The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether perceptions of Japanese secondary school educators toward accountants is different from those of other professionals such as engineers, attorneys and doctors. The accounting profession around the world has been struggling with the 'best and...

There is a growing awareness among educators that it is important to provide a skills-based education as well as one based on academic achievements. This was articulated in the UK by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA, 2000), in its Subject Benchmarking Statement for...

Having students learn and be assessed in groups is a means to develop among students intellectual and interactive skills/competencies described as generic or “wicked”, as well as of producing deeper learning of various types of knowledge (e.g. organicistic, contextualistic, formistic,...

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...