Investigating the Dimensions of Accounting Students Academic Engagement in E-learning Programs of Universities

The global outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has led to fundamental changes in educational approaches in Iran. Under such circumstances, higher education institutions conducted all their educational programs only online. Therefore, Therefore, the present study has examined the importance and status the Dimensions of accounting students’ academic engagement in an e-learning environment. The statistical population consists accounting students of University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Shahid Beheshti University, Tarbiat Modares University, and Alzahra University in all academic levels. In this study to measure elearning engagement, Redmond et al (2018) questionnaire is used. This questionnaire included 24 concepts related to the Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education. The function of the questionnaire in the educational environment of Iran was confirmed by university accounting professors. Statistical analysis was performed by using Amos and SPSS software.The measures of goodness of fit indeces confirmed the validity questionnaire. According to the Friedman test results, from the perspective of accounting students in an electronic learning environment, behavioral, cognitive, social, participatory and emotional engagement are the most important, respectively. The results of one-sample t-test show there is a significant difference between mean scores dimensions of social, cognitive, behavioral, colabrative and emotional engagement from the test value (mean 3). According to the accounting students, all of the studied dimensions were below average.