9. Use of a Teaching
Case to Assess Reading and Writing Competencies in Accounting
Presenter: Mike Geary, University of Dayton
Description: Students must
develop unique skills in reading and writing to meet the demands of the
accounting profession. Accounting educators must design and implement programs
for assisting students to learn these skills. Once the programs are in place,
their effectiveness must be measured. This session focuses on a novel approach
to assessing these programs and the resultant competencies.
Teaching cases are often used to
facilitate learning and to help students develop skills in thinking, teamwork,
and communications. This session shows how a teaching case can also be an
assessment tool. In this experience, a teaching case is used not only to help
develop cognitive skills, but also to aid in the development of the unique
reading and writing competencies required of graduating accounting students.
The case is also used in the assessment of those competencies and the programs
designed to develop them.
Participants will learn how one
university uses a teaching case, originally developed for the AICPA
Professor/Practitioner Case Development Program, to assess accounting students'
reading and writing competencies. Participants will also learn how to adapt
this approach to their own institutions.
