Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine to what extent a person’s psychophysiological well-being is affected by misinformation and whether their level of information discernment has any positive or negative effect on the outcome. Design/methodology/approach Participants ( n = 48)...

The relevance structure of an accounting course is the experience by a student of the aim or direction of participating in a course. It is what they experience as being potentially in it for them of completing the various learning tasks in a course. It is one of the driving forces of learning...

Don't ask [the teacher] what he wants. [The teacher] doesn't want anything, instead ask yourself: ‘What do I want?'There is evidence a large proportion of accounting students experience extrinsic motivation when studying accounting at university, which has a strong relationship to surface...

Purpose This paper intends to explore the relationship between participants' eye fixations (a measure of attention) and durations (a measure of concentration) on areas of interest within a range of online articles and their levels of information discernment (a sub-process of information literacy...