Evaluating Assessed Group-work in a Second-year Management Accounting Subject

Maria Cadiz Dyball, Anna Reid, Philip Ross and Herbert Schoch

Accounting Education, 2007, vol. 16, issue 2, 145-162

Abstract: This paper discusses the perceptions on the part of a large cohort of Sydney-based second year university accounting students of the benefits of group-work in developing transferable skills in teamwork, self-management, and planning and organising. The Australian accounting profession and business employers have identified these skills as lacking in accounting graduates. A questionnaire was administered to obtain students' perceptions of assessed group-work and the results were compared with three other similar studies of smaller cohorts of students. Overall, students considered assessed group-work to be a positive experience and a vehicle to develop transferable skills. The paper elaborates on elements in effective group-work design and students' comments which raise the need to integrate and scaffold assessed group-work in the accounting curriculum.

Keywords: Group work; assessment; students' perceptions; management accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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