... was to trace the dynamic development of compassion longitudinally in accounting and business students during a three-credit English course at university. Design/methodology/approach The suggested method ensures the measurement invariance over time, deals with the first order latent variable, traces its...

...Guangyou Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how cooperative accounting education (CAE) programs jointly activated by an accounting institution and its cooperating CPA firms impact the students’ satisfaction with practising what they have learned in work placement. Design...

...Kevin M. Baird; Venkateshwaran Narayanan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a change in teaching structure in improving the performance of students in an introductory management accounting subject at an Australian institution. The change in structure involved...

...Maria Cadiz Dyball; Anna Reid; Philip Ross; Herbert Schoch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine accounting students' experience of compulsory group work. The paper hypothesises that a student‐centered style of teaching‐involving activities, like case studies and group‐based learning...

...Satoshi Sugahara; Kazumi Suzuki; Gregory Boland Purpose The objective of this paper is to explore undergraduate students' self‐efficacy of their generic skills in an attempt to identify whether a student's choice of a major in accounting develops these types of skills. Design/methodology...

..., learning and assessment, including student‐centred learning and Confucian heritage culture, is also discussed. A reflective approach is used where Säljö's five categories of student learning are used as the basis for informed reflection of the assessment used in the “new” academics' first semester...