Abstract During the Summer of 1968, Hofstra University offered a five-week workshop for prospective teachers of college placement accounting. The workshop was organized as a three-credit course in the Hofstra School of Education. The workshop was organized as a three-credit course in the Hofstra School of Education. The workshop produced a tangible and entirely practicable high school course in college placement accounting. In addition, the give and take of the workshop produced a more important result-a noticeable change of the participants' orientation. The workshop began with the participants questioning whether accounting should and could be taught at the high school level as an academic subject, and concluded with their designing of a general education oriented accounting course that would do credit to many college departments of accounting. The workshop more than fulfilled its objectives, both stated and unstated, of producing instructors equipped and motivated to teach the first semester of the college placement accounting course in their respective high schools. In the future, more such workshops will be scheduled, some perhaps at other high school and college levels and hopefully in different geographical areas. As more high schools offer such courses, it will become possible to use workshops as a means of collecting and sharing experiences and techniques, as well as for the original purpose of training the instructors.
Pescow et al. (Tue,) studied this question.