An Evaluation of Research Reporting Activities of Business Students.
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2006
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Ajibolade, S.O.
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Abstract
Preparing students for future career as managers or academics requires that they
acquire necessary research skills. This study investigates the extent to which business
undergraduate students are acquiring appropriate research skills, by focusing on an
important but relegated aspect of research activities: referencing in research project
reports.
The study is based on a content analysis of a quota sample of 500 students' research
projects and an analysis of questionnaire responses of 250 final year undergraduate
students in a business faculty of a Nigerian university. The study finds that standard
procedures for citation were not adopted by a large percentage (71.2%) of project
reports examined. Results also indicate a lack of adequate knowledge of citation
procedures, standard methods of referencing, importance of the requirement and the
implications of plagiarism. The study suggests more attention be paid to this aspect of
training. Students need to be more informed about proper rules of referencing, and for
greater effectiveness, business faculties/schools and even the universities may need to
formulate their own standards for presentation of references. A choice may be made of
or two major referencing styles to be adopted consistently in students' project report
presentation.
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Research , Business Student
Citation
Ajibolade,S.O. (2006) An Evaluation of Research Reporting Activities of Business Students. Global Journal of Accounting, Vol. 2, (1), p. 133 - 162