Rate My Professor Nicola Beatson

Beatson's research specializes in accounting education, emphasizing non-cognitive factors including self-efficacy beliefs, sense of belonging, peer and teacher feedback, and technology use in enhancing student achievement and engagement. Notable publications include "The influence of self‐efficacy beliefs and prior learning on performance" (2020), "Sense of belonging during a global pandemic: a case of accounting students" (2022), "An examination of self‐efficacy and sense of belonging on accounting student achievement" (2023), and "Unpacking student responses to discrepant peer and teacher feedback: a cross-national comparison" (2025). Her findings highlight self-efficacy as a superior predictor of accounting success compared to prior academic preparation. Beatson has earned prestigious teaching honors: Otago Teaching Excellence Award (2019), Overall Premier Lecturer (2018), Premier Commerce Teaching Award (2017), OUSA Top Ten Lecturers (2015), and Disability Information and Support Appreciation Award (2016). She won the 2017 University of Otago Three-Minute Thesis competition with "Confidence Matters." Professionally, she contributed to the AFAANZ Accounting Education Special Interest Group organising committee since 2015, served on conference technical committees, acted as Associate Editor for Accounting Education, and joined the Journal of Accounting Education's editorial review board. Her scholarship has garnered 793 citations per Google Scholar.