Recently, several countries have attempted to encourage life-long learning and to widen university accessibility to include a wider mix of students. In Australia, numerous new pathways with the Vocational Education and Training sector have been established for these purposes. This study reports on the effects that two variables, gender and age, had on the university academic performance of students who had taken a Vocational Education and Training pathway to an Australian university using whole cohort data (n = 542) for Vocational Education and Training pathway students enrolled between 2005 and 2012; two-way between-group analyses of variance were conducted to assess the effects of both gender and age on undergraduate academic achievement. Age and gender were both related to students’ academic performance, with higher performance among female students and groups of older students. There were also differences in the effects that gender had on academic performance depending upon age group.

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职业教育与培训途径大学生学业成绩及性别和年龄的影响

最近，一些国家试图鼓励终身学习并扩大大学的可及性，以包括更广泛的学生组合。在澳大利亚，职业教育和培训部门为此建立了许多新途径。本研究使用职业教育和培训途径的整个队列数据 (n = 542) 报告了性别和年龄这两个变量对通过职业教育和培训途径进入澳大利亚大学的学生的大学学业成绩的影响2005年至2012年间入学的学生；进行了双向组间方差分析，以评估性别和年龄对本科学业成绩的影响。年龄和性别都与学生的学习成绩有关，在女学生和年龄较大的学生群体中表现更好。根据年龄组的不同，性别对学业成绩的影响也存在差异。