MyLab Accounting enhances student success
Pearson | October 29, 2021 in Meaningful Outcomes
by Pearson
MyLab Accounting contributes to student success
In Spring 2018, Professor Nancy Emerson from North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND partnered with Pearson to investigate the impact of MyLab™ Accounting for Horngren’s Financial & Managerial Accounting by Nobles, Mattison, and Matsumura on student success in her Elements of Accounting II course.
Researchers found that:
- There’s a strong, positive correlation between average MyLab quiz scores and average exam scores.
- Students who earned higher average MyLab quiz scores also earned higher final course grades.
- 94% of respondents on an end-of-semester survey agreed that MyLab Accounting provided additional resources that helped them learn more than they would have from traditional pencil-and-paper homework.
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Why does Professor Nancy Emerson utilize MyLab Accounting?
Having previously used a competitor’s digital homework program to address the issue of grading homework with large sections, Emerson was seeking a new option when her program began experiencing technology-related issues.
In Fall 2014, Emerson adopted MyLab Accounting as she thought the online homework with support and feedback was important and it offered students the ability to practice, while immediately seeing what they understood and where they needed further preparation.
How was MyLab Accounting implemented?
Elements of Accounting II is a one-semester, three-credit course that is the second semester of a two-semester sequence. Students use MyLab for understanding content, homework assignments, and quizzing. Because the goal in assigning homework is practice, students have two attempts at completion with firm due dates. Each assignment is comprised of 4–6 multi-part, algorithmic, end-of-chapter problems.
MyLab quizzes are comprised of either multiple-choice questions or one multi-part problem, and students have just one attempt and 25 minutes for completion. The lowest quiz score is dropped prior to calculating the final quiz score recorded in the gradebook. MyLab assignments account for 17% of the total course grade.
Were students successful in the course?
Final course letter grades are considered using the average MyLab quiz score, identifying that students earning higher average MyLab quiz scores also earned higher final course grades.
- Students earning an A as their final course grade had average MyLab quiz scores 25 percentage points higher than students who earned a C as their final course grade.
Further, there was a strong positive correlation between average MyLab quiz scores and average exam scores.
Did students like using MyLab Accounting?
Responses from the Spring 2018, end-of-semester survey of Emerson’s students indicate that the majority of responding students recognize the value of MyLab Accounting.
- 94% of respondents agreed that MyLab provided additional resources that helped them learn more than they would have from traditional paper-and-pencil homework.
- 89% of respondents agreed that their understanding of the course material increased as a result of using MyLab and it positively impacted their exam scores.
One student said:
“I learned a lot using MyLab. I loved Help Me Solve This, and the homework really did help me understand the concepts that were taught in class.”
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