Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
Publisher’s Version
Publication Date
1-2014
Abstract
The current study investigates the association of prior academic achievement, admission interview, critical thinking, mathematical aptitude and gender with successful academic performance in an undergraduate accountancy degree programme at a Singapore university. The purpose of revisiting the determinants of academic performance in the Singapore context is twofold. First, university accounting education in Singapore has changed greatly since Koh and Koh’s earlier study (1999); the current study examines if determinants previously identified as significant continue to be so in the new setting. Second, the study tests the usefulness of admission interview in identifying applicants who achieve subsequent academic success. Data on students’ performance throughout the whole accountancy degree programme are obtained from the university students’ records database. The current study shows that prior academic performance, mathematical aptitude and gender continue to be significantly associated with successful academic performance in the new style of accountancy degree programme; admission interview and critical thinking are also significant determinants of subsequent academic success. The results imply that university administrators may efficiently shortlist applicants based on prior academic performance, but should employ wider selection criteria including interviews and measures of critical thinking ability.
Keywords
Determinants of academic performance, admission interview, accountancy degree programme
Discipline
Accounting | Asian Studies | Education | Higher Education Administration
Research Areas
Accounting Information System
Publication
Global Perspectives on Accounting Education
Volume
11
First Page
1
Last Page
23
ISSN
1543-2955
Publisher
Global Perspectives on Accounting Education
Citation
SEOW, Poh Sun; PAN, Gary; and TAY, Joanne Siok Wan.
Revisiting the determinants of students' performance in an undergraduate accountancy degree programme in Singapore. (2014). Global Perspectives on Accounting Education. 11, 1-23.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1247
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://gpae.wcu.edu/index.php/2017/01/12/revisting-the-determinants-of-student-performance-in-an-undergraduate-accountancy-degree-programme-in-singapore/