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Enhancing student engagement in large management accounting lectures
Author(s) -
Frick Hermann,
Birt Jacqueline,
Waters Jenny
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-629X
pISSN - 0810-5391
DOI - 10.1111/acfi.12318
Subject(s) - student engagement , management accounting , action research , action (physics) , accounting , mathematics education , medical education , psychology , business , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
The education literature suggests a student‐focused teaching strategy to improve students’ engagement in a lecture. However, in traditional accounting lectures students take the role of passive and anonymous recipients of knowledge. This paper reports on two cycles of an action research project, developing and refining a blended learning model, with the purpose of enhancing students’ engagement in the lectures of a large management accounting course. Results of our study find that engagement was enhanced with the implementation of this model. This study contributes to the accounting education literature through reporting evidence from action research and the effective implementation of a blended learning model that accounting educators can use.