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Effective Learning Strategies II
Tuesday August 4, 2009
3:00 pm – 4:30 9m
Board 1 Academic Integrity in Higher Degree Education: Perceptions, Issues and Strategies
Presenter: Elvia Shauki, University of South AustraliaDescription: By fitting the outcome with the University's policy, the audience will gain the benefits of tailoring the strategies aimed for their own courses, amendment to their Course Information, professional development and educational process of all staffs dealing with Academic Integrity.
Board 2 Accounting for Investments; Moving Beyond Textbook Problems
Presenter: Mary Welsh, La Salle UniversityDescription: How can we connect intermediate accounting to students' experiences? When teaching accounting for investments (SFAS No 115), have students work with investment portfolios they develop. This session describes how to set up the "portfolio project."
Board 3 Accounting Toolbox for Success
Presenter: Tracie Nobles, Austin Community College
[PRESENTATION MOVED TO MONDAY 9:45 am – 11:00 am, BOARD 46]Description: Have students who struggle with financial accounting and just need a short 10 minute review? Come to this session to view the videos that we created that are making a difference in our students' success and then learn how to do your own!
Board 4 An IFRS-enhanced Accounting Curriculum Using Dual Reporting of IFRS and U.S.-GAAP: A Learner-Centered Approach
Presenters: Angela Hwang, Eastern Michigan University; Steve Lin, Florida International UniversityDescription: You learn to implement the dual reporting plan as an add-on component to intermediate accounting classes without much imposition to existing tight class schedules. Students in this plan will take active roles in classroom and further develop skills in research, oral & written communication, teamwork and life-long learning.
Board 5 An Interesting Introduction to Accounting Using Interdisciplinary Topics
Presenter: Susan Curtis, University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignDescription: See the Debit and Credits dance and talk with a 20-year veteran instructor. Learn how to use the same non-traditional interdisciplinary topics based on accounting, management, strategy, economics and psychology research she has used to excite over 12,000 introductory students!
Board 6 Assurance of Learning: Closing the Loop
Presenter: Robert Michael Garner, Salisbury UniversityDescription: Yes, Virginia, an effective, successful Assurance of Learning Program is possible and attainable! Schools just beginning or in the middle of an AoL effort can gain some insight and save much "reinventing of the wheel" wasted effort by learning from our experiences.
Board 7 Class participation: What do Students Think it Means?
Presenter: Bridget Anakwe, Delaware State UniversityDescription: The audience will learn of any perceptions gap (between students and instructors) of what constitutes class participation. That is, are there differences between what students believe class participation means and what their instructors believe it means.
Board 8 CSI: Accounting Classroom Using Crime—Real, Suspected and Imaginary—To Teach Fraud Risk
Presenter: Mary Jepperson, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityDescription: Bring fraud risk to life by providing your students with examples and hands-on projects and cases. Learn how to use SEC AAERs, headlines and hypothetical transaction databases to teach students about fraud risks, prevention and analysis. Sample cases, databases and grading rubrics will be shared.
Board 9 Debate as a Great Learning Tool
Presenter: Obeua Persons, Rider UniversityDescription: This session will provide tips on how to select a topic for debate, how to prepare and motivate students for the debate, how to assign students to the two groups, and how to assess the debate effectiveness.
Board 10 Educating the Simpsons: Inspiring Theoretical Discussion in the Classroom
Presenter: Karen Van Peursem, The University of Waikato New ZealandDescription: It is a challenge to inspire students as to the fuzzy fields of "theory", "philosophy", and "methodology". This project attempts to sweeten the prospect with a performance and theatrical approach to learning using The Simpsons characters to debate deep issues. Evaluation reveals a laughter-centred and engaging basis for learning.
Board 11 Embezzlement at a Local Country Club: An Auditing Case Project
Presenter: Srinivasan Ragothaman, University of South DakotaDescription: This presentation summarizes the author's experience in implementing an "embezzlement case study" in an auditing class. Learning objectives include: internal control evaluation, evaluation of misappropriation risk factors, design of new controls, materiality, SAS 99, PCAOB AS5, SAB 99, and cost benefit analysis.
Board 12 Equivalent Units—ADM Candy Company
Presenter: Liz Washington Arnold, The CitadelDescription: Get students involved with managerial decisions and hands-on experience. Let them compete with each other on assembling methodology and number of units accurately completed and then discuss the material and labor involved, the rework and equivalent units as they enjoy the "fruits" of their labor.
Board 13 Exploring the Relationship between Students' Learning Styles, Learning Strategies and Perceptions of Accounting and Performance in the Accounting Classroom
Presenters: Jeffrey McMillan, Clemson University; Lydia Schleifer, Clemson UniversityDescription: The finding of this study provide useful information and insights that can help accounting educators alleviate the negative beliefs students hold about accounting and provide insights that can increase students' likelihood of succeeding in accounting.
Board 14 Fair Value—Is it Fair?
Presenter: John Rossi, Moravian CollegeDescription: The need to teach fair value must go beyond the technical application that appears in FASB statements and include a better understanding of techniques and risk to the quality of financial reporting.
Board 15 Foreign Currency—Integrate a Current Events Assignment
Presenter: Christie Johnson, Montana State UniversityDescription: Exchange risk is real! Try a brief introductory assignment on foreign exchange and have your students report on current events and their impact on the foreign exchange market throughout the term, for better understanding of risk management strategies and the accounting treatment.
Board 16 Forming Groups in the Age of UTube
Presenter: Ann Kelley, Providence CollegeDescription: Are you still searching for a great technique to form groups in your class? This poster session demonstrates a unique, innovative technique utilizing a minimum of class time that will be fun and productive for your students!
Board 17 Incorporating Critical Thinking into the Accounting Curriculum
Presenter: Rebekah Sheely Heath, Pittsburg State UniversityDescription: It is assumed that critical thinking will somehow evolve as a result of undertaking the typical accounting curriculum; however, this is not necessarily so. This poster provides practical means of incorporating formal instruction in critical thinking throughout the accounting curriculum.
Board 18 Integrate Excel's Macros into the Accounting Information Systems Curricula
Presenters: Royce Burnett, University of Miami; Mark Friedman, University of MiamiDescription: Learn how to effortlessly integrate the power of Excel's macros into the accounting information systems curricula and help your students learn to be better accountants.
Board 19 Outcome Assessment using Self-Generated Elaboration Projects in the Teaching of Intermediate and Tax Accounting Topics
Presenters: Judith Sage, Texas A&M International University; Lloyd G. Sage, Texas A&M International UniversityDescription: This elaboration project requires the students to actively participate in the learning process by organizing information on selected technical intermediate accounting and tax topics. This learning technique appears to be a good alternative method of teaching accounting topics involving moderate complexity levels.
Board 20 Performance Evaluation of Corporate Divisions
Presenter: Karen Braun, Case Western Reserve UniversityDescription: Using segment information disclosed in the footnotes to annual reports, students learn how companies evaluate the performance of their different operating divisions. Students compare the performance of different divisions and make a hypothetical resource allocation decision. Students also create a Balanced Scorecard for one division.
Board 21 Service-Learning in Cost Accounting: Teaching Budgeting, Cash Management and Savings Concepts in the Syracuse Community
Presenter: Joan Myers, Le Moyne CollegeDescription: This presentation illustrates an undergraduate cost accounting class service learning project. Student groups taught budgeting and cash management modules in the Syracuse community. The students enhanced their knowledge and simultaneously became committed to community service through this project.
Board 22 Synchronous (Live) Class Sessions in Online Accounting Classes
Presenter: Consolacion Fajardo, National UniversityDescription: Want to have an engaging and interactive live class sessions in cyberspace? Come and see how this is done. Teaching and learning in the confines of your own room, but feel like you are in an actual onsite classroom!
Board 23 Synchronous versus Asynchronous Online Teaching
Presenter: Stephanie Farewell, University of Arkansas at Little RockDescription: In an effort to increase enrollments and meet the diverse needs of today's students many faculty are teaching online. In doing so they are faced with the decision of teaching synchronous or asynchronous classes. In this session, I will discuss my experience using both methods for teaching AIS covering the logistics and technological aspects.
Board 24 Teaching Taxation to Undergraduates in a Constantly Changing Legal Environment
Presenters: Martin A. Goldberg, University of New Haven; Mary J. Miller, University of New HavenDescription: Are you teaching your undergraduates tax rules that will be dramatically different by the time they meet their first actual clients? This session will describe enhanced teaching techniques to make your students better able to adapt to changing tax laws.
Board 25 Template for Creating a Customized Critical Thinking Rubric
Presenter: Susan Wolcott, California School of Business and Instituto de EmpresaDescription: This poster session will introduce a template for creating customized critical thinking rubrics. The template makes it easier for professors to communicate desired critical thinking skills to students, grade/assess student work, and foster improved thinking.
Board 26 The Bard on Business: An Example of Integrating the Liberal Arts Into an Accounting Class
Presenter: Jeffrey Power, Saint Mary's UniversityDescription: This presentation will provide Shakespearian examples that could be included in accounting class lectures or discussions that deal with topics such as sunk costs (Othello), debt obligations (The Merchant of Venice), strategic management (Henry IV Part 2), and life lessons to a young adult (Hamlet) to name a few.
Board 27 The Global Classroom: Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Accounting Profession during the Freshmen and Sophomore Years
Presenter: Michael Kraten, Suffolk UniversityDescription: Explore Suffolk University's use of virtual reality to extend its undergraduate learning activities across the globe. Learn how professionals on five continents, a global accounting firm, and an eco-social think tank have helped attract students into the profession.
Board 28 The Greening of Higher Education: A Project Based Application of the Sustainability Scorecard
Presenters: Barbara Charkey, Keene State College; Linda Hadden, Keene State CollegeDescription: Give your students the opportunity to test a newly developed sustainability scorecard at your institution. Students will experience the benefits and challenges of Implementing a new management control system and become more aware of your institution's sustainability performance.
Board 29 The Novice Learner's Approach to Reading the Textbook
Presenters: Gail Hoover King, Rockhurst University; Cheryl McConnell, Rockhurst UniversityDescription: Would you like your students to read and comprehend their textbooks? The authors share preliminary results of a research that provides interesting insight into how novice learners read introductory accounting textbooks. Based on the research, the authors suggest effective strategies that increase student textbook usage and reading comprehension.
Board 30 The Preparation and Use of Stagger-Scene Videos to Increase Student Knowledge Retention and Classroom Interactions
Presenters: Charles Leflar, University of Arkansas, Walton College; Connie McKnight, Arkansas Tech UniversityDescription: Course custom videos, referred to as ‘Stagger-Scene' videos because students do assignments after viewing scenes, are an excellent tool to capture the attention of media driven students. They are ideal for online courses and increase interest and participation in traditional class settings.
Board 31 The Terry Project: Helping Students Link Transactions to the "Bottom Line"
Presenter: Jason Porter, University of IdahoDescription: This project allows students to determine the effects of individual transactions on financial statements, financial ratios, and investor perceptions. Both accounting and non-accounting majors benefit from the opportunity to see how accounting decisions actually affect the "bottom line."
Board 32 Understanding "Accounting Changes" An In-class Exercise for Intermediate Accounting Students
Presenter: Christie Johnson, Montana State UniversityDescription: What has changed? Can a financial statement user differentiate between changes in economic performance versus changes in assumptions, estimates or alternative accounting methods? An early intermediate accounting in-class exercise builds camaraderie and the standards make more sense – now and in subsequent courses!
Board 33 Using an Excel-Based Net Present Value Model to Teach Capital Budgeting in Managerial Accounting
Presenter: Warren Bostrom, College of St. Benedict / St. John's UniversityDescription: Capital budgeting can be a very exciting topic. Enhance learning in your course by using this real-world Excel-based valuation model to show students how cash flows and discount rates impact the value of an investment decision.
Board 34 Using Instructor Prepared MP3 Files in an Auditing Class: Learning Outcomes, Student Attitudes, and Procedural Guidance
Presenters: Robert Braun, Southeastern Louisiana University; Harold E. Davis, Southeastern Louisiana UniversityDescription: Do you want to use classroom time for something other than lecture over textbook material? Instructor recorded MP3 files can help. We present empirical data on student attitudes and relative effectiveness of lectures and MP3s. We also offer implementation guidance.
Board 35 Using Real Business Data to Complete a Capital Budgeting Problem
Presenter: Peggy Ann Hughes, Montclair State UniversityDescription: See how to use data from a small business to teach a capital budgeting problem. The class will determine how much to spend on a commercial property acquisition based on the current year's tax return for operating detail and affordability.
Board 36 Visualizing Cash versus Accrual Accounting
Presenter: Pamela Rouse, Butler UniversityDescription: The session will focus on an experiential learning approach that will help students visualize the distinction between the cash and accrual basis of accounting. Two experiential learning examples will be presented (a computerized business simulation and a real business example).
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