Journal article
Motivating creativity through appropriate assessment: lessons for management accounting educators
e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.2(2), pp.12-27
2008
Abstract
Creativity is important whenever the problem is unstructured and novel and effective solutions are required. Such heuristic problem solving is increasingly recognized as an important skill for management accountants. This paper presents a concept of creativity and a model of the creative process from the psychology literature that will be of value to business educators from all disciplines. Specific examples are provided from management accounting to demonstrate how the educator can appropriately structure teaching activities to develop necessary domain relevant skills and introduce extrinsic motivators to 'push' students through the 'perspiration' phases of the creative process while avoiding extrinsic motivators that might decrease intrinsic motivation in the problem identification and idea generation phases.
Details
- Title
- Motivating creativity through appropriate assessment: lessons for management accounting educators
- Authors
- Monte Wynder (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Business
- Publication details
- e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.2(2), pp.12-27
- Publisher
- Australian Business Education Research Association
- Date published
- 2008
- ISSN
- 1835-9132
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2008 EJBEST. Reproduced with permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450259502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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