Received:
2018-09-20 | Accepted:
2018-12-15 | Published:
2018-12-30
Title
Developmental review program impact on enhancing the effectiveness of "Teaching and Learning" in accounting program: a case study in a Saudi University
Abstract
Liberalization and globalization has opened up new and compelling challenges in the higher education section. Quality is invariably one of the factors that help educational institutions to remain relevant and thrive in the current highly competitive scenario, Quality in higher education is, as such, a hot topic and there is no paucity of literature in this regards. However, a fair review of the literature showed that there is scant literature about the impact of developmental review for enhancing of effectiveness of accounting program. The present work has attempted to bridge this gap in literature. The study has focused on Standard four – "Education and Learning" in the accounting program of a university in Saudi Arabia. The results of the study showed that there is profound positive impact of the developmental review towards the implementation of the requirements of standard four in the program. A few suggestions based on the study are also presented.
Keywords
higher education, accreditation, developmental review program, NCAAA, standard four, teaching and learning
JEL classifications
M40
, I23
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/266
DOI
Pages
1001-1017
Funding
This project was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia under the research project #2015/02/4273.
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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