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Educational Implications and the Changing Role of Accountants: A Conceptual Approach to Accounting Education
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van Mourik, Greg; Wilkin, Carla L. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Professional accrediting bodies and accounting education reviews have long expressed concerns about student capabilities and learning outcomes, including the ability to apply knowledge and make reasoned judgements. In response, we report on a new design that uses a web of threshold concepts to guide curriculum development. With an associated focus…
Descriptors: Accounting, Curriculum Design, Active Learning, Business Administration Education
Teaching and Assessing Problem Solving: An Example of an Incremental Approach to Using IRAC in Legal Education
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Burton, Kelley – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Legal reasoning is a type of problem solving, and is situated within thinking skills, one of the six threshold learning outcomes established under the auspices of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's Bachelor of Laws Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement. The threshold learning outcomes define what law graduates are…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Evaluative Thinking, Thinking Skills
Explicit, Latent and Meta-Criteria: Types of Criteria at Play in Professional Judgement Practice
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Wyatt-Smith, Claire; Klenowski, Val – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
This paper engages with debates about whether comprehensive prior specification of criteria and standards is sufficient for informed professional judgement. A preoccupation has emerged with the specificity and explication of criteria intended to regulate judgement. This has resulted in criteria compliance in the use of defined standards to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Standards, Evaluative Thinking, Elementary School Teachers
Value of Libraries Symposium--A Summary of the Event
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Missingham, Roxanne – Australian Library Journal, 2012
On May 31st 2012 the ACTive ALIA Group and Australian Government Libraries Information network (AGLIN) ran a national symposium on the topic of "Value of Libraries". Approximately 80 attended this event which was designed to challenge librarians with conversations that focused on economic and other means of demonstrating our value--value…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Library Services, Focus Groups
Teachers' Thinking Elicited from Interactive Multimedia Professional Development Courseware.
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Putt, Ian; And Others – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1996
Reports on data obtained in Australia on practicing teachers' thinking as they interacted with a professional development interactive multimedia courseware package. Two types of thinking are discussed: (1) cognitive mediating processes related to content; and (2) evaluative thoughts about the instructional design of the courseware, from which a…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Evaluative Thinking
A Judgement-Based Model of Workplace Learning
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Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to outline a judgement-based model of adult learning. This approach is set out as a Perceptual-Judgemental-Reinforcement approach to social learning under conditions of complexity and where there is no single, clearly identified correct response. The model builds upon the Hager-Halliday thesis of workplace learning and…
Descriptors: Socialization, Adult Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories