INFLUENCE OF ENTRY GRADES IN ACCOUNTING AND MATHEMATICS ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN ACCOUNTING IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION

(A CASE STUDY OF NORTH-EAST, NIGERIA)

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ABSTRACT
This research work which is on the influence of students’ ordinary level entry grades in Mathematics and Principles of Accounting on Students’ Academic Performance in Advanced Financial Accounting was conducted with the main objective of determining the influence of O/L entry grades on business education students’ performance at the end of NCE programme. The study was conducted in nine colleges of education out which six colleges were sampled. In order to guide the study, five null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adapted the ex-post facto research design. The population for the study was Six hundred and Fifty students and a sample of two hundred and forty three students was drawn using proportionate sampling procedure. Data analysis was carried with means to answer all the research questions and Simple Logistics Regression was used to test null hypotheses one and two and t-test was used to test null hypotheses three, four and five. The study found out that credit and above entry grades at ordinary level in Mathematics and Principles of Accounting significantly influenced students’ academic performance in Advanced Financial Accounting. The study concluded that students with credit and above entry grades in mathematics and principles of accounting at O/L have the potentials of performing better in Advanced Financial Accounting in colleges of education in the North East, Nigeria than their counterparts with pass entry grades. The study made five recommendations among which was that orientation programmes be mounted at secondary schools and colleges of education to enlighten students on the need to develop interest in Mathematics and Principles of Accounting.