The unskilled-and-unaware problem describes a negative relationship between one’s skill level and self-assessment bias: the less skilled are, on average, more unaware of the absolute and relative quality of their performance. In this paper, we study whether, and to what extent, the...

A la lumière des principaux résultats de la recherche comportementale en audit et prenant en considération les défis que la profession doit relever aujourd'hui, le présent papier propose de développer de façon urgente un programme de formation visant à développer la pensée critique et...

This paper evaluates changes made to the internal assessment component of a third year financial accounting course at a university in New Zealand. A learning portfolio was designed to supplement existing coursework. The aim was to engender in students a deep rather than a surface approach to...

The authors examine the relationship between students’ locus of control and their evaluation of teaching in a traditional principles of economics course. Locus of control is a psychological construct that identifies an individual’s beliefs about the degree of personal control that...