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"The Goal" Project: A Group Assignment to Encourage Creative Thinking, Leadership Abilities and Communication Skills
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Huff, Patricia Lee – Accounting Education, 2014
The classroom assignment described in this paper, "The Goal" Project, gives students an opportunity to develop four of the skills and abilities required to be a successful accountant. In 1990, the Accounting Education Change Commission issued Position Statement Number One, Objectives of Education for Accountants. Appendix B of that…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Assignments, Group Activities, Communication Skills
The Development of a Diagnostic Tool to Limit Student Attrition through Programmed Instruction in Large Accounting Classes.
Fitzgerald, Daniel F.; Francis, Robert M. – 1978
After the determination that the Principles of Accounting course offered at Herkimer County Community College, New York, had a higher attrition rate than other introductory courses, a study was conducted to develop a computer-assisted diagnostic system which could identify the learning deficiences of accounting students and prescribe corrective…
Descriptors: Accounting, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Will They Use What You Taught Them? Course-Embedded Assessment of Accounting Students' Information Technology Self-Efficacy
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Moore, John W.; Mitchem, Cheryl E. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2004
This paper provides a model of course-embedded assessment for use in an undergraduate Accounting Information Systems course, and reports the results obtained from implementation. The profession's educational objectives are mapped to specific computer skills and assignments, to provide direct evidence of learning outcomes. Indirect evidence of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Accounting, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students