Developing and Evaluating Selected Pedagogic Innovations to Improve Learning Outcomes for Higher Education Accounting Students

Abstract

This Submission presents a research programme in the period 2006-2018 which developed and evaluated practical pedagogic innovations to improve learning outcomes for undergraduate Accounting Students at the University of Winchester. The Submission discusses the ontology (assumed nature of the reality of Accounting), epistemology (the origins, skills, and knowledge requirements of the Accounting Programme) and the reasoning for the methodological approaches adopted for evaluating the innovations. Six papers published in peer-reviewed professional journals are presented. Five papers describe and evaluate learning innovations implemented in the Business School of the University of Winchester. The innovations are Blended Learning (Publications 1 & 3), the use of Twitter as a social-media application in the classroom (Publication 4), practical Programme Focussed Assessment (Publication 5), and visual methods for Personal Development Planning (Publication 6). A parallel study which examined the level of financial awareness of business students in the UK is also submitted as it contributed to the redevelopment of the undergraduate Accounting Programme (2013), which is the context of the innovation programme. The published studies are described with a background, a comparison with other practitioners, a digest of the methodology and findings, an appreciation of originality and contribution and an outline of how the studies were disseminated to the academic community. The Submission concludes with reflections about: a. Researching and evaluating educational Innovation from a constructivist Perspective. b. Exploiting ICT in educational innovations. c. The methodology of using students' perceptions to evaluate pedagogic innovations.

Date of Award	4 Sep 2023
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of Winchester
Supervisor	Martin Broad (Supervisor) & Jorge Bruno (Supervisor)