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International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review Vol. 3(7), pp. 197-203. August, 2015. ISSN: 2360-7866 DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2015.042
Full Length Research
Relationship between Accounting Entry Grades and Students’ Performance in Accounts in Federal Colleges of Education in North-West Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria
Ladan, S.L.; Adeshina, T. J. and Udoh, A. A.
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Accepted 27 August 2015
The study
investigated the Relationship between Accounting Entry Grades And
Students’ Performance in Accounts in Federal Colleges of Education in
North West Geo-political zone, Nigeria. As a guide to the research,
three research questions were raised and three Null hypotheses were
formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive design
was used for the study. Nine hundred and fifty N.C.E. 1Business
Education students of five Federal Colleges of Education were used as
population and sample for the study. First semester Principles of
Accounts results and students’ accounting entry grades were used as
primary data. Frequency distribution tables, mean, standard deviation
and percentages were used to answer research questions. Pearson Product
Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) statistic was employed to test
null hypotheses 1, 2, 3, and 4. Z-test statistic was used to test null
hypothesis 5, all at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the
study revealed that students’ accounting entry grades of credit had
significant relationship with their performance in Principles of
Accounts. The result further revealed that there was no significant
relationship between students’ accounting entry grades of ordinary pass
and their performance in Principles of Accounts. The study also revealed
that there was no significant relationship between students’ accounting
entry grade of fail and their performance in Principles of Accounts.
Based on these findings it was concluded that good accounting entry
grade enhances good academic performance, and good academic leads to
higher accounting grades in tertiary institution. It was therefore
recommended, among others, that credit pass in financial accounting at
secondary schools should be made a minimum entry grade requirement into
N.C.E. 1 Cite This Article As: Ladan SL, Adeshina TJ, Udoh AA (2015). Relationship between Accounting Entry Grades and Students’ Performance in Accounts in Federal Colleges of Education in North-West Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria . Inter. J. Acad. Res. Educ. Rev. 3(7): 197-203.
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