The Determinant Factors Comprising Students’ Performance in The Digital Era

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10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

accounting education, students’ academic performance, digital era

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the determinants factors comprising accounting students’ academic performance at Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia. This research was used a survey method. Data were collected by administering questionnaires to 176 accounting students. The questionnaire consisted 33 questions related to three aspects, namely, demographic variables, institutional variables, and social-economic variables. The determinants factors affecting accounting students’ academic performance are prior knowledge of accounting, math and English grades, the use of internet as a source of learning, the adequacy of faculty facilities, part-time job, marital status and good family support. This research highlights that students prefer to use internet as a source of learning accounting rather than reading accounting textbooks or visiting the library. This indicates the strong influence of the digital era on the students. Thus, the accounting department needs to increase students’ accounting literacy through various ways. Lectures can improve the quality of learning process by optimizing the use of e-learning to encompass students’ high use of internet.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nurzi Sebrina
AU  - Vanica Serly
AU  - Salma Taqwa
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TI  - The Determinant Factors Comprising Students’ Performance in The Digital Era
BT  - Proceedings of the First Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA 2018)
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