The Relationships between Academic Self-efficacy and Academic Achievement for Business Finance Course
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This study is to ascertain the relationships between an academic self-efficacy and academic achievement among the undergraduate students who are enrolled in this Business Finance course. Besides, an academic self-efficacy is divided into three dimensions as persistence, self-determination and self-reliance which could affect either an academic success or failure of the students. In additional, the past record has shown that the students who have no confidence in their academic capabilities, they tend to withdraw from this course before ending the semester. Therefore, there are two research objectives. First, it is to explore the relationships of each dimension of self-efficacy towards the academic achievement. Second, it is to find solution for increasing their academic self-efficacies. Consequently, the student would more persist in studying until end of semester and withdrawer rate will be decreased. The data were in-class collection of 94 students and they were then analysed by using Multiple Regression analysis with moderating effect of academic background of Art and Science major. The research findings are persistence and self-reliance have positive and significant effect toward academic achievement, and an interaction effect is significant then moderation is present.
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