’ academic performance of public universities in Kwara state. Osogbo Journal of Management. 1 (2); 27 – 45en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4460
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartments of Accounting & Finance and Business Administration, Fountain University, Osogbo.en_US
dc.subjectAcademicen_US
dc.subjectperformanceen_US
dc.subjectstudenten_US
dc.titleDeterminants of accounting students’ academic performance of public universities in Kwara stateen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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