Integrating Accounting Curricula on Academic and Professional Skills Dimensions

Posted: 6 Apr 2004

Date Written: January 15, 2004

Abstract

One of the measures of the success of the educational process is its ability to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of professional life. Educational institutions must consider and integrate the expectations of its professional as well as academic stakeholders when developing curricula. This paper presents a model that considers academic and professional dimensions in course design. The model incorporates levels of learning (Bloom's Taxonomy), the complexity of the learning environment, and the sophistication of professional skills development. The model can also be used to integrate the courses in the accounting curriculum along the three dimensions noted above.

Keywords: teaching and curriculum, Bloom's taxonomy, professional skills

JEL Classification: M40, A0

Suggested Citation

Gifford, Richard and Howe, Harry, Integrating Accounting Curricula on Academic and Professional Skills Dimensions (January 15, 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=490282 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.490282

Richard Gifford (Contact Author)

Elizabethtown College ( email )

Elizabethtown, PA 17022
United States

Harry Howe

SUNY at Geneseo ( email )

Geneseo, NY 14454
United States

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