Fostering Deep Approach to Learning for Principles of Accounting through ICT Integration in Malaysian Secondary Schools

Abstract

This paper discusses about the challenges of fostering students’ deep approach to learning for introductory accounting education in Malaysian secondary schools. It also highlights the endeavours undertaken by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to transform the accounting educational landscape with the integration of ICT in teaching and learning. It is believed that students are unable to experience deep approach to learning due to the teacher-centred learning approach which is influenced by the exam-oriented education system and the immaturity of curriculum and assessment design. In view of these problems, the MOE has revised the curriculum and assessment from content based to skilled-based with the aims of enabling students to practise deep approach to learning with ICT. This is the right step forward to enable students to have a coherent understanding of accounting through enhancing their competencies in preparing a full set of accounts, attaining meaningful learning by relating what they learn in class to the actual working place, and acquiring various soft skills and ethical values of the accounting profession.