Accounting Education research. Gaining the deserved recognition

Abstract

Research in accounting education has been considered, in terms of research, the poor sister among the different sub-disciplines of accounting (accounting being already the poor sister among the disciplines related to economics and business). The way to assess the quality of a paper, based in the metrics of the journal in which it has been published and, sometimes, in the number of citations in other academic journals is not the best way to measure the relevance of this kind of academic outputs. The impact on classroom dialogue, as Sangster et al. (2015) highlight, is probably the most relevant one. For certain papers the most relevant should be the impact on education policies or curricular design (e.g. those papers dealing with objectives, etc.). As Chow et al. (2007) and Reinstein et al., (2011) note, practitioner or pedagogy-focused articles may significantly influence policy, practice, approaches to teaching, or educational materials with no explicit published cited work.