Understanding academic performance and progression of first-year accounting and business economics undergraduates: the role of approaches to learning and prior academic achievement

By A. Duff. 2004

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Exploring individual differences as determining factors in student academic achievement in higher education (2012, unknown): “2006 ; Duff 2004 ; Norton and Crowley 1995 ; Schmeck 1983 ).”
A Literature Review of the Impact of Extracurricular Activities Participation on Students’ Academic Performance (2014, unknown): “…of students’ academic performance in an undergraduate accountancy degree program (Bergin, 1983; Byrne & Flood, 2008; Clark & Sweeney, 1985; Duff, 2004; Eskew & Faley, 1988; Gammie, Jones, & RobertsonMillar, 2003; Gracia & Jenkins, 2002, 2003; Gist, Goedde, & Ward, 1996; Guney, 2009; Koh…”
Achievement Goal Theory: The Relationship of Accounting Students’ Goal Orientations with Self-efficacy, Anxiety, and Achievement (2015, background): “The strategic approach describes a focus on achieving good grades (which is more aligned with performance goals or surface motive) and using whatever strategies are seen as appropriate (either deep or surface strategies) (Byrne, Flood, & Willis, 2002; Duff, 2004).”
Factors influencing success in first-year accounting at a South African university: A comparison between lecturers’ assumptions and students’ perceptions (2009, background): “A number of studies focused on Accounting students’ approaches to learning (Byrne, Flood & Willis, 2004; Duff, 2004; Lucas & Meyer, 2004; Ramburuth & Mladenovic, 2004), while Hermanson et al. (1996) focused on the recruitment of first-year Accounting students in the USA.”
The relationship between motivation, learning approaches, academic performance and time spent (2017, methodology): “Biggs (1985) developed this model based on Entwistle’s ASI.”
Exploring the impact of English-medium instruction on university student academic achievement: The case of accounting (2016, background): “discourse socialization” (Duff, 2004) or development of “academic literacy” (Street, 2005), whereby learners “need to engage in a variety of practices in their particular discipline, often switching between different genres and academic practices” (Benzie, 2010, p.”
Factors affecting bioscience students’ academic achievement (2012, background): “For example, according to Eley (1992) students of English language scored higher on items measuring deep approach to learning than biochemistry or chemistry students.”