Games in the classroom? Analysis of their effects on financial accounting marks in higher education

© 2021. © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. This document is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in The International Journal of Management Education. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100584The purpose of this study is to examine Kahoot! in higher education, specifically in subjects of financial accounting, and explore if its use means higher marks. We analyze the marks of 232 students of Financial Accounting of the Business and Management Degree of the University of Murcia (Spain). The sample comprises two groups of students, depending on whether or not games are used in the classroom, and the marks of the continuous assessment exercises, the final exam, and the final mark in the subject are compared to check if there are differences between groups. This means that we finally analyze a database of 794 marks. The results indicate that students who played get better academic results than those who did not use Kahoot! The current pandemic situation has changed the way of teaching and at university, it is mainly virtual, which can make teaching and learning more tedious and less motivating. For this reason, the use of gamification can be easily implemented in order to avoid all these inconveniences and positively affect the students’ marks

Educación Superior y tutoría: uso del aula virtual en contabilidad

La tutoria és una eina clau en lensenyament universitari que ha evolucionat cap a tutoria virtual. L'objectiu del present treball és realitzar una classificació de les tutories virtuals, per posteriorment analitzar si vénen determinades pel sexe dels estudiants, el fet que es tracti d'un treball fi de grau o màster, o el mitjà concret a través del qual es realitzen. Per això s'ha confeccionat una base de dades amb 807 tutories virtuals en assignatures de comptabilitat, a partir de la qual se n'ha realitzat una classificació i una anàlisi explicativa amb un model de regressió categòrica amb escalament òptim. Les conclusions principals obtingudes subratllen que la tutoria virtual se segueix utilitzant amb finalitats acadèmiques i sobretot la importància que cobra aquest tipus de tutoria a l'assignatura de treballs finals.Tutoring is an important part of the teaching at the University that now is mainly done through ICT. The objective of this paper is to obtain a classification of virtual tutoring and to study if it is influenced by other variables such as students´ gender, subject or way used to do the question of the tutoring. We have elaborated a database from 807 real virtual tutorings in subjects of accounting to classify them in different types using a descriptive analysis and proposing a categorical regression model (CATREG). As principal results can be highlighted that the use of virtual tutoring is academical and that they are very important in the subjects of final degree and master work.La tutoría es una herramienta clave en la enseñanza universitaria que ha evolucionado hacia tutoría virtual. El objetivo del presente trabajo es realizar una clasificación de las tutorías virtuales, para posteriormente analizar si vienen determinadas por el sexo de los estudiantes, el hecho de que se trate de un trabajo fin de grado o máster, o el medio concreto a través del que se realizan. Para ello se ha confeccionado un base de datos con 807 tutorías virtuales en asignaturas de contabilidad, a partir de la que se ha realizado una clasificación de las mismas y un análisis explicativo con un modelo de regresión categórica con escalamiento óptimo. Las principales conclusiones obtenidas subrayan que la tutoría virtual se sigue utilizando con fines académicos y sobre todo la importancia que cobra este tipo de tutoría en la asignatura de trabajos finales

All-cause mortality in the cohorts of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (RIS) compared with the general population: 1997Ł2010

Abstract Background: Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has produced significant changes in mortality of HIVinfected persons. Our objective was to estimate mortality rates, standardized mortality ratios and excess mortality rates of cohorts of the AIDS Research Network (RIS) (CoRIS-MD and CoRIS) compared to the general population. Methods: We analysed data of CoRIS-MD and CoRIS cohorts from 1997 to 2010. We calculated: (i) all-cause mortality rates, (ii) standardized mortality ratio (SMR) and (iii) excess mortality rates for both cohort for 100 personyears (py) of follow-up, comparing all-cause mortality with that of the general population of similar age and gender. Results: Between 1997 and 2010, 8,214 HIV positive subjects were included, 2,453 (29.9%) in CoRIS-MD and 5,761 (70.1%) in CoRIS and 294 deaths were registered. All-cause mortality rate was 1.02 (95% CI 0.91-1.15) per 100 py, SMR was 6.8 (95% CI 5.9-7.9) and excess mortality rate was 0.8 (95% CI 0.7-0.9) per 100 py. Mortality was higher in patients with AIDS, hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection, and those from CoRIS-MD cohort (1997. Conclusion: Mortality among HIV-positive persons remains higher than that of the general population of similar age and sex, with significant differences depending on the history of AIDS or HCV coinfection