Rewarding failure and effort

Article Abstract:

Accounting educators render students more good by rewarding effort rather than by valuing only results. It is common practice among teachers to commend only those students talented enough to meet their high standards while being displeased with those who fail to do so. Consequently, less capable students are apt to get discouraged, frustrated and unmotivated in exploring their potential. Educators should understand that crediting students for their effort, even though they had failed to produce desired outcomes, is not tantamount to lowering their standards. Instead, recognizing effort can get results. Students learn to take risks and to persevere the moment they succeed at something they had failed before. Moreover, students who learn to accept failure without associating it with defeat also learn the art of leadership.

Teaching, Business teachers, Motivation in education, Student motivation, Accounting teachers

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A critical look at questionnaires

Article Abstract:

Mail questionnaires require a high response rate or results may be unreliable. Researchers frequently use aggregate results of a mail survey with low return rates, and fail to indicate that these results may speak for half or less than half of the original addressees. The rate of nonresponse is highly significant and should be reported. To make a survey with low response more reliable, researchers should attempt to telephone the nonrespondents, or in some way recognize and account for possible meanings of nonresponse.

Analysis, Evaluation, Research, Mail surveys, Survey response rates, Surveys, Surveys (Studies), Questionnaires

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Teaching and learning with microcomputers

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The integration of microcomputers into accounting courses necessitates a change in class content and teaching style. Issues to consider include: the need for students to acquire basic computer literacy; the need to adapt the course to the software being used; and the need to balance the teaching of concepts and procedures. The use of microcomputers, though problematic, is nevertheless imperative given the advantages of computer knowledge in the business environment.

Usage, Microcomputers, Technology application, Study and teaching, Business education

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