Teachers’ perspectives on student underperformance in Leaving Certificate Accounting
dc.contributor.author | Murphy, John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-16T12:12:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-16T12:12:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13012/200 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study examines the reasons for student underperformance in Leaving Certificate Accounting. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory was used to perceive and distill the literature. Thirty-minute, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five experienced post primary Accounting teachers. Thematic analysis drew out three key and several sub-themes. Student underperformance can be attributed to approximately thirty reasons including mobile phone distraction, lack of self-belief, absenteeism, reasons that would not be lost on many people. What is far more interesting is that the reasons for underperformance can be broadly attributed to interactions between stakeholders across a range of ecological systems: The home; The School and the government. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Leaving Certificate Accounting | en_US |
dc.subject | Thematic analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Student underperformance | en_US |
dc.title | Teachers’ perspectives on student underperformance in Leaving Certificate Accounting | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
html.description.abstract | This study examines the reasons for student underperformance in Leaving Certificate Accounting. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory was used to perceive and distill the literature. Thirty-minute, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five experienced post primary Accounting teachers. Thematic analysis drew out three key and several sub-themes. Student underperformance can be attributed to approximately thirty reasons including mobile phone distraction, lack of self-belief, absenteeism, reasons that would not be lost on many people. What is far more interesting is that the reasons for underperformance can be broadly attributed to interactions between stakeholders across a range of ecological systems: The home; The School and the government. | en_US |