Do accounting students believe in self-assessment?

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dc.contributor.author Hill, Tanya
dc.date.accessioned 2016-08-11T12:04:55Z
dc.date.issued 2016-06
dc.description.abstract In education, formal assessment focuses on summative assessment with the objective of allocating grades, limiting learning by students. Formative assessment, in the form of self-assessment, has been proposed as beneficial to student learning in various fields. This study explores the perceptions of accounting students of the self-assessment process after exposure to the process on three occasions in a facilitated environment created by their lecturers. The students’ perceptions on self-assessment were collected via a structured survey. It was found that most students did not self-assess unless encouraged to do so. However, once they were exposed to self-assessment in an environment supportive to such assessment, students were positive about the process. After the facilitated process, they believed that self-assessment would improve their overall academic performance and indicated that they would apply self-assessment in future. This research provides insight into accounting students’ perceptions of self-assessment in learning, demonstrating the importance of investigating the benefits from a student perspective. en_ZA
dc.description.department Taxation en_ZA
dc.description.embargo 2017-12-31
dc.description.librarian hb2016 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raed20 en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Tanya Hill (2016) Do accounting students believe in self-assessment?, Accounting Education, 25:4, 291-305, DOI:10.1080/09639284.2016.1191271. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0963-9284 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1468-4489 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/09639284.2016.1191271
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56276
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Routledge en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Accounting Education, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 291-305, 2016. doi : 10.1080/09639284.2016.1191271. Accounting Education is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/raed20. en_ZA
dc.subject Reflective learning en_ZA
dc.subject Self-assessment en_ZA
dc.subject Formative assessment en_ZA
dc.subject Accounting education en_ZA
dc.subject Accounting students en_ZA
dc.title Do accounting students believe in self-assessment? en_ZA
dc.type Postprint Article en_ZA


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