The objective of this study is to explore the stereotypes that students have about agribusiness students. We seek to determine the nature of these stereotypes and how they compare relative to marketing and accounting students. Our intent is to reveal the degree of fit of the agribusiness major within a college of business, as personality…

This quantitative study investigated the independent variables--anxiety, preconceived negative feelings, and self-efficacy--as predictors of the dependent variable, specifically, the performance of adult learners enrolled in introductory accounting courses. These results were further explored to decide whether perceived teaching style moderated…

This paper describes and compares the profiles of the top accounting programs in the United States as identified by "U.S. News and World Report" in 2004 with the profiles of the top accounting programs in the United States as identified by the "Accounting Degree Review" in 2014. The "Accounting Degree Review"'s list…

This paper examines primarily the courses in the accounting major and a portion of the business core of the best thirty accounting programs in the United States as identified by the Accounting Degree Review. A thorough examination of each school's web site has been conducted to gather current (2014) information concerning the requirements for a…

This study investigated how three factors impacted performance on cost-volume-profit homework problems: language, formula use, and instruction. Students enrolled in Introduction to Financial Accounting (the first principles of accounting course) and Managerial Accounting (the second principles of accounting course) from eight different US colleges…

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…