American Accounting Association Assessment Colloquium at the 1999 AAHE Assessment Forum

Assessment as Evidence of Learning: Serving Students and Society
June 13–16 in Denver, Colorado

Attend the American Association for Higher Education’s prestigious annual conference featuring internationally recognized speakers at a special discount rate AND participate in sessions designed specifically for accounting educators. The AAA is offering an Accounting Assessment Colloquium embedded in the AAHE’s Assessment Forum.

Early bird registration (by May 7, 1999) is $290. Regular registration (by May 24, 1999) is $320. The Adams Mark Hotel will offer special conference rates for reservations made by May 21, 1999. United Airlines is also offering discounts through the AAHE.

The conference will focus on:

• Using assessment to improve the quality of student learning.
• Communicating information about the quality of the educational experience to accreditation bodies, legislators, taxpayers, boards and donors.
• Special topics including using portfolios and capstone courses in assessment, assessment in the major, and assessing service learning in the curriculum.

For details contact Pat Hoban, American Accounting Association, 5717 Bessie Drive, Sarasota, FL 34233-2399; email: AAApat@packet.net, phone: (941) 921-7747 ext. 313; or fax: (941) 923-4093.

Web News

Check out the Accounting Coursepage Exchange (ACE) and
Resources for Change in Accounting Education

You can access all AAA web services through the home page at http://aaa-edu.org. If you like to bookmark individual services, try the detailed URLs below.

ACE Project
http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/ace/index.htm

Enter your coursepage to become part of this searchable database that allows accounting and business educators worldwide to share information about curriculum, teaching approaches, tools to stimulate learning, useful links to additional web resources and specific course schedules, policies and plans.

Resources on Change in Accounting Education
http://206.170.119.32/pubs/index.htm

In this resource a search engine enables keyword searches of the full-text of the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) and supporting reports, and links are included for the Institute of Management Accountants’ (IMA) report, What America Wants in Entry Level Accountants, and to the AICPA’s Vision Project web page.

We’re expanding both of these resources and hope you’ll send recommendations for materials, reports, articles and/or links that would improve these services to Tracey Sutherland, Director of Faculty Development, American Accounting Association, email: AAAtracey@packet.net or telephone: (941) 921-7747, ext. 311.