One of the major objectives of higher education at the graduate level is to improve the research skills of students so that they can become independent researchers. Graduate students in general and students of accounting and finance management in particular are expected to be very proficient in research skills. As there has been no study on the Iranian graduate students’ research skills, this study was conducted to find out the extent to which they were familiar with professional research resources. Based on the results of this study, the main objective of this paper was to analyze the data on familiarity of these students with professional research sources. Furthermore, the paper elaborated on the factors influencing the level of familiarity. The study was conducted in the winter of 2008 on a sample of graduate students of Tehran University and Allameh Tabatabaee University. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire. Our findings indicated that the level of familiarity with research sources was very low among accounting and finance management students. Among the factors which correlated with students’ familiarity with the sources were the type of university, and level and field of education
Bazargan, A., Modarres, A., & Rafiee, A. (2009). Accounting and Finance Management Graduate Students’ Familiarity with Professional Research Sources. Higher Education Letter, 2(5), 9-26.
MLA
Abass Bazargan; Ahmad Modarres; Afsaneh Rafiee. "Accounting and Finance Management Graduate Students’ Familiarity with Professional Research Sources". Higher Education Letter, 2, 5, 2009, 9-26.
HARVARD
Bazargan, A., Modarres, A., Rafiee, A. (2009). 'Accounting and Finance Management Graduate Students’ Familiarity with Professional Research Sources', Higher Education Letter, 2(5), pp. 9-26.
VANCOUVER
Bazargan, A., Modarres, A., Rafiee, A. Accounting and Finance Management Graduate Students’ Familiarity with Professional Research Sources. Higher Education Letter, 2009; 2(5): 9-26.
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