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Students’ Self efficacy and Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Accounting to Non Accounting Majors
Mawdudur Rahman, Suffolk University
Gail Sergenian, Suffolk University
ABSTRACT. Professors teaching accounting to non-accounting majors often find it difficult to maintain students’ attention, encourage class participation, and achieve effective learning outcomes. Based on theories of self-efficacy, we worked on improving students’ self-perceptions of skills and attitudes to help them improve their performance. In this paper we describe our successful strategies, which motivate students, help them achieve higher learning outcomes, and result in positive instructor evaluations. The experience and survey analysis indicate that, ceteris paribus, an environment in which students can improve their self-perceptions of abilities and skills is positively related to participation, learning, and evaluation of faculty. The results of this experiment may be appropriate for other courses and other disciplines.
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