More experienced professors, more learning opportunities? Relationships between instructor's traits and students' academic performance in financial accounting courses of a Spanish University

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Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester

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The main objective of this paper is to analyse how the characteristics of professors affect students’ academic performance. To do so, we analyse a sample of recollected data from 3219 students and twelve professors from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. A linear regression model, adopting the censored least absolute deviations model, was applied. Results indicate that the quality of teaching and the publication of a greater number of articles in indexed journals in the ISI Web of Science and Econlit databases have a positive and significant influence on students’ academic performance. On the contrary, dedicating more lecture time to the subject of Financial Accounting in comparison with the total amount of lecture time, working as an adjunct professor and teaching experience negatively influence students’ academic performance.

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Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Associate professor in the Business Department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since September 30th 2011, she has been Secretary of the Centre for Studies and Research in Humanities, an institution associated to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on analyzing the financial and social performance of mutual funds, pension funds and firms. She also does research about students’ academic performance. Her research papers have been published in Management Decision, Journal of Cleaner Production, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Revista de Estudios de Economía, Applied Economics, Educación XX1, and RBGN-Review of Business Management, among others. She is a referee for Studies in Higher Education, Business Ethics: A European Review, Sustainability, Journal of Cleaner Production, Management Decision, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, among others. She is a member of Financial Management Association International. Email: carmenpilar.marti@uab.cat

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Martí-Ballester, C.-P. (2018). More experienced professors, more learning opportunities? Relationships between instructor’s traits and students’ academic performance in financial accounting courses of a Spanish University. Ciencias Sociales Y Educación, 6(12), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.22395/csye.v6n12a2

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