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                                     2) Online survey research               their instructor, Sarah, during

                                         using Qualtrics (a web-             a course focused on teacher
                                         based research                      research and classroom

                                         tool) was conducted to              discourse.
                                         examine accounting              2) Collective case-study

                                         faculty’s perceptions of            methodology informed the
                                         Excel technological skills          research design for this

                                         used in public accounting           study. A collective case

                                         and accounting education.           study involves the inclusion
                                     3) This study was conducted             of multiple cases associated

                                         through an online survey            with a particular issue,
                                         sent to students, via their         which allows for comparisons

                                         department chair or                 to be made (Creswell, 2008).
                                         program director, registered    3) A research in context (the

                                         in tourism programs in              real place where teacher s

                                         universities members of             and students perform their
                                         CONPETH (Pan-American               task) was carried out. In

                                         Confederation of Hotel,             this case, an actual

                                         Tourism, and Gastronomy).           laboratory class in organic
                                                                             chemistry at university level

                                                                             was investigated . A
                                                                             qualitative approach with

                                                                             non-participant observers
                                                                             was used.

               2      Research       1) The data collection              1) The focus group method of

                      instruments        instrument used was the             data collection was
                                         questionnaire, which was            selected as a qualitative

                                         designed expressly for this         approach. Semi-structured
                                         purpose and contains eight          discussion questions were

                                         sections.                           mainly used, allowing for a

                                     2) The survey instrument                relatively free response and
                                         consisted of an online              yet ensuring a degree of

                                         questionnaire, available in         comparability between the



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