Influence of ICT-Supported Learning Environment Perceptions, Academic Ability, and Prior Educational Experience on Approaches to Learning for Accounting in Malaysian Secondary Schools

Abstract

This study reviews selected influencing factors on students’ approaches to learning for accounting in the ICT-supported learning environment, namely the students’ perceptions of learning environment, academic ability, and prior educational experience. The retrieved research reports reveal that the learning environment which is perceived as being tensed up with pressure and demands would influence students to adopt surface approaches to learning. However, the ICT-supported learning environment that contributed to the perceptions of interactivity and involvement, inquiry and investigation, authencity of learning, cooperation, and differentiation would stimulate deep approach to learning. Furthermore, academic ability could positively or negatively influence approaches to learning. Lastly, the availability and quality of prior educational experience could influence deep approach to learning, while problematic prior educational experience would lead to surface approach to learning.