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Publication Date: 2020
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The Importance of Supplemental Resources in Accounting Education
Robert O’Haver
Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations
This paper uses a quasi-experimental approach to test the impact of textbook-related chapter videos and companion quizzes as the pre-lecture resources in an entry-level accounting course. Two side-by-side sections of an introductory Management Accounting class, at a large university, establish the control and treatment groups. The results indicate that with the availability of pre-lecture resources (chapter-related videos), students in the treatment group exhibit significantly better final exam performance results and self-report a higher rate of pre-reading before each class lecture. Students reported the videos were helpful and clear. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the effect of "nudging" and rewarding students for completing pre-lecture learning activities on cumulative final exam performance. In so doing, this paper also provides insight into what can be an effective pre-lecture, or supplemental, resource in the accounting classroom. [For the complete volume, "Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations. Volume 24," see ED661366.]
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Supplementary Reading Materials, Textbooks, Video Technology, Tests, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students, Flipped Classroom
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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