In the paper, "Rhetoric or Reality? Do Accounting Education and Experience Increase Weighting on Environmental Performance in a Balanced Scorecard?" (Wynder, Wellner, and Reinhard 2013), researchers test whether business education and (controller) experience influence decision-makers to consider a longer-term perspective and,…

Describes the process of performance measurement: What is being measured, how it may be affected by factors (such as parent involvement) beyond the school's control, what measures of performance might be appropriate, and what directions research might take that will increase knowledge of those things that affect (or drive) the learning process.…

After students take their first exam in an accounting course, tax accounting and intermediate accounting in this case, their reactions to their test scores may be varied. This is their first major assessment of how they have performed in the class. The students in the class near the high end of the grading scale are going to be satisfied with…