An empirical investigation into the interactive effects of student personality traits and method of instruction (lecture or CAI) on student performance in elementary accounting

Psychological Type and Academic Performance in the Managerial Accounting Course

“…Of the 16 articles, four examined the relationship between academic performance of accounting students and their indicated MBTI personality type. Specifically, Ott, Mann, and Moores (1990) found that individuals categorized as sensing (S) and thinking (T) performed better, as measured by course grades, in courses using the lecture method. Bealing et al (2006) examined whether incoming accounting majors have a predisposition to a certain type and whether the personality types of accounting majors differ from other business majors.…”

Personality Biases of Accounting Students: Some Implications for Learning Style Preferences

“…Such variety in personality and learning style preferences, both across and within discipline areas, may necessitate adjustments in the range of instructional and assessment procedures used by educators. However, these adjustments have received very little exposure in the accounting education literature (for exceptions see McNeill and Collins, 1975;Ott et al, 1990), despite broader concerns that accounting students seem to have a clear bias towards certain learning styles (Baker et al, 1986(Baker et al, , 1987Baldwin and Reckers, 1984;Blundell and Booth, 1988;Brown and Burke, 1987;Tan and Choo, 1990). This paper presents evidence on the personality profile bias of Australian accounting students, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)', and reviews the psychology and education based research findings on the implications for instructional and assessment methods of this bias, Some guidance for accounting educators in curriculum design and suggestions for future accounting education research are also discussed.…”

Reciprocal Questioning and Computer-Based Instruction in Introductory Auditing: Student Perceptions

“…Though computerbased instructional strategies seem to have gained popularity among business academicians in recent years (Ott, Mann, & Moores, 1990), the degree of popularity and use of the Socratic method among business professors is unknown. Though it appears to be a popular instructional technique in schools of law, lecture apparently continues to be the common method of instruction among professors in many schools of business (The Bedford Com-ABSTRACT.…”