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Wright, Susan L.; Chitavi, Michael – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
This paper describes a process for evaluating student learning at the course-level. Course-level data is used to inform continuous improvement of program-level assessment. The sample consists of direct and indirect measures related to 101 students enrolled in a principles of financial accounting course. Direct measures indicate that most students…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Data Collection, Academic Achievement
Barbara Woods McElroy; Bruce H. Lubich – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case describes the research process followed by two professors who chose to study student outcomes in our online accounting classrooms. Motivated by the discovery of a possible anomaly in classroom outcomes, we decided to look further. We thought the anomaly might be explained by student procrastination. If our perception proved true, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Accounting, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Hutchins, Tiffany L.; Gerety, Katherine W.; Mulligan, Moira – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This study (a) gathered information about the kinds of dysphagia management services school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide, (b) examined the attitudes of SLPs related to dysphagia management, (c) compared the responses of SLPs on the basis of their experience working in a medical setting, and (d) investigated the…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Accounting, Eating Habits, Disabilities
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Hocking, Deborah E.; Hocking, Ralph T. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2009
For many years the accounting profession has called for a change in the way accounting classes are taught. The AICPA in its Core Competency Framework (1999) has identified three core competency areas that are vital to future success. In this paper we present one successful way to meet this challenge by using a holistic approach to service learning…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Educational Change, Core Curriculum
Denison, Dwight V.; Stiefel, Leanna; Hartman, William; Deegan, Michele Moser – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2009
A long standing debate among policymakers as well as researchers is whether and how funding affects the quality of education. Often missing from the discussion is information about the costs of providing education at the school level and below, yet such information could impart a better indication of the linkages between outcomes and resources…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Costs, Evaluation Methods
Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, DC. – 1998
This report presents results of a survey of fund raising activities of 181 colleges and universities in North America during 1996-97. The survey was based on standards developed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The data are presented in two parts. First, summaries of the reported data, broken down into eight…
Descriptors: Accounting, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Fund Raising
Schroeder, Nicholas – Journal of Business Education, 1985
Through a research project, the author found that the attitudes of college accounting students toward high school accounting as the starting point for an accounting education and also the introductory financial accounting grades of college students are often closely associated with extensive accounting coursework completed prior to college. (CT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, College Students, Data Analysis
Barnes, Michael W.; And Others – 1993
This study sought to determine if private colleges and universities are accurately reporting budgetary data to the Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS) of the U.S. Department of Education following guidelines issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the National Association of College and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Diversity (Institutional)
Bock, Almon C., II – School Business Affairs, 1983
Asserts the importance of each school business official's responsibility to accurately report the school's financial situation to the state legislature. Uses Minnesota's 33 area vocational technical institutes to illustrate the application of statewide uniform financial accounting and reporting standards to Minnesota public school districts. (JBM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Bookkeeping, Case Studies, Data Collection
Cool, David W. – School Business Affairs, 1983
Addresses the need of school districts in many states to decide on an appropriate mingling of centralization and decentralization in the operation of activity funds. Argues for analysis of activity fund operation through a breakdown into such major components as policy, the accounting system, and reporting and auditing. (JBM)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Bookkeeping, Centralization, Data Collection
Morgan, Robert L., Ed.; And Others – 1974
The document contains 12 papers. Two of the papers present opening and closing remarks to the conference. The other 10 deal with their State's management information system (MIS) in vocational education. The 10 papers are clustered according to whether they are primarily descriptive of student accounting (four papers), manpower supply and demand…
Descriptors: Accounting, Conference Reports, Data Collection, Financial Support
Foley, Walter J. – 1968
The CardPac System of Educational Accounting project developed instruments and procedures for collecting information about aspects of the elementary and secondary educational programs in Iowa. This project included the development of a bank of educational information that will transcribe, integrate, and store information centrally for purposes of…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
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Bunn, Phyllis C.; Barfit, Laurie A.; Cooper, Jan – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2005
The purpose of this paper was to determine what communication skills are considered most important by employers in the accounting profession as well as to determine the general office, income tax, and bookkeeping software packages used by CPA firms in Mississippi. The data was collected by means of an electronic five-point Likert-type survey…
Descriptors: Accounting, Entry Workers, Communication Skills, Data Collection
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1981
The adequacy of the Department of Education's automated information system for the Guaranteed Student Loan Program was assessed. The review conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office focused on the department's efforts and plans to correct system deficiencies, the reasonableness and propriety of major system costs incurred, and the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Computer Oriented Programs, Contracts, Data Collection
Coffey, Amanda – 1994
This paper explores the dynamic nature of the power relationship within social research, concentrating on the production and reproduction of a text of the field and focusing on the processes of recording, writing, and reading. It draws on ethnographic research conducted in a United Kingdom office of an international firm of chartered accountants…
Descriptors: Accountants, Accounting, Authors, College Graduates