The research of the relationships among students’ locus of control, self-efficacy, core competency and learning achievement: the case of students in the accounting department

• Main Authors: Tzu-Lan Kuo, 郭姿蘭
• Other Authors: Jui-Chih Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15074988429550211932

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 會計學系碩士班 === 94 === Abstract： Companies usually use job performance to appraise employees’ presentation; schools normally use learning achievement to measure student’s performance. The motivation of this study is to investigate the reason why students'' academic performance is significant differed from each other in the same academic environment. It applied questionnaire survey to investigate the relationships among students’ personality, self-efficacy, core competency and their learning achievement in the accounting department of the university in Taipei, Taiwan. Hopefully, the findings may be able to provide a few suggestions for academic institute to improve students’ performance. The research findings suggest the more students are self-confident in learning process, the better study performance they have, especially when they are able to control their owns study situation. In addition, students’ core competencies have impacts on their learning attitude, study methods and interpersonal relationship. Students who are internal locus of control are more objective orientation and pressure resisting. Their academic achievement is better than the students who are external locus of control. They are willing to help and interact with other classmates. If they also have logical thinking ability, then would have better knowledge acquirement and integration skills.