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Accounting and Finance Majors Outperform Other Majors on the Major Field Test in Business and the Comprehensive Business Exam: An Analysis of Exam Performance Drivers
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Fairchild, Chris; Hahn, William – Journal of Education for Business, 2020
While studies have found that both accounting and finance majors outperform other majors on the Major Field Test in Business (MFTB) and the Comprehensive Business Exam (CBE), research has not identified the drivers of this performance advantage. The authors examined multiyear MFTB and CBE scores and identified both business core course composition…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Accounting, Performance Factors, Business Administration Education
What Students Really Need to Learn
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Munson, Lynne – Educational Leadership, 2011
The nonprofit organization Common Core looked at curriculums, standards, and assessments in nine nations that consistently outrank the United States on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) to see whether differences in countries' PISA scores are due to differences in the content they teach. Findings revealed that top-performing…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Core Curriculum
Marginal Products of the Survey and Principles of Economics Courses: Empirical Information for Curriculum Decision Making.
Butler, Thomas – 1980
In order to determine the most appropriate economics prerequisites for selected courses at Thomas Nelson Community College, a study was conducted during Winter 1980 to compare the relative effectiveness of a one-quarter survey course in economics with a three-quarter principles course. The study involved the pre- and post-testing of students…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Age, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis