How Much Do Study Habits, Skills, and Attitudes Affect Student Performance in Introductory College Accounting Courses?

• Main Author: Yu, Darwin D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2011
• Subjects: accounting student performance; study habits; student perception of teacher effectiveness; Accounting; Business
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/finance-and-accounting-faculty-pubs/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=finance-and-accounting-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Background: Financial accounting is a skills course which to a large extent can be best learned through deliberate practice. Teachers implement this by continuously assigning homeworks, encouraging good study habits, asking students to budget time for studying, and generally exhorting students to “w...