Correlation of Teachers' Confidence and Teaching Techniques to Accounting Interest of Students

Abstract

As accounting profession becomes significantly popular and highly in-demand today, many students have shown interest to become an accountant. The College of Accounting Education of the University of Mindanao, through its open education philosophy, caters to thousands of students who dream of becoming an accounting professional yet only few survive and be able to graduate due to difficult academic requirements and stringent retention policy. The purpose of this study was to determine the statistical relationship of teacher’s confidence and teaching techniques to student’s accounting interest. The study used a descriptive-correlation design and survey method as means to gathering relevant data. One hundred students, both accountancy and accounting technology, of the University of Mindanao were selected through cluster sampling technique to participate in the research. With a .05 level of significance, the statistical tools employed were the mean and Pearson-r. The study revealed that the teacher’s confidence has negligible relationship to the accounting interest of students, while the teacher’s teaching techniques showed statistical correlation to student accounting interest.