ASSESSING THE CAUSES OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION STUDENTS AND LECTURERS POOR PERFORMANCE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN BAYELSA STATE
Keywords:
Academic Performance, Accounting Education, Accounting Education Lecturers, Accounting Education Students, Causes, Tertiary Institutions, Job PerformanceAbstract
The study assessed the causes of accounting education Students and lecturers poor Performance in tertiary institutions in Bayelsa State. The population covers all accounting education lecturers and final Year accounting education students in tertiary institutions in Bayelsa State. A sample size of 65 respondents was used. There was no sampling because the population was manageable. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. A self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts in measurement and evaluation in the Department of Educational Foundations and two in accounting education in the Faculty of Education, Niger Delta University. Test re-test technique was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. This was done by administering the instrument to 10 students and 10 lecturers outside the study area in Bayelsa State. The instrument was readministered after two weeks to the same respondents. The collected data was analyzed with the Pearson Product Moment Correlation to obtain a reliability Coefficient of 0.81. Mean and Standard deviation were use to analyze the data, while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed significant different between the accounting education students and the accounting education lecturers mean scores responses. The study concluded that accounting education students and lecturers performance in tertiary institutions differed significantly. The study recommended conducive accounting education teaching and learning environment to eliminate students and lecturers poor performance to enhance qualitative and quantitative efficient outputs.
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