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Mbawuni, Joseph; Nimako, Simon Gyasi – World Journal of Education, 2015
This study principally investigates job-related and personality factors that determine Ghanaian accounting students' intentions to pursue careers in accounting. It draws on a rich body of existing literature to develop a research model. Primary data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 516 final year accounting students in a Ghanaian…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Accounting, Undergraduate Students
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Glynn, Shawn M.; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Brickman, Peggy – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
A theoretical model of nonscience majors' motivation to learn science was tested by surveying 369 students in a large-enrollment college science course that satisfies a core curriculum requirement. Based on a social-cognitive framework, motivation to learn science was conceptualized as having both cognitive and affective influences that foster…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, College Science, Careers, Structural Equation Models