The impact of pre-undergraduate preparation courses in accounting on academic performance
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Title
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The impact of pre-undergraduate preparation courses in accounting on academic performance
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Description
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Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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This study provides a thick description of an Accounting bridging
course and it examines the impact of this pre-university course on the academic
performance of students in a first-year introductory Accounting course at a South
African university. Several control variables (such as taking Accounting at school,
performance in mathematics at school, learning self-efficacy, motivation to learn and
student motivation) were taken into account to determine the impact of the course on
students’ performance in various assessments of the first-year Accounting course.
Propensity score matching and Heckman’s procedure were used to compensate for
selection bias. The findings show that there is a positive association between
students’ attendance of this pre-university course and their academic performance in
Module test 1.
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Accounting
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PhD
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Unrestricted
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Contributor
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De Villiers, Charl Johannes
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Joynt, Corlia Maria
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Date
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2019-06-02T11:40:08Z
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2019-06-02T11:40:08Z
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2019/04/05
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2018
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Type
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Thesis
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Format
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Joynt, CM 2018, The impact of pre-undergraduate preparation courses in accounting on academic performance, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70118>
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A2019
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70118
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Language
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en
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Rights
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© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.