International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 25 Issue 4

LEAD: managing educational research in a business faculty

Paul Taylor

The paper aims to introduce this special issue on LEAD, the research management system under which the papers collected in this issue were produced. The paper explains the…

Evidence of improvement in accounting students' communication skills

Elaine Evans, Dawn Cable

With large numbers of overseas students enrolled in university accounting courses in Australia, there is a growing trend in the postgraduate accounting courses to approach the…

Why don't accounting students like AIS?

Savanid Vatanasakdakul, Chadi Aoun

The demand for Accounting Information Systems (AIS) knowledge has increased exponentially over the past two decades, but studying AIS has not proved easy for many accounting…

The personal dimension in teaching: why students value feedback

Anna Rowe

Feedback is a central element of the learning experience yet, until recently, few studies have focused directly on what students think about feedback. This paper seeks to address…

Embedding research activities to enhance student learning

Cynthia M. Webster, Jacqueline Kenney

The purpose of this paper's novel, research‐oriented approach is to embed research‐based activities in a core second‐year course of a university business degree program to support…

Does learning in statistics get deeper or shallower?

Ayse A.B. Bilgin

While the natural expectation is that students seek greater depth of learning as they develop intellectually during their studies, some research calls this into question and even…

Fostering independent learning and engagement for postgraduate students: Using a publisher‐supplied software program

Yvette Blount, Margot McNeill

As educational technologies are more widely adopted in higher education teaching and learning, publishers often include online resources to accompany their textbook offerings. The…

Editorial

Brian Roberts