Shining a light on effective teaching best practices: Survey findings from award-winning accounting educators

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 173-205

  Wygal, Donald E ^a   Stout, David E ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning communities; Professional development mentoring; Scholarship of teaching; Survey research; Teaching effectiveness; Teaching exemplars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943534945     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace-51038     Document Type: Article

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