Abstract The article examines the sources of interdisciplinary support for accounting education research. Well-articulated theories and full use of related literatures, especially those of higher education and educational psychology, are needed to guide accounting education research. To this end, the paper "Framework for the Development of Accounting Education Research," reviews and synthesizes literature from the field of education, a literature unknown to most accountants. To provide accounting educators with continuing access to this large, well-established literature, the journal "Issues in Accounting Education" recently instituted a section called "Education Research Abstracts." This new section reports selected citations and abstracts from current education literature that bear on ace counting education research. A more comprehensive abstracting service is provided by the journal "Higher Education Abstracts," published quarterly by the Claremont Graduate School.
Daniel L. Jensen (Fri,) studied this question.