THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY: ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OF TEHRAN UNIVERSITY)

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MASHAYEKHI BITA; MOHAMMAD ABADI MAHDI

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Journal: Woman in Development and Politics Year:2010 | Volume:8 | Issue:3 (30) Page(s): 73-91

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY: ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OF TEHRAN UNIVERSITY)

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MASHAYEKHI BITA | MOHAMMAD ABADI MAHDI | Issue Writer Certificate

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GENDERQ2

EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCEQ3

SPEARMAN’S MODEL OF ACADEMIC ABILITYQ3

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Accountants often think that their profession, just like other professions, not only recruits the most able as members, but by doing so, also seeks to truly reflect society in terms of GENDER, nationality, religion and even race (keef and Roush, 1997). For this reason, studies exploring GENDER differences in expectations and performance in accounting examinations and professional work are of vital importance to this field of study and its educators. These studies are more important when we consider statistics of the number of people enrolling in the field of accounting. According to last reports of science ministry, accounting courses are more populous than any another course in Iran. In such circumstances men no longer dominate accounting positions. Statistics indicate that women are beginning to take over the field. Over the past decade, there has been a rising surge in the admission of females into the field of accounting at colleges and universities. Thus researchers have been inspired to examine possible existing difference between men and women in terms of academic and professional performance.Since a similarity between Iran and other developing countries can be traced, this paper aims to describe the relationship between demographic variables (GENDER) and the EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE of accounting students enrolled in introductory accounting III. In other words we attempt to determine GENDER differences in academic performance of students.The research controls academic ability at the start of course because academic performance and ability, particularly in an inter-GENDER context, naturally brings with it theories of intelligence and their consequential implications. There is controversy in the education literature as to the actual structure of academic ability and performance. One school of thought puts forward models that are based solely on a number of independent specific abilities. Advocates of this view define ability as a collection of 150 functions for processing different kinds of information in different ways.Another school of thought supports the presence of a major common factor of general academic ability. Spearman (1904), as advocates of this view, suggests a strong common factor (G) that is often called “general intelligence”. This research uses general intelligence as common factor among EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE of students. Also, and as previously mentioned, academic ability is a control variable at the start of course. This control variable effectively puts all students on an equal footing. In fact, controlling for differences in initial ability and considering implications of previously mentioned theory, permits an estimate of how performance in the course is uniquely associated with GENDER characteristics. The research analyzes scores of some 80 students who were studying introductory accounting at management faculty of Tehran University. The teacher and curriculum resources remain the same. ANCOVA is used to analyze the statistics. The findings illustrate that girl's EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE is NOT significantly different from boy's EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE. The results, however, show that accounting has the potential and capability to be more attractive for women in future.

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MASHAYEKHI, BITA, & MOHAMMAD ABADI, MAHDI. (2010). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY: ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OF TEHRAN UNIVERSITY). WOMAN IN DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS (WOMEN'S RESEARCH), 8(3 (30)), 73-91. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/55515/en

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MASHAYEKHI BITA, MOHAMMAD ABADI MAHDI. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY: ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OF TEHRAN UNIVERSITY). WOMAN IN DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS (WOMEN'S RESEARCH)[Internet]. 2010;8(3 (30)):73-91. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/55515/en

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BITA MASHAYEKHI, and MAHDI MOHAMMAD ABADI, “THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY: ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OF TEHRAN UNIVERSITY),” WOMAN IN DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS (WOMEN'S RESEARCH), vol. 8, no. 3 (30), pp. 73–91, 2010, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/55515/en

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