Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Business, Accounting, and Economics, ICBAE 2022, 10-11 August 2022, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

The Use of The Rasch Model on The Instruments of Accounting Students' Attitude and Interest in The Accounting Profession

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2320886,
        author={Meita  Larasati and Sumardi  Sumardi and Elda  Anggraeni and Nuraini Diah Maulina and Aprilia  Delawati},
        title={The Use of The Rasch Model on The Instruments of Accounting Students' Attitude and Interest in The Accounting Profession},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Business, Accounting, and Economics, ICBAE 2022, 10-11 August 2022, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICBAE},
        year={2022},
        month={8},
        keywords={attitude interest accounting profession rasch model},
        doi={10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2320886}
    }
    
  • Meita Larasati
    Sumardi Sumardi
    Elda Anggraeni
    Nuraini Diah Maulina
    Aprilia Delawati
    Year: 2022
    The Use of The Rasch Model on The Instruments of Accounting Students' Attitude and Interest in The Accounting Profession
    ICBAE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2320886
Meita Larasati1,*, Sumardi Sumardi1, Elda Anggraeni1, Nuraini Diah Maulina1, Aprilia Delawati1
  • 1: Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr Hamka
*Contact email: meita.larasati@uhamka.ac.id

Abstract

This study aims to validate the instruments related to the attitudes and interests of accounting students towards the accounting profession. The sample of this research is accounting students by distributing questionnaires, then analyzed the data using Winstep Rasch. There are 120 remaining data after deducting 86 outlier data which are analyzed again using Winstep Rasch software. The results of this study showed the value of Cronbach's alpha (KR-20) was 0.95. The most difficult question element to be agreed upon by the respondents was the Q10 item which was included in the attitude instrument, namely the question “Accountants are boring people” with a logit element value of +3.33.