Tuesday Effective Learning Strategies Forum
Poster Sessions
Poster Session 1
Creating a Value-Added Learning Environment in the First Accounting (Managerial) Course: Assessing Student Perceptions
Presenters:
Mary Jo Billiot, New Mexico State University
Russell Calk, New Mexico State University
Description:
Create a value-added learning environment in the first accounting course (managerial) by including activities that appeal to students' different information-gathering preferences. Assess students' perceptions of learning activities in order to affect performance in your accounting course.
Poster Session 2
Improving Classroom Participation with Recurrent Feedback
Presenter:
Carol A. Hartley, Providence College
Description:
Trying to find ways to improve classroom participation? Trying to open up talented introverts and encourage more participation? This poster session will demonstrate how features found in common online systems may be used to improve students' participation in class discussions.
Poster Session 3
Top Tips to Increase Classroom Participation
Presenter:
Carole Shook, University of Arkansas
Description:
In the classroom, don't you dislike silence and the desire for the answers to be provided? This poster session will provide specific tips to increase participation through active learning techniques. Increasing classroom participation creates student enthusiasm and retention of material.
Poster Session 4
Increasing Student Learning and Participation
Presenter:
Marianne M. Rexer, Wilkes University
Description:
Would you like to use technology to increase student performance, increase the number of students completing their homework, and increase student enjoyment of your course? All at the same time? It's been done for one course. Learn how for yourself.
Poster Session 5
Make Use of Psychometrics to Help Teach and Test Managerial Accounting
Presenter:
Brian O'Doherty, East Carolina University
Description:
One of the benefits of using machine-graded exams is the incredibly rich analytical insight that can be garnered from the typical psychometric scoring routine. This session will show you, and encourage you, to use this power well.
Poster Session 6
Creating Online Lectures
Presenter:
Joann R. Segovia, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Description:
This session demonstrates online lectures developed through the use of Tegrity® WebLearner, an integrated software solutions for creating effective multimedia e-learning by automatically capturing audio, screen recording, and instructor's writing, pointing, and highlighting normally seen in class.
Poster Session 7
Teaching the First Step in Problem Solving: Fact-Finding through Role Play
Presenters:
Charles J. F. Leflar, University of Arkansas
Deborah W. Thomas, University of Arkansas
Description:
What's wrong with most written case problems? They provide all the facts needed to arrive at a solution. Here is an effective way to give students practice at fact-finding—recruit a colleague to play the role of the client. Students practice interview skills—and have fun as they do.
Poster Session 8
Using a Variety of Teaching Tools to Help Students Learn to Apply and Explain a New Accounting Standard
Presenter:
Sandra Roberson, Furman University
Description:
Learn how to implement an integrated multi-part project using a variety of teaching tools that challenges your students to read and understand an accounting standard, apply it to "their" company, and ultimately explain it to "their" nonaccountant CEO.
Poster Session 9
Virtual Canvas—Integrating Technology into Classrooms
Presenters:
Themin Suwardy, Singapore Management University
Leong Kwong Sin, Singapore Management University
Description:
Technologies that actually work! We will share experiences from our Virtual Canvas pilot project incorporating Tablet PCs, Office 2003 Systems, wireless projectors, and other pen applets. Students and faculty have benefited greatly from more dynamic interactions in and outside class.
Poster Session 10
Integrating Online Content within a Learning Community
Presenters:
Asha George, Savannah State University
George Joseph, Savannah State University
Maliece Whatley, Savnnah State University
Description:
Do you wish to create a dynamic learning community using web-based education? Seamless integration of activities in a learning community of students, faculty, and practitioners, with online education can enhance student involvement while developing personalized online learning content.
Poster Session 11
Delivering Online Accounting Education in an Innovative Graduate Program
Presenters:
Roberta J. Cable, Pace University
Patricia Healy, Pace University
Description:
The e.MBA@PACE is an interdisciplinary collaborative learning approach to distance education on the graduate level. This poster session will describe specific teaching activities that support the accounting education in this truly innovative program.
Poster Session 12
Preparing Students for Situated Action with Business Simulations
Presenters:
A. Faye Borthick, Georgia State University
Carol W. Springer, Georgia State University
Description:
To engage students in developing accounting expertise, immerse them in rich contexts that simulate real business dilemmas prompting sense making from different perspectives and a variety of data sources. Examples are provided for introductory accounting, cost accounting, and information systems.
Poster Session 13
Improving Student Performance and Various Process Skills through the Use of the Homework Check Cooperative Learning Model
Presenter:
Robert E. Holtfreter, Central Washington University
Description:
Attend this session to learn how to effectively learn the "homework check" cooperative learning model in your classroom in order to increase student performance and enhance leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, and strategic planning skills.
Poster Session 14
Learning Strategic Cost Management by Developing Real-Life Case and Managing Team Dynamics
Presenter:
E. Daniel Shim, Sacred Heart University
Description:
The session will:
- Demonstrate how to enhance Students' Learning by Doing (topics include Activity-Based Costing and Balanced Scorecard).
- Show how to manage students' team project and its dynamics within a semester.
- Share experience of the peer (students) evaluation system and its merits.
- Present examples of the real-life cases developed by the students.
Poster Session 15
Assessment and Accounting Education
Presenter:
William B. Joyce, Eastern Illinois University
Description:
- Classroom Assessment
Integration, Motivation, Establishment
- Traditional Tests
Selected and Constructed Response
- Alternative Assessments
Authentic, Performance, Portfolio
- Grading and Reporting Performance
Purposes and Components
- Computers and Assessment
Electronic Portfolios and Record Keeping
Poster Session 16
Integrating Audit Practice, Technology, and Audit Theory in an Advanced Audit Course
Presenters:
Violet C. Rogers, Stephen F. Austin State University
Jack R. Ethridge, Stephen F. Austin State University
Description:
The session focuses on classroom and homework methods that aid integration of practice, technology, and theory in an advanced audit course setting. Examples of unexpected and common student/practice disconnects are highlighted in the presentation. Best Practices are also highlighted.
Poster Session 17
Strategic Integration of Certified Fraud Examiner Videos into the Accounting Curriculum
Presenters:
Carol Sullivan, Lamar University
Howell Lynch, Lamar University
Gisele Moss, Lamar University
Description:
Educators attending this poster presentation will gain knowledge about integrative education, the ACFE resources, and the placement of specific videos in specific accounting core courses. The goal is to make the fraud/ethics coverage more "real-world" throughout the accounting curriculum.
Poster Session 18
Using Active Learning Strategies in the Introductory Accounting Course
Presenter:
Robert L. Webster, Ouachita Baptist University
Description:
This active learning session will demonstrate ways to enhance your classroom teaching that will heighten student interest and learning. The use of active learning exercises in class may also improve the course and instructor evaluations rendered by students.
Poster Session 19
Blended Learning: Is It as Good as Traditional Classroom Delivery?
Presenters:
Clement C. Chen, University of Michigan–Flint
Keith T. Jones, Eastern Kentucky University
Description:
Are you considering implementing online education or blended learning in the near future? Do partially online courses address the potential shortcomings of fully online courses? Find out how student satisfaction with the inputs and processes differs between traditional in-class and blended learning.
Poster Session 20
Adding an Ethics Module to Any Accounting Course
Presenter:
Katrina Mantzke, Northern Illinois University
Description:
How do you incorporate ethics into an already jam-packed curriculum? Run ethics modules parallel to ongoing coursework to achieve a variety of pedagogical goals without taking significant time away from the technical content of the course.
Poster Session 21
[Cancelled]
An Analogy for the Reporting of an Investment in Subsidiary
Presenter:
Martin A. Leibowitz, Yeshiva University
Description:
The reporting for an investment in a subsidiary can be compared with an investment in a building. The analogy is straightforward and will enhance your understanding of the consolidation process.
Poster Session 22
How a School of Accountancy Developed a Successful Community Financial Services Partnership
Presenters:
Sandra Byrd, Southwest Missouri State University
David Byrd, Southwest Missouri State University
Description:
Materials and ideas will enable the replication of a School of Accountancy's efforts to start a successful community financial services partnership. The partnership allowed a collaboration to leverage volunteers, including accounting students, into a well trained, diversified, multi-generational group.
Poster Session 23
Are You Ready to Play Who Wants to Be an Accountant?
Presenter:
Michelle McEacharn, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Description:
Are you looking for a fun, innovative tool for improving student learning? This session illustrates the Who Wants To Be (WWTB) game, a flexible but powerful tool for improving student learning—and it's available to instructors on a complimentary basis.
Poster Session 24
Online Exams in Traditional Accounting Classes
Presenter:
Patricia Isaacs, Berea College
Description:
Online learning activities, assignments, and exams are not just for online courses. They provide many benefits in a traditional classroom. Helping students prepare for the online CPA exam is one of many reasons to consider online resources in traditional courses.
Poster Session 25
Current Events
Presenter:
Christie W. Johnson, Montana State University–Bozeman
Description:
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Keep accounting students up to date and informed about current financial events! Attend the CURRENT EVENTS Poster Session and learn how your students can become aware of the events shaping the financial world.
Poster Session 26
FASB Due Process Simulation
Presenter:
Kay Zekany, Ohio Northern University
Description:
Give your students the chance to experience sitting on the FASB for a day. Distribute actual FASB comment letters, moderate a debate of the issues in class, and ask students to prepare a written statement of position.
Poster Session 27
A New Methodology of Learning Financial Accounting
Presenter:
Joseph A. Mauriello, New York University
Description:
Accounting is a language science using the accounting standards of concepts, standards, and guidelines and account structures based on characteristics of items representative of the accounting issues and scenarios typifying business life. The writer offers a new learning methodology which is scientific, thorough and logical, assuring a full mastery of accounting in one-third of the conventional learning time.
Poster Session 28
Duty Hours Audit: Taking Time to Count
Presenters:
Cathleen L. Miller, University of Michigan–Flint
Pamela J. Royston, Genesys Regional Medical Center
Description:
Want to learn how easy and useful it can be to add a service learning activity to your course? This session describes the planning, process, and results of a compliance audit performed in an introductory auditing class.
Poster Session 29
The World Baseball League (WBL) – A Financial-Reporting-Based Competitive Learning Activity
Presenter:
Ian R. Hutchinson, Acadia University
Description:
This poster presentation describes the World Baseball League a learning activity created for use in financial accounting courses. Students act as managers of companies that own professional baseball teams and compete against each other for financial supremacy learning financial statement interrelationships along the way.
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