Beyond just desserts: The gendered nature of the connection between effort and achievement for accounting students

Timothy J. Fogarty and Paul M. Goldwater

Journal of Accounting Education, 2010, vol. 28, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The paper evaluates gender differences in the achievement of accounting students using data from students at a large public institution in the USA. Whether one gender outperforms the other is a question that has remained open in the literature, primarily because measures have been confounded by rewards for effort. This paper finds that in an environment where effort is not materially rewarded per se, but serves as a significant means to prepare for grade-bearing evaluations, females do not significantly outperform males. Female student do, however, exert a greater amount of effort. Measures used in this study were assembled by the computer software that managed the student interface, providing practice questions, quizzes, and examinations. Implications for educational choices made by accounting instructors are offered.

Keywords: Gender; Student performance; Student effort; Evaluation; Computerized instructional interface (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2010.09.001

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