Title

Beyond Just Desserts: The Gendered Nature Of The Connection Between Effort And Achievement For Accounting Students

Keywords

Computerized instructional interface; Evaluation; Gender; Student effort; Student performance

Abstract

The paper evaluates gender differences in the achievement of accounting students using data from students at a large public institution in the USA. Whether one gender outperforms the other is a question that has remained open in the literature, primarily because measures have been confounded by rewards for effort. This paper finds that in an environment where effort is not materially rewarded per se, but serves as a significant means to prepare for grade-bearing evaluations, females do not significantly outperform males. Female student do, however, exert a greater amount of effort. Measures used in this study were assembled by the computer software that managed the student interface, providing practice questions, quizzes, and examinations. Implications for educational choices made by accounting instructors are offered. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication Date

3-1-2010

Publication Title

Journal of Accounting Education

Volume

28

Issue

1

Number of Pages

1-12

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2010.09.001

Socpus ID

79951680017 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79951680017

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