D&D: Prediction of Online Business Management Students’ Academic Achievement: The Role of Soft Skills in Learning

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Short Description

Soft skills are important in the business world and they need to be emphasized in online MBA programs. The purpose of the study was to understand online business management students’ set of soft skills particularly related to their learning process and investigate whether academic achievement could be significantly predicted by soft skills. The preliminary results (without Spring 2016 data) indicated students demonstrated soft skills but they could not significantly predict academic achievement.

Authors

• Hungwei Tseng, Jacksonville State University

• Xiang Yi, Jacksonville State University

• Hsin-Te Yeh, Metropolitan State University of Denver