Surveys of Two Sections of a Cost Accounting Course to Determine Students’ Overall Experience Using an Online Homework System and Whether it Helped the Students Obtain a Better Understanding of the Topics Presented in the Course

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Surveys of Two Sections of a Cost Accounting Course to Determine Students’ Overall Experience Using an Online Homework System and Whether it Helped the Students Obtain a Better Understanding of the Topics Presented in the Course Rosemarie Carroll Abstract This article presents the result of surveys that were administered to two sections of a cost accounting course. The purpose of the surveys was to determine students’ overall experience using an online homework system and whether it helped the students obtain a better understanding of the topics presented in the course. The two sections of the cost accounting course were taught by two different professors.Homework was part of the overall grade in day section while it was not in the evening section. Even though the sections were taught by different professors both followed the same syllabus. The survey questions were answered anonymously by the students. The evening class had a sample size of 23 students and the day class had a sample size of 23. In conclusion it appears that the students of the classes surveyed had a positive experience using the online homework system. It also appears that the use of the online homework was an effective tool in gaining a better understanding of the topics. An interesting result was that the students did not make use of the additional tools for example, multimedia library, which is included in the online homework system. It appears that the students believe that these tools have little or no effect on the time spent on their studies. This could serve as a basis for additional studies to find out why the students feel this way and see what can be done to introduce these tools to the students. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/ijat.v5n2a2