Business Education

The powerful yet platonic discipline of finance is 'resisting' cultural and ethical dialogue, making it ever more technocratic and incapable of questioning its own fundamental assumptions and paradigms. Little is known about the global Jain community, one of the world's oldest living cultures, and its intricate and distinctive living ethic and philosophy of finance which has given them sustained long-term success and leadership in business. This essay applies auto-ethnography and the concept of 'person-in-community' to examine the

Mobility is now the central focus of the lives of European citizens in business, education, and leisure. This will be enriched by pervasiveness in the future. The Daidalos vision is to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous network technologies that allow network operators and service providers to offer new and profitable services, giving users access to a wide range of pervasive, personalised voice, data, and multimedia services. This paper discusses the security issues that need to be addressed to make Daidalos a real viable solution for future pervasive mobility. Issues include among others privacy & identity management, secure protocols, distributed key management, security in ad hoc networks.

The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the business education programs offered by Auburn University's College of Business, Alabama, U.S.A. and Faculty of Business Administration, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest Romania. This comparative analysis is conceived in a larger perspective of the two different cultures and traditions in developing business education programs. The analysis is performed taking into consideration several dimensions, from the curriculum structure to the academic work with honesty and integrity.

This paper investigates the use of the latest technology and innovative methods in such a way that the established learning and teaching approaches are taken into consideration in designing teaching materials. In other words, technology is not regarded and used as a substitute but as a complementary component to achieve enhancements. The use of leading edge technologies such as three dimensional (3 D) animation and virtual reality technologies are explored for this purpose. This balanced approach in designing teaching materials is demonstrated through a number of applications in Business related courses. Hence, technology aided teaching methods, which utilize established learning concepts for the purpose of learning enhancement are developed and presented. In order to test this design approach, one of the latest 3D programming tools was adopted. The findings demonstrated that Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, when supported by established learning and teaching concepts, can play a ...

This study determined the factors that influence the application of social media to teaching-learning process; investigated applicable choice of social media relevant in the teaching-learning process and; determined the impact of social media on students' language learning. Descriptive survey research design was employed. The population consist all Basics 6-9 school pupils in Osun State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. 670 pupils were sampled using stratified sampling procedure. A selfdeveloped instrument titled 'Social Media Teach (SMT)' with reliability coefficient of 0.762 was used to collect data. Pearson correlation and simple percentages were used in analysis. The study found the factors influencing application of social media to teaching-learning process include ease of access to learning materials (77.5%); freedom of expression (62.5%); increase interaction (language use) between peers (60%) and; improving pupils' language skills (55%). The factors accentuated that social media has a place in language education. Study also found some social media applications appealing to learners in language education in the study area to include Google+, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The study further revealed positive relationship between the integration of social media into language education and performances in school (r = 0.245, p ˂ 0.05). Study concludes that the integration of social media in language education will improve language skills, expressions and school performance at basic schools.

Emerging trends such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Business Disruption Technologies will change the way businesses do things. Specialized skills and learning is needed for our managers to handle such changes. There is an ever-increasing expectations gap between career-oriented students and work-oriented employers. This forces business schools to offer employer specific customized courses and allowing workspace to be future classrooms. In the globalization context, mangers will have to balance between ‘local’ and ‘global’ views. Soft skills need to be complemented with social media and social networking skills. This paper uses descriptive content analysis method to identify some emerging trends that will influence our management education so that these institutions can make appropriate changes to make their students future ready.

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja edukacji na rzecz przedsiębiorczości w szerszym kontekście współczesnych wyzwań cywilizacyjnych i gospodarczych, zwłaszcza w aspekcie trwającego światowego kryzysu gospodarczego, identyfikacja tych wyzwań oraz próba nakreślenia pożądanych kierunków ewolucji edukacji dla przedsiębiorczości. W artykule omówiono problem nauczania przedsiębiorczości, dokonując rozróżnienia pomiędzy nauczaniem przedsiębiorczości ekonomicznej a nauczaniem przedsiębiorczości pozaekonomicznej, ponadto poruszono w nim kwestię wertykalnej oraz horyzontalnej edukacji na rzecz przedsiębiorczości. Artykuł zakończono próbą ustalenia rekomendacji dla dalszego kształtowania edukacji na rzecz przedsiębiorczości.

This paper outlines an experiential learning exercise designed to improve business students' ability to apply flexible leadership. The exercise is a two-step process for which students complete a simulation and then write a self-reflective essay. Two mixed-methods studies were conducted to investigate the overall learning experience and changes in students' ability to apply flexible leadership. The findings showed that students perceived the simulation as being satisfying and engaging, realistic and immersive, easy to use, and valuable for teaching work-related skills. After completing the simulation and self-reflective essay, students' perceived ability to apply flexible leadership improved significantly, and they also showed improved self-awareness of their use of flexible leadership.

The study of entrepreneurship has experienced remarkable growth in the last half century. Within fifty years the field has evolved from little discussion among scholars as a viable economic force or the offering of a single course into a major public policy debate regarding the relevancy of entrepreneurship in community colleges and universities, now offering a diverse range of educational

Morocco country faces a set of challenges related to the global economic crisis which strongly affects the funding dedicated to different development sector. In this way, engineering schools are expected to respond to higher education's heightened requirement while using the minimum amount of resources. Lean thinking is a systematic approach to improve the efficiency of the educational process by promoting continuous improvement. It can be applied both to learning and administrative steps to eliminate activities that do not add value. In order to apply lean thinking principles in Moroccan engineering education we need to understand how process activities create value and interact together. The process approach is a powerful way of visualizing process flow and how inputs are transformed into outputs using different resources. The purpose of this study is to introduce the first two principles of lean thinking, namely value definition and process mapping, in Moroccan engineering education. Firstly we have chosen to study the ENSEM (National Higher School of Electricity and Mechanics) processes. We have described its learning system in order to define the value and elaborate the macro process mapping. Thereafter, we have built SIPOC process map in the ENSEM context.

Although the US business school model has come to dominate the business school landscape, European schools have developed their own identities, styles and approaches to management education. In particular, they focus on reflective, integrative and actionbased learning, public sector management and public policy issues and offer a greater sensitivity to international relations. This paper explains the evolution of business schools on both sides of the Atlantic and using evidence from rankings published annually by the Financial Times, addresses the key features of European business schools. It then maps the competitive characteristics and the relative strengths and advantages of European schools over their US counterparts.

Critical reflection is considered a highly valued graduate attribute in higher education. Assignments that assess critical reflection skills often require students to focus on subjective and personal experiences, attitudes and dispositions. In addition to being typically less valued than objective and theoretical knowledge, reflective writing is often viewed as unstructured and 'creative', therefore challenging to teach and learn. This paper makes visible the means by which high-achieving students in social work and business successfully engage with subjective meanings in reflective writing. Drawing on the Appraisal framework from Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper shows how successful students move from common sense understanding of problematic situations to demonstrating discplinary knowledge and values in their fields of study. The paper concludes with consolidating the findings to make visible successful critical reflection practices as well as associated ethical concerns in order to advance equitable outcomes in higher education.

There is a growing body of research on teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), yet most of it has focused on subject-matter-bounded (specific) PCK and involves teachers in the general classroom (elementary and secondary grades). This study explores the kinds of interpretative frameworks that university professors use in constructing and implementing PCK. The basic purpose of this study was to better understand the "generic" nature of PCK among exceptional university-level teachers. It analyzes generic PCK in professors across several fields (biology, business, education, kinesiology, music, nursing, special education, and speech communication). Data were obtained from phenomenological interviews with 10 university professors, all of them experienced teachers and recognized by their peers and administrators as eminent. The results emerged from qualitative analysis of the data, and indicate that these professors not only construct and use generic PCK in very similar ways but also that they apply generic PCK in ways that reflect Rubin's (1989) notion of "pedagogical intelligence" and Porter and Brophy's (1988) insights on good teaching. Five generic PCK components emerged: knowledge about (a) the subject matter, (b) the students, (c) numerous instructional strategies, (d) the teaching context, and (e) one's teaching purposes. In addition, the results problematize the traditional "scholar-teacher" dichotomy in higher education.

MOOC or Massive online open courses has taken higher education sector by storm and scared by its disrupting innovation qualities many  big universities quickly took initiative to offer free MOOCs for learners worldwide (Yuan & Powell, 2013; Lorenz et al., 2014). However the enthusiasm for MOOC is fading away and a variant called SPOC(Small Private Online Course) which could be used for classroom based learners are now  touted as the next generation MOOC and game changers (Shimabakuro, 2013; Fox, 2013). In this proposal we have suggested how to investigate the effectiveness of SPOC in learning delivery for classroom based mature students of business discipline. It is assumed that learning will be enhanced as use of SPOC will encourage independent learning.

Keith G. Brown, Mary Beth Doucette and Janice Esther Tulk (eds.), Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton UP, 2016. 303 pages. ISBN 978-1-77206-004-7. $27.95 paperback.This text book is full of useful information for those Indigenous students seeking to understand how to approach business from within Indigenous communities. It not only addresses the stumbling blocks encountered by those attempting to start a business, but it approaches those issues through standard business principles. Barriers that might be encountered are explained and various options are presented for overcoming them. This teaching could be perceived by some Indigenous communities as favouring government imposed laws that overrule their informal leadership structures. However, knowledge and understanding are the keys to moving forward.Explanations of the governances, laws, Native rights, and differences between Nations and non-Indigenous people are well presented. This background provides an understanding as to why there are obstacles and differences and opens the mind to possibilities that avail themselves for Indigenous people within the business world. History has taught Indigenous peoples to see themselves as segregated from other Canadians, when in fact they need to see themselves as a real part of the modern world and as self-sustaining and productive contributors to the economy.On page 30, the authors state that "A goal shared by most Indigenous communities in Canada is for their lands to be places where community members-their own citizens-want to live". It is my experience that traditionalists often view education and success in the outside business world as threats to the preservation of culture and identity. Often, young people who have obtained a good education and work off the reserve are drawn back into the isolation of their reserve and traditional practices because elders tell them "to shed the ways of the white world".... a step backwards. Derek's story in chapter four is a great motivational example of success that can be experienced while living on a reserve. Stories like his can help initiate positive thinking in young Native entrepreneurs. Important benefits and economic advantages are shown for both those on-reserve and off-reserve. Business financing, training, business plans and mentors are discussed - all important points necessary when starting any business. Old stereotypical beliefs that "an Indigenous person cannot get financing to help start a business" are put to rest when options for help are made known with real examples.Fear of change is real (41). Self-government agreements allow Aboriginal governments substantial land-management authority. However, they are often not finalized due to the lingering mistrust of past government influences (23). Traditional chiefs compete with the formal chief-and-council system imposed by the Indian Act (42). Even so, the growing youth population on reserves must be taught to see business success and ambition as non-threatening and the way to become self-determining: "Motivations by parents and elders must change from the 'Wards of State' past attitudes that relied on transfer payments." "They cannot isolate themselves into their traditions."There is a limited understanding of Aboriginal circumstances by non-Aboriginal firms and individuals (69). …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: 1) To reinforce the case for how a Catholic, Jesuit B- school education is more comprehensive than the traditional B-school in producing a mature, self-aware, ethically informed graduate who is equipped to be an innovative, influential, excellence-seeking leader committed to the service of others—who are indeed the types of people our society needs and wants at all organizational levels. 2) This whitepaper proposes a model of leadership education that builds on the work of Chris Lowney, author of Heroic Leadership (2005), who proposes Four Pillars of Leadership: self-awareness, ingenuity, heroism, and love. These Four Pillars provide the basis of a framework for developing leaders that goes well beyond mere competence.

Abstract Business education has been blamed for deficiencies in the leadership, decision-making and ethical conduct of business managers. The quantitative and analyti-cal orientation in business school curricula and the consequent lack of humani-ties-based courses have been identified as reasons. The fundamental reason, however, lies in the philosophy of business research and education which shapes the curricula, teaching methods, and ultimately the graduates' ability to handle various managerial functions.

The use of PowerPoint (PPT)-based lectures in business classes is prevalent, yet it remains empirically understudied in business education research. The authors investigate whether students in the contemporary business classroom view PPT as a novel stimulus and whether these perceptions of novelty are related to students' self-assessment of learning. Results indicate that the degree of novelty that undergraduate business students associate with PPT-based teaching significantly relates to their perceptions of PPT's impact on cognitive learning and classroom interaction. Students' views of PPT as a novel stimulus are also associated with their perception of specific constructive and dysfunctional classroom behaviors and attitudes. The authors discuss their findings and offer implications for instructors and researchers in business education.

Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to alternative revenue streams, such as grants, private donations, custom publishing, patents, real estate, and profitable graduate courses to help raise revenue. This article provides 47 unique and conventional ways to raise funds.

Advertising is not a panacea that can restore a poor product or rejuvenate a declining market; it is not a substitute for sound business judgment nor is advertising merely the words and pictures that appear in newspapers and magazines, on billboards and on television screens. These are the means or the media that advertising uses to communicate its information about products, services, and ideas to people: information designed to persuade them make buying or action decisions. Advertising is the art and business of persuasive communication”.

This article provides a "how to" guide for developing and teaching a servicelearning course in social entrepreneurship and community leadership. As the framework of the course, service-learning operates through faculty to student, student to student, and student to client interactions. The discussion articulates the planning and faculty commitment necessary as well as the goals, objectives, project examples, and outcomes associated with the class. A unique aspect of the course, the pairing of graduate student mentors with high school student protégés within teams, is described. The service-learning activities required throughout the course are generalizable to several management education contexts that wish to enhance learning and leadership by creating partnerships between the university, its students, and its community.

This research project sought to assist business three (3) students of Faith Senior High School to enhance their performance in budgeting and budgetary control using cognitive apprenticeship model of instruction. Many have argued that, our educational curriculum should be modelled to equip students with the requisite employable and entrepreneurial skills. Some scholars argue that the best form of education that give hands on practical training is the apprenticeship model of education and think it can be incorporated into our educational system. This can be done by replicating/bringing the process in the traditional apprenticeship that is the modeling, scaffolding, coaching, articulation and exploration into the classroom. The research was conducted in a way that saw the replication of all the elements of the apprenticeship model in the classroom for the impact to be evaluated. All the students in the class took part in the study. The researcher used exercises, observations, interview and administered questionnaire to gather data and used tables and figures/charts to analyze the data. The post-intervention results showed that the performance of the students improved consistently over the study period. The results mean that students' performance can be enhanced if the cognitive apprenticeship model of instruction is used.

Purpose – the purpose of this article is to review a quasi-experiment study examining whether business students’ math anxiety is reduced after participating in mandala coloring activities. Research methodology – the research methodology integrated quantitative methods including independent t-tests and ANOVAs in a non-random convenient sample of 106 undergraduate students in 2018 in Texas, United States. Findings – results from the one-way ANOVA and t-test analyses revealed that anxiety levels differed across groups, such that after coloring a pre-drawn mandala, math anxiety was significantly reduced in comparison to the control (doodling) group. Paired sample t tests also demonstrated that when comparing the anxiety levels at the baseline and post-treatment, math anxiety was reduced after performing both the pre-drawn and free-coloring mandala activities. Additionally, an independent sample t-test and a two-by-two factorial ANOVA demonstrated that males experienced a significant red...

The enduring employability of 21st-century workers demands explicit and career-long attention. As a result, higher education finds itself tasked with enabling students to negotiate their career-long cognitive and social development as capable and informed individuals, professionals and social citizens. At a time of funding constraints, increasing casualisation of university staff and a diverse, time-poor student population, this is no mean task. Indeed, there is increasing acknowledgement that employability and career development initiatives have little impact unless they regularly engage the whole student population. Grounded in social cognitive theory, the study reported here seeks to understand students' career-related development. The participants reported in this article are 6,004 undergraduate business students enrolled with one of 32 Australian universities. The students created personalised employABILITY profiles using an online tool. Drawing from the tool's data, the article reports students' text-based responses to the question of what they would change about the degree programmes in which they are enrolled. Students express concerns about the potential to establish a career as early as the first year of study. Despite being committed to completing their programmes, students do not appear to have sufficient strategies with which to position themselves for the graduate labour market. They do, however, request a range of changes to their programmes and to programme delivery. The findings suggest the value of adopting a research-informed, metacognitive approach to employability development to establish the relevance between the learning assigned to students and their future lives and work.

Correspondence education has received very little attention from business historians. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to draw attention to The Sheldon School and the work of its entrepreneurial founder, Arthur Frederick Sheldon. Sheldon's correspondence course was studied by thousands of students in the early twentieth century. His interests, as reflected in his correspondence course materials and related articles, range from a focus on facilitating exchange relationships through to concerns with distributive justice, sales ethics and the promotion of an American economic and political vision across the globe. As a key figure in the sales education industry, Sheldon had a major impact on the social environment of the twentieth century via his involvement with the Rotary Club. Courtesy of his influence at Rotary, his ideas continue to shape the way prominent scholars have reflected on the consumer and marketing concept.

This article addresses the problem ofplagiarism in business and business education. It discusses the issues involved in determiningwhether plagiarism has actually occurred and arange of alternatives for preventing, detecting and dealing with plagiarism. The articleconcludes by discussing the relevance ofplagiarism for businesses students, andsuggesting ways that business managers andeducators can prevent, detect, assess andrespond to plagiarism in business practice andeducation.

The demands of the knowledge economy have placed renewed emphasis on graduate employability and the development of higher-order thinking skills. Preparing graduates for the workplace requires new instructional approaches to develop a matrix of interrelated skills. This study investigates an immersion approach to developing employability skills with emphasis on the infusion of critical thinking skills in an undergraduate business degree.

Although business and management education research has made great strides over the last decade, concerns about the area's legitimacy and attraction of new scholars continue to require attention. One of the obstacles that may impede the area's progress is a lack of knowledge of the influential works that may be useful in determining the nature and magnitude of potential contributions. Using Harzing's Publish or Perish and a broad list of search terms related to business and management education, we generated an initial list of 100 highly cited articles published since 1970. Fifty-eight of the 100 articles were published in or after 2000. After noting the most highly cited articles, their journal outlets, and their influence patterns with other highly cited articles, we conclude the article with potential research questions regarding development of research streams, the relative influence of new journals, and efforts to attract and increase the influence of business education scholars .

Tesis de Maestría MRRHHGC / Master Thesis Ms
Este trabajo muestra la metodología seguida para aplicar el método investigación-acción en el campo de los recursos humanos y la gestión del conocimiento. Un grupo de estudiantes de informática y negocios se usa como objeto de estudio. A estos estudiantes se les buscó la mejora de su formación a través de una metodología docente particular. La tesis concluye dos cosas: que el método investigación-acción es aplicable a estudios de recursos humanos y gestión del conocimiento, y que Investigación-Acción mejora aporta a estos estudios con –por ejemplo ne el caso- la mejora de la investigación sobre la metodología docente y la formación (acción) de los estudiantes del caso. La investigación para llegar al planteamiento metodológico que ofrece la tesis duró 5 años. ********** This thesis shows the methodology followed to apply the action-research method in the field of the human resources and the knowledge management. A group of students of informatic of business is used as object of study. To they there was looked the improvement of his formation across an particular educational methodology. The thesis presents two conclussions: actión-research is aplicable to studies about human resources and knowledge management, and action-research improves these studies with –by example in the case- the improvement of the research used on the educational methodology and the formation (action) of the students of the case. The research to come to the methodological approach offered in the the thesis lasted 5 years

Aplicación del método Investigación- Acción bajo un enfoque de proyectos en una investigación longitudinal de procesos formativos de profesionales del área de tecnología y negocios: reflexiones metodológicas.

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to present a new marketing mix based on MBA students' attitudes and opinions towards the marketing initiatives of business schools in South Africa. The post-graduate business education market is, and increasingly, getting more aggressive in their efforts to attract students on to their flagship degree, the MBA. The traditional marketing tools historically grouped into 4Ps (product, price, place and promotion), 5Ps (adding people) and 7Ps (adding physical facilities and processes) may be wanting in this market. Design/methodology/approach -The approach taken was a quantitative survey of students registered at state subsidized universities in South Africa. Findings -The factor analysed data showed seven quite distinct underlying factors in the marketing activities of these business schools, some covering the same elements of the traditional marketing mix: people, promotion, and price. There were, however, four different elements: programme, prominence, prospectus, and premiums. Research limitations/implications -While the survey included only MBA students from a sample drawn in South Africa, the study does highlight the fact that the traditional services marketing mix may not be as useful to the higher education sector as it might have been originally thought. Practical implications -The development of marketing strategy may be better served by this 7P model rather than the services mix. Originality/value -This paper presents the underlying factors that form the basis of a new marketing mix specifically for MBA recruitment.

This article will discuss the concepts of Cradle to Cradle and Circular Economy in relation to sustainable production involving philosophical debates on economic growth, and the risk of subversion of managerial practice to business as usual. The case study is based on the assignments submitted by Masters students as part of a course related to sustainable production and consumption at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Some of the supposedly best practice cases placed on the website of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation or those awarded Cradle to Cradle certificate were evaluated by students as green-washing. Larger implications of circular production for business and ecological management are discussed.

"With the complexity of today’s business transactions, accountants are continuously challenged to cope with the changes to survive in the profession. Such changes require academic institutions to emphasize the development of knowledge and skills among accountancy students.

This paper focuses on the development of three skills: analytical, communication, and research skills in the accountancy education as perceived by Accountancy students and faculty members. Using the data from the surveys gathered from accountancy students and faculty members of De La Salle University, results show that all problem solving, evaluating and interpreting financial data/systems, business cases, and design of theoretical questions discouraging memorization are perceived by students to be highly significant to the general development of analytical skills. On the other hand, faculty members only perceive business cases, evaluating financial systems, and design of theoretical questions to be significant in the analytical skill development. Despite this result, both students and faculty agree that problem solving is the number one factor in the development of the skill, while on-the-job training is considered to be the least factor.

In terms of communication skills, students perceive all areas such as oral communication, written communication, non-verbal communication, and listening skills, with the exception of essay writing, to be highly significant with the general evaluation of communication skills. Faculty members, on the other hand, perceive writing essays, debates, and graded recitation to be highly significant factors in the development of the skill. It was also found out that preparing written reports is the number one sub-skill that develops the communication skills, as evidenced by high mean scores.

For research skills, all factors such as awareness on plagiarism, reference to other school materials, basic and applied research, taking research methodology courses and other related subskills are highly significant as perceived by students. Faculty members perceive only preparing basic and applied research, feasibility and industry studies, and formal course on research methods to be the highly significant factor in the development of research skills. It also noted that awareness on plagiarism and reference to other school materials are the main factors in the development of the skill, as perceived by students and faculty members, respectively.

Students perceive Mandatory CPE programs to be helpful in the development of ACR skills, whereas faculty members do not. While the notion that the development of ACR skills is developed more through experience than classroom learning are not highly significant to both faculty and students, students placed high significance on DLSU’s participation in the development of the skill in contrast with the faculty perceptions. At the end of the paper, conflicting opinions as to why the development of ACR skills is hampered in accounting education are presented. 

Future research for this study should be geared towards formulation of policies and programs toward the development of ACR skills, increasing the geographical scope of the study, the consideration and assessment of other skills necessary in the accountancy profession.

N.B. This paper was written for the course ACT612M (Philosophy of Science and Scientific Methods) taken during Term 3, SY 2005 - 2006. Please do not cite. Thank you."

Comparative education is a fully established academic field of study that examines education in one country (or group of countries) by using data and insights drawn from the practises and situation in another country, or countries (Wikihow, 2013). This study it aimed at enlightening business students to the scope of comparative business education and its approaches, affording them the opportunity to have a better understanding of the subject and to know the various methods which can be used to study the discipline. Also, exposing the students to foreign education systems such as Japanese education, America, education in France, Brazil, Nigeria and England will afford the students the opportunity to understand what is going on in the area of education in other countries of the world. This will also help them to be in the position to compare and contrast the practices of education in Nigeria and other countries of the world.

Purpose – the purpose of this article is to review a quasi-experiment study examining whether business students’ math anxiety is reduced after participating in mandala coloring activities.

Research methodology – the research methodology integrated quantitative methods including independent t-tests and ANOVAs in a non-random convenient sample of 106 undergraduate students in 2018 in Texas, United States.

Findings – results from the one-way ANOVA and t-test analyses revealed that anxiety levels differed across groups, such that after coloring a pre-drawn mandala, math anxiety was significantly reduced in comparison to the control (doodling) group. Paired sample t tests also demonstrated that when comparing the anxiety levels at the baseline and post-treatment, math anxiety was reduced after performing both the pre-drawn and free-coloring mandala activities. Additionally, an independent sample t-test and a two-by-two factorial ANOVA demonstrated that males experienced a significant reduction in their math anxiety than the females did after performing the mandala coloring activity.

Research limitations – the study used a convenient sample, self-reported items, and a math anxiety measurement. Also, the findings found short-term evidence of math anxiety.

Practical implications – the findings of this study suggest that business statistics instructors who integrate a mandala coloring activity in anxiety-provoking undertakings may help to reduce their students’ math anxiety.

Originality/Value – This study is the first to investigate mandala coloring to reduce math anxiety in business students. Unlike previous studies that focus on anxiety in general, this study examines the benefit of mandala coloring on students’ math anxiety.

The study sought to find out strategies considered effective by accounting lecturers for teaching accounting in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. One research question guided the study and three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A total of 121 accounting lecturers constituted the population. No sampling was made since the population was manageable. A structured questionnaire validated by three experts with a reliability coefficient of 0.80 was the instrument for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions; z-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for testing the null hypotheses. Data analysis revealed that JITT strategy, collaboration strategy, work-based strategy, problem based strategy among others were considered effective for teaching accounting. On the other hand student generated content, lecture methods, among others were considered to be ineffective for teaching accounting. The data also revealed that gender, experience and type of institution had no significant influence on the respondents' consideration of effective strategies for teaching accounting. Based on the results of the findings, it was recommended, among others that accounting lecturers should always use those strategies characterized by student-centred oriented approach when teaching accounting for better performance of accounting students. As for those strategies characterized by teacher-centred approach, accounting lecturers should incorporate or blend them with those of student-centred oriented approach for effective teaching and learning of accounting.