Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business Courses
The purpose of this article is to explore the heterogeneity among undergraduate Norwegian business students. This is made visible by the students’ choice of subjects in their third year. The chosen methodology is the ordinary least square (OLS) regression model. By using dummy variables depending...
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| description | The purpose of this article is to explore the heterogeneity among undergraduate
Norwegian business students. This is made visible by the students’
choice of subjects in their third year. The chosen methodology is the ordinary
least square (OLS) regression model. By using dummy variables depending
on the preferred discipline, we can analyse what impact the composition of
students will have on their performance in the compulsory courses during the
two first years. The students who are highest ranked by letter grades tend
to select further studies in finance and accounting subjects. One should be
aware of this in the design of study programmes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8b5c5c1e01a424e93233d551c5632532022-12-21T21:11:15ZengInternational School for Social and Business StudiesInternational Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning2232-51072232-56972020-06-019195107Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business CoursesLeiv Opstad0Torbjørn Årethun1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayWestern Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayThe purpose of this article is to explore the heterogeneity among undergraduate Norwegian business students. This is made visible by the students’ choice of subjects in their third year. The chosen methodology is the ordinary least square (OLS) regression model. By using dummy variables depending on the preferred discipline, we can analyse what impact the composition of students will have on their performance in the compulsory courses during the two first years. The students who are highest ranked by letter grades tend to select further studies in finance and accounting subjects. One should be aware of this in the design of study programmes.http://www.issbs.si/press/ISSN/2232-5697/9_95-107.pdfbusiness studentsmajorperformancegenderquantitative analysislearningknowledge |
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| title | Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business Courses |
| title_full | Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business Courses |
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| title_short | Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business Courses |
| title_sort | skills gender and performance matter when undergraduate business students choose specialisation within business courses |
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