Executive Summary

Foreword

Preface

    0.1 Background

    0.2 Independent Learners and Intentional Learning

    0.3 Audience

    0.4 The Monograph

    0.5 Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - Accountants as Learners

    1.1 Accounting Professionals for the Future

    1.2 Learning to Learn

    1.3 Perspectives on Learning to Learn

    1.4 Learning as a Professional Responsibility

Chapter 2 - Intentional Learning

    2.1 Attributes of Intentional Learning

    2.2 The Intentional Learning Process

    2.3 Encouraging Intentional Learning

Chapter 3 - Individual Characteristics that Influence Learning

    3.1 Personal Characteristics

    3.2 Intellectual Development

    3.3 Learning Styles

    3.4 Motivation and Goals

Chapter 4 - Teaching and the Process of Learning

    4.1 Learning to Learn in the Curriculum

    4.2 Planning a Course to Include Learning to Learn

    4.3 Teaching Roles and Strategies for Learning

        4.3.1 Lecture

        4.3.2 Reading

        4.3.3 Discussion

        4.3.4 Group Learning

        4.3.5 Problems, Practice Sets, and Case Studies

        4.3.6 Writing

        4.3.7 Technology

    4.4 The Context of Learning

    4.5 Results and Evaluation

        4.5.1 Course Results and Classroom Assessment

        4.5.2 Student Outcomes and Evaluation

        4.5.3 Faculty and Course Evaluation

    4.6 Teaching for Learning

Chapter 5 - Changing Accounting Education

    5.1 Implementing Learning to Learn

    5.2 Problems to Consider

    5.3 Using Intentional Learning in Accounting Practice
    

GLOSSARY

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES

APPENDICES

    A. Learning to Learn

    B. Composite Profile of Capabilities Needed by Accounting Graduates

    C. Assessing Learning-to-Learn Skills

    D. Experiences from the Field

FIGURES

Chapter 1

    1.1 Expanded Competencies for the Practice of Accountancy

    1.2 Desired Student Outcomes of Revised Accounting Curricula

    1.3 Activities for Learning to Learn

    1.4 Candy's Profile of an Autonomous Learner

    1.5 Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

Chapter 2

    2.1 Attributes of Intentional Learning

    2.2 The Intentional Learning Process

Chapter 3

    3.1 Baxter Magolda's Epistemological Reflection Model

    3.2 Planning Matrix-Student Development

    3.3 Framework of Learning Style Research

    3.4 Instructional Sequence Based on Kolb

    3.5 Fuhrmann-Jacobs Model of Learners and Teachers

Chapter 4

    4.1 Elements of the Academic Plan

    4.2 The Intentional Teaching/Learning Process

    4.3 Cultivating the Attributes of Learning