TAILIEUCHUNG - Student preference for spreadsheet-based learning

Spreadsheets can be used as a learning tool to explore abstract concepts in quantitative-based disciplines such as accounting and finance. Given the rapid adoption of technology in the classroom, understanding how students perceive the use of spreadsheets in quantitative-based courses is imperative. This study examines how students perceive the use of spreadsheets in applied business courses. | http Accounting and Finance Research Vol. 8 No. 3 2019 Student Preference for Spreadsheet-Based Learning Akash Dania1 . Bridget Anakwe1 . Bernadette Ruf1 . 1 College of Business Delaware State University USA Correspondence Akash Dania . College of Business Delaware State University USA Received September 3 2018 Accepted March 7 2019 Online Published June 3 2019 doi URL https Abstract Spreadsheets can be used as a learning tool to explore abstract concepts in quantitative-based disciplines such as accounting and finance. Given the rapid adoption of technology in the classroom understanding how students perceive the use of spreadsheets in quantitative-based courses is imperative. This study examines how students perceive the use of spreadsheets in applied business courses. Student preference is viewed in terms of enhanced learning of course content usage in class lectures increased motivation and presentation of material. Accounting and finance students attending an institute of higher education based in the Northeastern United States were surveyed. Results from this study using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test indicate a preference among students for the use of spreadsheets as a teaching aid in classrooms. Keywords spreadsheets applied business courses teaching aide 1. Introduction During the last decade business education has increasingly seen the use of spreadsheet as a teaching tool from introductory to advanced level courses at the institutes of higher learning. With the adoption of technology in day-to-day life there is an inherent supposition that freshmen students are entering universities with a developed sense of computer literacy. This assumption has allowed instructors to adopt spreadsheets as a tool for teaching quantitative subject content. Correspondingly business discipline educationalists are experimenting with innovative methods such as using spreadsheets and other visual .

• Kế toán - Kiểm toán
• Applied business courses
• Teaching aide
• Kolmogorov Smirnov
• Quantitative based disciplines
• Spreadsheet based learning