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Adapting Case-Based Teaching to Large Class Settings: An Action Research Approach

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  • John Doran
  • Margaret Healy
  • Maeve McCutcheon
  • Steve O'Callaghan

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While literature points to significant benefits from using case-based teaching in accounting education, the extent to which these benefits can be obtained with large undergraduate classes is not evident. Using an action research approach, strategies for the use of case-based teaching in large classes at an Irish university were developed and evaluated. Insights into the nature of the challenges facing lecturers and students in the large class setting were obtained. The researchers found that, by using appropriate strategies, case studies can be successfully delivered in large class settings, as measured against criteria derived from the literature. The action research method proved effective in the reflection on and development of these strategies. However, despite the success of the strategies that were developed, there were important aspects of the students' and lecturers' responses in this setting that had an impact on the benefits realized.

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  • John Doran & Margaret Healy & Maeve McCutcheon & Steve O'Callaghan, 2011. "Adapting Case-Based Teaching to Large Class Settings: An Action Research Approach," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 245-263.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accted:v:20:y:2011:i:3:p:245-263
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2011.583742
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    1. Key, Kimberly & Healy, Margaret & Mulligan, Emer, 2022. "Closing the cultural intelligence skills gap in accounting students: An action research approach to cross-cultural teamwork," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 54(3).
    2. Tan, Hwee Cheng, 2019. "Using a structured collaborative learning approach in a case-based management accounting course," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).
    3. Fred Phillips & Regan N. Schmidt, 2016. "Accounting Students’ Planning, Writing, and Performance on a Time‐Constrained Case Analysis: Effects of Self‐Talk and Prior Achievement," Accounting Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(4), pages 311-329, December.
    4. Braun, Karen W., 2013. "Custom fabric ventures: An instructional resource in job costing for the introductory managerial accounting course," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 400-429.
    5. Apostolou, Barbara & Dorminey, Jack W. & Hassell, John M. & Watson, Stephanie F., 2013. "Accounting education literature review (2010–2012)," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 107-161.
    6. Trejo-Pech, Carlos J. O. & White, Susan, 2017. "Uso de estudos de caso em cursos de graduação em Administração de Empresas," RAE - Revista de Administração de Empresas, FGV-EAESP Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (Brazil), vol. 57(4), August.
    7. Ivo De Loo & Jan Bots, 2018. "The life of an accounting information systems research course," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 358-382, July.

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