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C. Andrew Lafond; Kristin Wentzel – Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 2021
This chapter describes a service learning (SL) project implemented in an upper-level undergraduate "Cost Accounting" course to enhance the coverage of costing concepts. Employing a variation of Lafond, Leauby, and Wentzel (2017) SL task, students actively gather cost data for a business venture by preparing peanut butter and jelly…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Accounting, Undergraduate Study, Courses
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Dema, Chimi; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
This one-group pre- and post-test quasi-experimental study endeavored to investigate whether learner autonomy was developed with implementing language-in-talk log assignments as a monitored self-study task in a university English conversation course (890-020 English Conversation). Eighty-eight Thai second-year undergraduate accounting majors at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Independent Study
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Gusc, Joanna; van Veen-Dirks, Paula – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: Sustainability is one of the newer topics in the accounting courses taught in university teaching programs. The active learning assignment as described in this paper was developed for use in an accounting course in an undergraduate program. The aim was to enhance teaching about sustainability within such a course. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Sustainability, Active Learning
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Moilanen, Sinikka – Accounting Education, 2017
The present study contributes to accounting education literature by describing context-specific conceptions of learning related to case assignments, and by exploring the associations between the conceptions of learning, students' characteristics and performance. The data analysed consist of 1320 learning diaries of 336 students, connected with…
Descriptors: Accounting, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Grades (Scholastic)
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Powell, Lisa; Singh, Nishani – Accounting Education, 2016
Plagiarism in higher education is a widespread and complex issue. Students' understanding of plagiarism differs as a result of combining their prior learning about referencing with their current experience of institutional policies and generic resources. Plagiarism was identified as a major learning issue in a core second-year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Plagiarism
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Chamizo-Gonzalez, Julian; Cano-Montero, Elisa Isabel; Urquia-Grande, Elena; Muñoz-Colomina, Clara Isabel – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper are twofold. First, to disclose whether accounting students who participate more in online activities proposed by the teacher achieve better learning outcomes. Second, to identify which virtual learning activities achieve improved outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Data mining is a computer-based tool devoted…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Accounting, Learning Analytics, Teaching Methods
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Ryan, Rhonda – Accounting Education, 2013
To varying degrees, all instructors have experienced the frustration of receiving student assignments that have clearly been commenced and completed, at a very superficial level, just days prior to the submission date. The lack of engagement in the assignment task is often symptomatic of a lack of real engagement in the unit as a whole. This…
Descriptors: Accounting, Assignments, Learner Engagement, Planning
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Perera, Luckmika; Nguyen, Hoa; Watty, Kim – Accounting Education, 2014
This paper investigates the effectiveness (measured using assignment and examination performance) of an assessment design incorporating formative feedback through summative tutorial-based assessments to improve student performance, in a second-year Finance course at an Australian university. Data was collected for students who were enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Summative Evaluation, Tutorial Programs
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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
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Hassan, Omaima A. G.; Fox, Alison; Hannah, Gwen – Accounting Education, 2014
Self- and peer-assessment of student work is an area that is under-researched in the accounting education literature, although the subject area of study seems to influence the results obtained in prior studies. The current study contributes to the literature by examining the accuracy and construct validity of self- and peer-assessment by…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Accounting, Finance Occupations
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Daly, Anne; Hoy, Simon; Hughes, Mark; Islam, Jesmin; Mak, Anita S. – Accounting Education, 2015
This paper reports on the processes and outcomes of an experiential learning intervention designed to improve intercultural skills in accounting students by building cross-cultural alliances in culturally mixed groups. The cultural backgrounds of students in accounting units are diverse, and it has proved difficult to break down barriers to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Cultural Awareness, Cross Cultural Training
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Turner, Martin; Baskerville, Rachel – Accounting Education, 2013
This study examines how to support accounting students to experience deep learning. A sample of 81 students in a third-year undergraduate accounting course was studied employing a phenomenographic research approach, using ten assessed learning tasks for each student (as well as a focus group and student surveys) to measure their experience of how…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learner Engagement, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking
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Aly, Ibrahim – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This study compared the academic achievement between undergraduate students taking an introductory managerial accounting course online (N = 104) and students who took the same course in a hybrid classroom setting (N = 203). Student achievement was measured using scores from twelve weekly online assignments, two major online assignments, a final…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Introductory Courses, Online Courses
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Tan, Andrea; Ferreira, Aldónio – Accounting Education, 2012
This study investigates the influence of the use of accounting software in teaching activity-based costing (ABC) on the learning process. It draws upon the Theory of Planned Behaviour and uses the end-user computer satisfaction (EUCS) framework to examine students' satisfaction with the ABC software. The study examines students' satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Clikeman, Paul M. – Accounting Education, 2012
This case provides auditing students with an opportunity to perform substantive tests of inventory using realistic-looking source documents. The learning objectives are to help students understand: (1) the procedures auditors perform in order to test inventory; (2) the source documents used in auditing inventory; and (3) the types of misstatements…
Descriptors: Accounting, Audits (Verification), Facility Inventory, Active Learning
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