STUDENTS’ PREFERENCES FOR ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING IN ACCOUNTANCY SUBJECT: A STUDY OF ANAND DISTRICT

OBJECTIVES

·        To understand the introduction of variety of activity based teaching methods requiring active involvement of the students during the class and reducing one way discussion in the traditional lecture method which make students passive listener having less retention ratio of subject inputs.

SUMMARY

Higher education in recent years has undergone important paradigm shifts; especially shift from the teacher-centric to a learner-centric system. Teaching of various subjects and engaging students meaningfully in the classroom have become truly challenging. It has been observed that students retain more information when active learning methods are used in the classroom. Of Course, Lecturing method has its own merits, but it’s not always the best way to teach certain concepts of accountancy. Often, students learn better through hands-on activities. In higher education, teacher has to apply different learning strategy, such as fun learning activities for students, active learning games and lesson plans etc. Generally, chalk and talk method is very popular in teaching accountancy subject but to make learning interesting, we have developed an Activity for cost accounting. The activity was performed in undergraduate classes and thereafter an assessment was made about retention of information. The results were encouraging so the researchers were further interested in knowing their preferences towards activity based learning in Accountancy subject. This research is focused on: Does students prefer Activity based learning in Accountancy subject? Is it an effective way to learn Accountancy? etc. The study reveals that Activity based learning is better than chalk and talk method, retention ratio will increase, attendance in class and confidence level of the students will improve. Learning becomes fun and the subject can be leant without burden. It also develops other skills like creative and communication skill, teamwork etc. among students.