Gender and Performance in Accounting Examinations: Exploring the Impact of Examination Format

Accounting Education

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 471-487

  Arthur, Neal ^a   Everaert, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

accounting; assessment; Gender; multiple choice questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868281714     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.650447     Document Type: Article

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