Caso-problema no ensino de contabilidade introdutória : um estudo da percepção dos alunos do curso de graduação quanto à sua aplicabilidade no desenvolvimento de competências e habilidades

Abstract

This study it objectified allowed us to make a comparison of approach Problem-based Learning with the conventional mode of teaching. The findings show that perceptions of the students it looked for to verifying the valid, utility and applicability of the Problem-Case of the teaching technique. Development of competences and abilities were searched inquired through of the assessment instrument for it the efficiency in the high education of the teaching in Introductory Accounting. The results of it research carried out by three High School in São Paulo. Therefore it the fieldwork during of the 2006 with cross-section 105 students answered analyse for statistic no-parametric. To achieve the proposed goal, an experimental research was carried out on 2007 with cross-section 78 students, regardless of the fieldwork, had allowed to evidence a positive efficiency of the Problem-Case for the development of competences and abilities in the classroom in Introductory Accounting, administered for the teacher and researcher these work paper. The research had identified a perception of the students the conventional mode of teaching process-learning to be "non-relevant, passive, and boring". Students who used the combination of both the conventional and Case-Problem method showed better gratified.