Wednesday Effective Learning Strategies Forum
Poster Sessions
Poster Session 1
Teaching Financial Accounting with Analogies
Presenter:
Fred Phillips, University of Saskatchewan
Description:
What do peanut butter sandwiches have in common with depreciation? Visit this session to read a compiled list of analogies that relate everyday events to financial accounting topics; share your own analogies; and pick up a paper describing analogy use in accounting.
Poster Session 2
Designing Accounting Principles Exams: Considering the Effects of Question Format and Demographic Characteristics
Presenter:
Jeffrey J. McMillan, Clemson University
Description:
A thorough review and analysis of over 500 accounting exams provides insights into how the design/format of exams and student demographic characteristics that commonly vary in accounting principle classes may affect your students' exam performance.
Poster Session 3
Teaching and Testing: Do They Match?
Presenter:
Sharon L. Bell, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Description:
This session will give accounting educators the opportunity to discover if their teaching style and testing methods match specific learning objective levels for students. Benjamin Bloom's Pyramid of Learning will serve as the focus for this engaging exchange of ideas.
Poster Session 4
Increasing the Usefulness and Relevance of the Accounting Principles Course
Presenters:
Zafar U. Khan, Eastern Michigan University
Gary McCombs, Eastern Michigan University
Susan Kattelus, Eastern Michigan University
Description:
Research suggests the first exposure to accounting for many business students seems to confirm the pervasive negative stereotypes about accounting. Find out what faculty at one university are doing and how you can stimulate discussion of the challenges at your institution.
Poster Session 5
Teaching Intermediate Accounting Topics Using Self-Generated Elaborations
Presenters:
Judith A. Sage, Indiana University Northwest
Lloyd G. Sage, Governors State University
Description:
A self-generated elaboration technique that required intermediate accounting students to actively participate in the learning process was investigated. The long-term effect and student perceptions of the elaborations, textbook reading, and examples were analyzed by use of an exam and questionnaire.
Poster Session 6
NEW Graduate Course: The Performance and Ethics of Strategic Management
Presenter:
Cathleen S. Burns, University of Colorado at Boulder
Description:
"The Performance and Ethics of Strategic Management" is a new graduate capstone course at the University of Colorado at Boulder addressing how companies jointly pursue profitability and corporate responsibility integrating new CPA exam material, AICPA core competencies, and college donor requests.
Poster Session 7
Active Learning in Auditing-Formulating Effective Groups
Presenter:
Hema Rao, SUNY at Oswego
Description:
Learning outcomes for participants:
- How to minimize group conflicts
- How to increase learning in groups
- Enhance interpersonal skills of students
- How to implement group learning more effectively
Poster Session 8
Integrating Financial Accounting Theory with Business Valuation and Analysis
Presenters:
Patricia Mui-Siang Tan, Nanyang Technological University
Asheq R. Rahman, Nanyang Technological University
Stephen M. Courtenay, Nanyang Technological University
Description:
A fresh look at the role of accounting information in Business Valuation and Analysis—come share our experiences.
Integrating standard setting, economic consequences, capital market findings, positive accounting theory, behavioral finance, investor relations, corporate governance, etc., with business valuation and analysis.
Poster Session 9
Who Wants to Learn Accounting? The Use of Personal Response System in Introductory Accounting
Presenter:
Joann R. Segovia, Minnesota State University–Moorhead
Description:
This session explains a personal response system and demonstrates how to operate the system. The effectiveness of using this technology in an introductory accounting course is assessed through students' evaluations and observations of the instructor.
Poster Session 10
Invent-a-Scene: A Precertification Skills Development Approach in Multiple Course Settings
Presenters:
Donald E. Wygal, Rider University
Margaret O'Reilly-Allen, Rider University
M. Elizabeth Haywood, Rider University
Description:
Invent-a-Scene is a new technique developed to facilitate precertification classroom delivery and to address new features of the computerized CPA exam. Students are required to develop realistic problem-solving scenarios with the advice of accounting professionals.
Poster Session 11
Using an Ethics Questionnaire to Dialogue a Variety of Ethical Issues
Presenter:
Susan V. Crosson, Santa Fe Community College
Description:
Having students take an ethics questionnaire the first day of class has proven to be effective in opening dialogue about ethics. Student learn from the first day of class that high ethical standards are valued not only in business, but in the course as well. The ethics questionnaire, teaching notes, and several semesters of student results will be shared.
Poster Session 12
Multimedia Technology: The Third Revolution in Higher Education
Presenter:
A. James McKee, College of Charleston
Description:
Would you like to present cost flows, job order costing (and other cost/managerial) topics using animation, and incrementally unfolding problem-solving machine tutorials— that require your students to do the navigating? You can, provided you have the "outsourcing" software.
Poster Session 13
Motivation and Accounting Education
Presenter:
William B. Joyce, Eastern Illinois University
Description:
- Exploring Motivation
Perspectives
- Achievement Motivation
Extrinsic, Intrinsic, Attribution, Monitoring, Anxiety, Instructional Strategies
- Relationships and Socio-Cultural Contexts
Social Motives and Relationships, Socio-Cultural Contexts
- Keeping Students Motivated
Overall Strategies and "Special Needs" Achieving Students
Poster Session 14
Teaching Financial Modeling
Presenter:
William C. St. John, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Description:
In industry, the accountant is rushed to provide financial information to a variety of constituents. A quick financial model is built, the questions answered, and the workbook forgotten until the questions are asked again. Students must be taught to systematically construct well-documented financial models using Excel®.
Poster Session 15
Primary Accounting Case Studies Need "Training Wheels" (Serial Deadlines)
Presenter:
Michael J. Krause, Le Moyne College
Description:
Case studies not only introduce accounting students to practical dilemmas, they also train future practitioners to think in holistic ways. Only training (experience) develops one's ability to synthesize. Therefore a foundational case assignment should offer training by adopting serial deadlines.
Poster Session 16
[Cancelled]
Comparing Companies for Learning and Profit
Presenter:
Bryan Bessner, DeVry Institute of Technology
Description:
Class Project Idea!!! Discover a way to integrate accounting knowledge, research skills, data interpretation, and the desire for financial gain into one project that will keep your students interested and energized. Used with fantastic success for years … DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!
Poster Session 17
Decision-Support Tools to Manipulate Verbal Data (What You Need in Addition to Your EXCEL® Skills!)
Presenters:
James E. Sorensen, University of Denver
Gary Siegel, DePaul University
Sandra Richtermeyer, University of Wyoming
Description:
Verbal data needs to be organized as well as structuring quantitative data with tools like Excel. Three tools for organizing verbal data (Affinity Diagram, Interrelationship Digraph, and Cause-and-Effect Diagram) are illustrated and demonstrated with an (in-class) exercise. Solutions and assessments provided.
Poster Session 18
Teaching Experiential Field Projects Courses in AIS
Presenter:
Daniel M. Ivancevich, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Description:
Learn about teaching using experiential field projects, with a specific focus on course development, structure, and administration. Discussion will include how to identify potential projects, using confidentiality agreements, project descriptions, grading, and general advantages and disadvantages of experiential field projects.
Poster Session 19
Online Teaching: Benefits and Pitfalls Based on Three Accounting Courses
Presenter:
Susan H. Ivancevich, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Description:
Learn about the pros/cons of online teaching, including a hands-on demonstration of online materials for three accounting courses. Discussion includes course development, functionality of web tools/resources, course management, cases, group work, testing, and leveraging online resources for nonweb classes.
Poster Session 20
The Power of Socratic Art and Online Education
Presenters:
Nazik Roufaiel, Cornell University
Nora Fadl, Rockland Community College
Description:
Learn about Socratic Art and how to design curriculum strategy that induce learning and create more skilled students. The presentation provide various types of questions that educators can tailor to the subject matter and motivate students to search for answers to their inquiries.
Poster Session 21
Best Travel Case
Presenter:
Barbara Waddington Ross, Eastern Michigan University
Description:
Many students in Accounting Information Systems have a hard time believing that information in a database can be extracted into financial statements because it is stored only once. This case has students "prove it to themselves" using Microsoft? Access.
Poster Session 22
Critical Success Factors in an Accounting Curriculum Enhanced by SAP R/3
Presenter:
Joseph M. Ragan, Saint Joseph's University
Description:
The demand for trained ERP professionals with accounting and business knowledge is significant. This is the story of how one school revitalized the accounting curriculum through the integration of supply-chain management and enterprise resource planning software.
Poster Session 23
Teaching Conceptual Thinking in Upper-Level Accounting: Student Groups Writing FASB Standards
Presenters:
Charles Leflar, University of Arkansas
Connie McKnight, Arkansas Tech University
Description:
Learn the organization and benefits of a semester-long project that requires groups of students to research, develop, write, revise, and present a new "Proposed FASB Standard" on a topic currently under study by the Emerging Issues Task Force.
Poster Session 24
Teaching Is an Art—Not a Science!
Presenter:
Galen L. Rupp, Pittsburg State University
Description:
Teaching is an art—not a science! Are you the best teacher you can be? It's never too late to improve your teaching effectiveness. You'll learn what not to do as well as suggestions for becoming a great teacher.
Poster Session 25
Effectively Demonstrating Sampling Risk in Testing Controls
Presenters:
Michelle McEacharn, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Bruce Wampler, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Description:
Would you believe learning about sampling risk can be fun and interesting to students? This session will describe a classroom experiment that effectively demonstrates and improves understanding about sampling risk in a novel and entertaining way.
Poster Session 26
Toward a Holistic Approach in Teaching Financial Accounting, Auditing, and Accounting Information Systems: A Systems Approach
Presenters:
Ramesh Narasimhan, Montclair State University
Shifei Chung, Rowan University
Description:
Tired of students' comments, "We learned that so long ago, we forgot?" Tired of alumni comments of the practical irrelevance of your program? Attend this poster session and learn to design an integrated program to achieve students' lifelong learning.
Poster Session 27
Classroom Rubric for Assessing Critical Thinking and Other Professional Competencies
Presenter:
Susan K. Wolcott, WolcottLynch Associates
Description:
Learn about a practical rubric for assessing critical thinking and other professional competencies using classroom essay assignments. Assessments automatically identify both strengths and weaknesses in student skills, enabling educators to use assessment results for helping students develop desired skills.
Poster Session 28
Consolidated Financial Statements
Presenter:
Christie W. Johnson, Montana State University–Bozeman
Description:
Helping students develop a firm grasp of consolidated financial reporting is a daunting task. Attend the CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Poster Session and learn how to assist students in developing an in-depth understanding of CFS through an integrative, multistage project.
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