Author(s)

Shizheng Li ¹, Xiaoxue Zhang ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Finance, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, China
² School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, China

Corresponding Author

Shizheng Li

ABSTRACT

The revised ACES-college was administered to 191 students from a Finance and Economics university to evaluate their academic competence. The regression models based on data collected through the scale showed that, in general, the higher the academic competence, the higher the GPA. However, when academic competence was split into seven different types, only interpersonal skills and learning motivation had a significant effect on GPA. We also found that female students had an advantage over male students in obtaining better scores, and the massive online teaching caused by Covid-19 had brought extra learning obstacles to underachievers. The above findings warn that colleges and universities should pay special attention to cultivating academic enablers of undergraduate students and deepening their understanding of gender differences in students' academic performance.

KEYWORDS

Academic competence, learning outcomes, higher education, quantile regression

CITE THIS PAPER

Shizheng Li, Xiaoxue Zhang, Evaluate Academic Competence for College Students in China: A Case Study. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 32-37. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.050905.

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