Determinants of Accounting Students’ Academic Performance in Online Teaching and Learning Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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This research aims to examine the relationship between predictor variables and measured variables. Predictor Variables consist of characteristics of an online classroom, the instructor’s enthusiasm, classroom management, interaction with the students, helpfulness, and fairness, including students’ learning performance, habits of self-study, and academic endurance. Meanwhile, measured variable refers to students’ academic performance in online accounting courses.
An online questionnaire was used as the tool for collecting data from 370 accounting students of a private university from January to May 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic). The collected data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The study reveals that the characteristics of the online classroom, the instructor’s classroom management, fairness, students’ learning performance, and academic endurance are related to students’ academic performance. Meanwhile, the instructor’s enthusiasm, including helpfulness as well as his/her interaction with the students, and the students’ habits of self-study show no relation to the students’ performance. A major contribution of this finding is that it can help the instructors of a private university to develop and enhance the quality of online teaching and learning for accounting courses.
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