Abstract: This study compared the academic performances of male and female students in WASSCE Financial Accounting paper in two selected schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study adopted the descriptive analytical design. The census method was used to include all 761 Senior High School students who sat for the 2013 to 2016 WASSCE Financial Accounting papers. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) were used to address the research questions and inferential statistic (independent samples t-test) was used to test the hypothesis. The study found out that students’ had average academic performance in financial accounting over the four year period. The results further showed that the trend in students’ academic performance had not been stable over the periods under study. Finally, the study revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in the academic performance of male and female Financial Accounting students in Financial Accounting. It was recommended that Financial Accounting teachers should engage their students with more academic exercises. Also, better innovative ways should be adopted in teaching students to heighten their interest in the subject. School heads are to ensure that qualified and competent Financial Accounting teachers are employed to teach the subject. In addition, frequent seminars should be organised for the teachers to keep them abreast with current knowledge explosion in the subject as well as innovative ways of teaching the subject.
Keywords: Academic performance, Financial Accounting, Gender, West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: A SURVEY IN THE CAPE COAST METROPOLIS
Author: Emmanuel Kwesi Arthur, Thomas Sam, Gloria Asantewaa Osei, Gifty Kattah
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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