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Cognitive Apprenticeship in Accounting EducationPreparing Students for the Profession

Nona Muldoon and Jennifer Kofoed

Implementing the seven principles

Second Life Machinima as a learning anchor

Real life dilemmas

Cognitive apprenticeship in practice

Modelling (on-campus)

FadingCoaching

Modelling (off-campus)

Constructive alignment in practice

Design-based research

322 students

Students’ perceptions of their learning experience

Comparative course results

Impact of the apprenticeship model

• Emphasised the relationship of content knowledge and thought processes to perform authentic task.

• Students benefited from the opportunity to collaborate, reflect and scaffold from members of their audit team.

• “The Hird & Co scenario made the course more life like and made the tough course interesting.”

• “It forces you to consider things differently to the way you would normally look at them and opens your mind to other possibilities.”

Impact of curriculum alignment

• Students appreciated the linking of all curriculum elements and were motivated to learn

• Facilitated a high level of active engagement and participation across all cohorts of students

• “I could appreciate how the weekly group tasks were building towards the assessment”

• “I can honestly say I have never learnt more in a subject and truly appreciate the structure of the course”

Concluding remarks

“I think that personally I have gained many skills and attributes from this task... It has been amazing to see through my journals how our team and myself as a person grew throughout this term.” Student T1 2008

Nona Muldoon Jennifer KofoedEmail: n.muldoon@cqu.edu.au Email: j.kofoed@cqu.edu.au

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