Gamifying a Flipped First Year Accounting Classroom Using Kahoot!

Abstract

Accounting is often perceived as boring, difficult, methodical and being all about number crunching by a lot of students and society in general. These negative perceptions impact on students' learning and their approach to the study of accounting. Additionally, studying accounting in English as a second language as well as in the first year of university compounds the amount of problems students may face, adversely affecting their performance. In a bid to address these problems, the flipped classroom approach was employed and its benefits complemented and enhanced by gamification using Kahoot! The aim of this paper is to share with accounting educators and other educators dealing with similar issues on how to engage students in a large lecture setting, in a flipped classroom model. Whilst a lot of studies have been conducted and much has been written on the use of Kahoot! in the classroom, not much has been done in the context of using the tool in a flipped accounting lecture. The benefits of gamification, flipped classroom, quizzes and feedback have been validated in the literature and have been reviewed in this paper. Kahoot! offered several benefits to

Teachers’ Perception of Advantages and Disadvantages of Kahoot!

“…Susanti (2017) found that Kahoot helps students express their point of view in class and wakes them up from their slumber in class. In the same vain, Nkhoma, Nkhoma, Thomas and Tu (2018) reported that Kahoot provides feedback, helps check students' understanding and give the lecturer the opportunity to engage with a large number of students. Furthermore, ISSN 1927-6028 E-ISSN 1927 Kahoot is also reported to increase class participation (Parra-Santos, Molina-Jorda, Casanova-Pastor & Maiorano-Lauria, 2018) and reduce teacher's workload (de Sousa, 2018).…”

Examining the use of Kahoot to support digital game-based formative assessments in UAE higher education

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