Accounting professionals have consistently called for educators to develop curriculum designed to encourage students to develop intellectual skills. The purpose of this action research study was to develop and implement an instructional method that requires intermediate financial accounting (IFA) students to consistently practice higher order…

In this dissertation, I create a navigable path between the learning sciences, accounting information systems (AIS), and analytics education. After considering the context of AIS and accounting analytics education, I present a learning sciences design framework, apply the design principles, and study their implementation and success in an…

The effects of instructional fading using completion problems on student performance were investigated in this study. Instructional fading is the gradual withdrawal of the amount of assistance provided to the student and was accomplished in this study using completion problems. They were used to gradually transition the student from completely…