Beyond just desserts: The gendered nature of the connection between effort and achievement for accounting students

Journal of Accounting Education

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Fogarty, Timothy J ^a   Goldwater, Paul M ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951680017     PISSN: 07485751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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