Students' Approaches to Assessment in Accounting Education: The Unique Student Perspective

Kim Watty, Margaret Jackson and Xin Yu

Accounting Education, 2010, vol. 19, issue 3, 219-234

Abstract: In accounting education, most Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) research has investigated the relationship between students' performance and their approaches to learning. Relatively limited research has been conducted on how assessment practices influence the quality of students' learning from the students' perspective. This paper seeks to address this gap in the accounting education literature. The research is centred on a large Australian undergraduate accounting degree delivered in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Focus group interviews were conducted with students across the three locations. The research results reveal that: (1) it is the English competency of students that has the most important impact on students' completion of set assessment tasks and thus their approach to learning; (2) it is the way in which assessment is designed and written and the way lecturers convey their expectations about how assessment will be undertaken that is crucial to how students from various countries perform in that assessment; and (3) students' approaches to assessment and their preferred assessment tasks are not homogeneously based on cultural background.

Keywords: Accounting education; student approaches to learning (SAL); intercultural classroom; communication skills; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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