Measuring moral judgement and the implications of cooperative education and rule-based learning

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-70

  Dellaportas, Steven ^a   Cooper, Barry J ^b   Leung, Philomena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperative education; Defining Issues Test; Dilemmas; Rule based learning; Welton instrument

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644899938     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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