Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

American Journal of Business Education

Volume

2

Issue Number

3

First Page

39

Last Page

48

Keywords

ratchet student, accounting, grading, proofreading

Disciplines

Accounting | Business | Finance and Financial Management

Abstract

Accounting educators struggle with ways to incorporate the development of critical thinking and communication skills into the curriculum. Case analysis is one tool for developing these skills. We examine whether students’ case analysis scores improve as a result of participation in peer grading and peer review. We find that students improve their ability to perform case analyses after both evaluating and being evaluated by student peers. Students initially experience an Expectation Ratcheting learning effect after evaluating the case of a peer. Subsequently, students experience an Enhanced Feedback learning effect from the comments and suggestions made by the peers who evaluated (proofread) their cases.

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Copyright © 2009 The Clute Institute.

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