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Effective Learning Strategies III
Wednesday August 5, 2009
9:45 am – 11:00 am
Board 1 A Process to Simplify Class Assessment
Presenter: Jim Connell, University of MontevalloDescription: Participants will see a simple method to grade multiple-choice exams in-class. Students benefit by receiving instant feedback about their performance on the exam. Professors benefit by walking out of the exam with all tests graded and ready to enter into a gradebook as well as by freeing valuable time for other academic activities.
Board 2 Accountants the Coinstar's of Business
Presenters: Kerry McTier, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Kelly Gail Noe, The University of Texas at San AntonioDescription: How can you effectively explain what accounting is to an eighteen year old (or their parents)? Using a Coinstar machine as the framework to illustrate the accounting process, data (coins) are checked, sorted, stacked and rolled into useful information.
Board 3 Accounting Information Systems Project Modeling the Design of Accounting Systems with REA and Relational Database Constructs
Presenters: Charmayne Cullom, University of Northern Colorado; Richard Newmark, University of Northern ColoradoDescription: Participants will learn how to bring data modeling concepts to life in such a way that students experience the power of a database-driven AIS. Special emphasis is on designing the database, macros and action queries to demonstrate internal controls. All instructional materials available including handouts, solutions, and grading guides.
Board 4 Aligning Introductory Accounting Courses with Program Goals: The Case for Professional Development
Presenters: Mark Kasrel, Rider University; Marge OReilly-Allen, Rider UniversityDescription: Preparing for Externships, Internships, and Co-ops: The Case for Professional Development Skills Learn how to include relevant professional development activities into the introductory accounting courses. Learn about student and recruiter satisfaction with the program.
Board 5 Alternative Application of Film in Ethics Education
Presenters: Roselyn E Morris, Texas State; Wallace Wood, CincinnatiDescription: Well-managed use of movies develop moral sensitivity and moral resolve through vicarious experiences, beyond other ethical development teaching tools. Students can feel and care about being more ethical through watching, discussing, and thinking about film experiences.
Board 6 Assessing Critical Thinking Skills with Multiple Choice Questions
Presenter: Gail Kaciuba, St Mary's UniversityDescription: Is it possible to assess student critical thinking skill levels with multiple choice questions? This session will show you how to do this for students at lower skill levels and how it relates to assessment of higher levels of critical thinking skills.
Board 7 Assigning a Term Paper in a Large Accounting Course: How to Foster Deeper Learning (without Any Headaches)
Presenter: Susan Tiller, Indiana UniversityDescription: Think assigning a paper in a jumbo introductory accounting course is impossible? Think again! Learn how to engage your students by having them write about what they know. Relax—you will also learn how to design grading rubrics, deter plagiarism, and create clear assignments. Watch your students' grumbles turn into "Aha's!"
Board 8 Clicking Our Way to Class Discussion
Presenters: Judith Morse, Providence College; Margaret Ruggieri, Providence CollegeDescription: Looking for a way to improve and promote class discussion with 100% participation from the class? This poster session promotes the use of personal response systems in accounting courses to jump start class discussion and provide valuable feedback on student learning.
Board 9 Deviance at RKG LLP
Presenter: Kate Jelinek, University of Rhode IslandDescription: Firms are asking: how can we get our new hires to understand the problems with some of the things they do? Why are some staffers unaware of the harmful consequences of rumor-milling about their co-workers and breaking client protocol? This case helps masters students identify different types and of "workplace deviance" and discuss consequences.
Board 10 Engaging Students in Your Forensic Accounting Course or How to Find Resources to Keep Yourself and Your Class Content Current
Presenter: Deborah D. Pavelka, Roosevelt UniversityDescription: Today's generation of students learn differently than past generations. They expect to have the most current materials. The focus is on providing resources that will enhance and keep your Forensic Accounting classes current regardless of the teaching mode being used.
Board 11 Enhancing Student Learning Through a European Study Tour: Feedback From Instructors and Students
Presenter: Jacqueline L. Birt, Monash UniversityDescription: In January 2009, 40 Monash University accounting and finance students visited 10 European businesses (including the OECD, the IASB and the Swiss National Bank) on a 3 week international study tour. From an instructor and student perspective, the session will discuss effective learning strategies.
Board 12 Fair Value Accounting Cases
Presenter: Rick Gore, Fort Lewis CollegeDescription: Need help incorporating fair value measurement in your financial accounting courses? Check out our series of short progressive cases, which combine the techniques of fair value measurement with financial reporting. Students learn fair value and accounting at the same time.
Board 13 FASB Accounting Standards Codification Exposure
Presenters: Natalie Churyk, Northern Illinois University; Julia Higgs, Florida Atlantic University; Terrance Skantz, Florida Atlantic UniversityDescription: This summer, FASB's Codification will replace GAAP. To prepare students for the transition, we developed and implemented two projects: a quiz which enhances familiarity with the Codification and a project requiring students to compare and contrast FARS to the Codification.
Board 14 FASB's Due Process: The Stock-Based Compensation Project … Again
Presenter: Thomas Vogel, Canisius CollegeDescription: Students often believe that accounting rules are black and white instead of different shades of gray. This assignment helps them understand the constituents that FASB serves and the biases of these constituents for the information needed. In the end, they learn that setting accounting standards is a political process.
Board 15 Financial Literacy for the Liberal Arts
Presenters: Norma Clifton, Roanoke College; Michelle Hagadorn, Roanoke CollegeDescription: Basic financial literacy is an important topic of national concern. Developing a solid understanding of key financial concepts, such as the time value of money and basic budgeting, is crucial for both personal and professional success. Stop by to learn about our service learning project on Financial Literacy for the Liberal Arts.
Board 16 Forces Behind Tipping Point in Accounting Education: How to Build a Growth Momentum
Presenters: Magdy Roufaiel, Empire State College, SUNY Center for Distance Learning; Nazik Roufaiel, Empire State College, SUNYDescription: A creative online introductory accounting course to promote the accounting curriculum is based on close interaction between students and teacher and the use of available resources on Internet and massive communication tools. Its foundation is the use of real case studies rather than a structured course contents
Board 17 Fostering Student Empirical Research in Undergraduate Accounting Programs
Presenter: Pamela Church, Rhodes CollegeDescription: This session will describe strategies for incorporating student empirical research into undergraduate accounting programs. Through faculty mentoring, capstone research courses, and research symposia, students can learn to formulate relevant questions, design appropriate models, and analyze data logically and methodically.
Board 18 Help Students Visualize How Computers and/or Electronics Devices Affect Internal Control by Assigning a Written Paper Project in the Audit Course
Presenters: Ray Elson, Valdosta State University; Susanne O'Callaghan, Pace University; Arundhati Rao, Elizabethtown College; John Walker, Queens College–CUNYDescription: Help students visualize how computers and/or electronics devices affect internal control by assigning a written paper project in the audit course.
Board 19 How to Integrate Target Costing into Your Management Accounting Classroom
Presenters: Tom Klammer, University of North Texas; Sandra Richtermeyer, Xavier University; James Sorensen, University of DenverDescription: Target costing is now emerging as a best practice in Corporate America. Management accounting professors can use this dynamic teaching-ready PowerPoint introduction to Target Costing. Included is a sensitivity analysis (an Excel spreadsheet) that permits the exploration of multiple scenarios.
Board 20 Improve Learning on Homework with Immediate, Automatic Feedback Online.
Presenter: Greg Geisler, University of Missouri–St. LouisDescription: Between class meetings, the best way for students to learn is a graded assignment. On-line multiple-choice questions where all wrong answers that students commonly choose are included and immediate feedback is provided on all answers will both increase learning significantly more and engage students better than problems from accounting textbooks.
Board 21 Manufacturing Motorcycles: Teaching Overhead Allocation through Experiential Learning
Presenter: Lee Warren, Belmont University; Marilyn Young, Belmont UniversityDescription: Burden. Overhead. Indirect Costs. Regardless of vocabulary, manufacturing overhead costs and their allocation are baffling to students. In this exercise, as students manufacture motorcycles using Tinker Toys, they intuitively assign the facilitites and management costs based on measures of time or units. Thus begins our MOH learning.
Board 22 Principlesofaccounting.com
Presenter: Larry Walther, Utah State UniversityDescription: principlesofaccounting.com is a comprehensive website dedicated to providing quality coverage of financial and managerial accounting topics. The mission is to use technology to raise the quality of accounting education while removing the cost of a traditional purchased textbook.
Board 23 Student Attitudes toward Web-Based Homework Systems
Presenters: Stanley Chu, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Harvey Kin Man, Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeDescription: Textbook publishers are promoting web-based homework systems. They boldly claim that they improve student learning. Recent studies have had mixed results. This session will present the findings of an instructor teaching a Cost accounting class and an instructor teaching an Intermediate Accounting class.
Board 24 Testing in Distance Learning Courses: A Consideration of Academic Integrity
Presenters: Tim J. Fogarty, Case Western; Paul Goldwater, University of Central FloridaDescription: We are all personally offended by cheating. How can we stop it when we cannot see the student taking the exam? Learn how the computer can be used to find out what students are doing. Learn how question difficulty comes into play.
Board 25 The Classroom as a Security Market to Understand Market Forces and the Benefits of Hedging Activities
Presenters: Esperanza Huerta, The University of Texas at El Paso; Maria Luisa Segovia, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de MexicoDescription: Abstract concepts are better understood when they are first experienced with a concrete example. This session describes an activity that can be conducted in class to understand the benefits of hedging activities where each student in the classroom represents the market value of a company's shares.
Board 26 The Development and Implementation of an Enlivened "Stand Alone" IFRS Course
Presenter: Mark Holtzblatt, Roosevelt UniversityDescription: Enliven the presentation of IFRS by learning how to create an engaging and stimulating IFRS "Stand Alone" class optimized by incorporating a combination of webcasts, online videos, interactive statements and e-IFRS. IFRS pedagogical techniques presented are also applicable to other classes.
Board 27 Time to Incorporate XBRL into Accounting Curriculum
Presenters: Shifei Chung, Rowan University; Ramesh Narasimhan, Montclair State UniversityDescription: Are you intrigued by XBRL? Would you like to incorporate it into your course? Find out some of the audit-related issues that can be included!
Board 28 Transforming Traditional Auditing and Accounting Information Systems Graduate Classes into Hybrid Classes by Incorporating a "Blended Learning" Format
Presenter: Rebecca Rosner, Long Island University, C.W. Post CampusDescription: Have you been teaching courses in the traditional face-to-face format for years? Would you feel comfortable teaching those courses exclusively as online classes with no meetings? Why not get involved gradually. A "blended" or "hybrid" course may be the ideal solution.
Board 29 UCare: A Business Plan Project for Managerial Accounting Classes
Presenters: Linda Matuszewski, Northern Illinois University; Fabienne Miller, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDescription: Looking for a managerial project that will help students understand the real-world relevance of accounting information, apply cost management skills, and develop teamwork and communication skills? This project requires teams to develop and present marketing, operating and financial plans for a fundraising event for a nonprofit organization.
Board 30 Use Role Play to Involve Students in a 45-minute Complete Audit to Provide a Foundation for future Details of the Audit Course.
Presenters: Ray Elson, Valdosta State University; Susanne O'Callaghan, Pace University; John Walker, Queen College–CUNYDescription: Use role play to involve students in a 45 minute complete audit to provide a foundation for future details of the audit course.
Board 31 Use Unified Modeling Language (UML) in All Accounting Disciplines
Presenter: John White, University of DenverDescription: Discuss with a colleague the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to document the design, operation, and audit of various accounting processes that span the content areas of financial, managerial, tax, systems, and audit. This really works for all disciplines!
Board 32 Using an Annual Report Project to Help Students in Understanding Financial Accounting
Presenters: Bambi A. Hora, University of Central Oklahoma; Joan Stone, University of Central OklahomaDescription: Learn to use an actual company annual report to help increase student interest in learning about basic financial accounting elements. Hands on activities increase student participation, and make the real world come alive!
Board 33 Using Camtasia and Adobe Pro Extended to Web Enhance your Accounting Courses
Presenter: Kimberly Sipes, Kentucky State UniversityDescription: Need to find a way to demonstrate end of chapter problems to your students when they're away from class? Use your tablet PC, a microphone and Camtasia software to create simple audio and video files that your students can access anywhere they have internet access.
Board 34 Using Collaborative Classrooms to Teach Accounting Using International Faculty and Students
Presenters: Neil Marriott, University of Winchester; Pru Marriott, University of WinchesterDescription: Would you like your students to take part in classes in England while at college in USA? Would you like them to be involved in group projects with students from across the globe without any air travel? Would you like to teach students in England from your classroom in the USA? WIMBA Collaborative Classrooms show you how.
Board 35 Using Statistical Packages (like SPSS16) to Perform Complex Psychometric Analyzes on Accounting Exams
Presenter: Brian O'Doherty, East Carolina University
[PRESENTATION CANCELLED]Description: I show here how Accounting Professors can use readily available statistical packages, like SPSS 16, to delve deep into the psychometric properties of their exams. You can easily calculate your exam's Reliability, and explore the exam items' homogeneousness and dimensionality.
Board 36 Using Technology to Transform Intermediate Accounting I for Generation Me
Presenters: Linda Scott, California State University, San Marcos; Alan Styles, California State University, San Marcos; Zheng Wang, California State University, San MarcosDescription: The presenters will outline the learning styles of Generation Me students (Twenge, 2006). They illustrate how technology meets student desire for peer teaching, multimedia instruction and self-paced learning while allowing faculty to prepare students for entry into the profession.
Board 37 Using Tender Groups for Teaching Management Accounting
Presenters: Adel Mohammed Qatawneh, Al-Zaytoonah University of JordanDescription: This strategy of teaching will make the management accounting course interesting, stimulating and convenient for the students and will let the students practically know how to study the cost and cost behavior for the product through stages, and then understands the value chain meaning.
Board 38 Using the Case Study Method in Lieu of Lecturing in Teaching the Principles of Financial Accounting Course
Presenters: Shife Chung, Rowan University; Ramesh Narasimhan, Montclair State UniversityDescription: Tired of lecturing to a class of lost or bored students in Principles of Financial Accounting? Come to this session and learn how to use the case study method to take students' learning to higher levels and engage them in class.The session will demonstrate an actual case that can be used in enhancing students' learning of revenue recognition concepts.
Board 39 Utilizing the Theme of Fraud in the International Arena in Intermediate Accounting
Presenter: Patricia Johnson, Canisius CollegeDescription: Looking for a way to engage students in exploring IFRS? This session will provide you with a strategy and materials for utilizing international fraud cases to help students examine the impact of IFRS on financial statements.
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