Student Guide Corner

(If you would like for me to send you an email whenever I post a new blog entry, just drop me a note at Jhoyle@richmond.edu and I'll add you to my list.) On October 1, 2017, I posted the first of a two-part blog entry on the importance of the 2-4 days after the first test of the semester.  This initial essay included an email that I sent to my current students immediately after their first test.   My assumption has long been that students are most interested in how to do well in a course as they leave the first test.   The email encouraged them to consider two specific aspects of their post-test assessment.  First, if they felt they had not done well, I made three suggestions about what might have gone wrong.   It is hard to improve without some identification of the problem.  Students who do not do as well as they had hoped should come up with an honest ending to this sentence prompt, �I did not do well on the first test because . . .� ...

On Friday morning, April 8, 2016, I will be speaking at the Ohio region meeting of the American Accounting Association on the topic of �Perspectives of High-Quality Teaching.�   If you are in the Cleveland area, I hope you will show up.  I would love to meet you and chat about teaching.   Here�s the URL. http://aaahq.org/meetings/2016/ohio-midyear-meeting ** I am teaching three classes this semester�two Intermediate Accounting II classes and one Financial Accounting class.  I have 78 students.   I realize that some of you teach hundreds but, for me, 78 is a fairly large number.  That provides some challenges when trying to get each student to do outstanding work. I always give three tests every semester and a final exam.   I believe that gives the students a chance to show me what they have really learned.   After the first two tests, I usually have a good group (50-60 percent) who are doing well and have an excellent chan...

This will be my 201 st entry on this blog.   That is roughly 190 more than I expected to write when I first began.    Over the years, the blog has had 130,000 page views and was recently named one of the top 50 blogs in accounting for 2014.    ( http://www.accounting-degree.org/50-best-accounting-blogs-of-2014/ )     Unfortunately, it was the only blog on the list that dealt with education.    I would honestly love to be reading 50 different blogs about teaching and learning.     At that point, I think college education could really begin to improve.    So, start a blog.    Share your opinions.    Share your questions.    Share your doubts.    Share your frustrations.    We need more of that.    You will never be able to estimate how much the blogging process can improve your own teaching until you start typing and posting. As always, I want to pass al...