Application of an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Course to Enhance the Knowledge of Sustainable Finance of International Chinese College Students in Thailand

Abstract

The aim of this study was to build an ESG course for integration into a Financial Statement Analysis course to develop the knowledge of sustainable finance of international Chinese college students in Thailand. The study was based on a quasi-experimental design and a total of 108 international Chinese students majoring in finance in Thailand participated in the research. 58 of them were assigned to the experimental group, and the remaining 50 to the control group. The intervention of the ESG course was applied to the experimental group for a 45-hour’ period over 6 weeks, while the control group received traditional teaching in the same period of the class schedule. At the same time, an ESG learning assessment was applied to a pre-test and post-test and the data was subjected to a statistical analysis. The results of a oneway ANCOVA showed that the performance of the experimental group on the ESG learning assessment was better than that of the control group.