Improving student satisfaction in a first-year undergraduate accounting course by team learning

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-82

  Opdecam, Evelien ^a   Everaert, Patricia ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Course experience; Introductory accounting course; Student satisfaction; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857951637     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace-10217     Document Type: Article

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