The Effect of Teaching Method STAD, JIGSAW and Virtual Education on Achieving Students' Cognitive Goals of Financial Statements Based on Bloom's Classification Nahid Abedi PhD Candidate, Department of Accounting, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran. E-mail: ad.abedi3204@gmail.com Ali Asghar Taherabadi *Corresponding Author, Assistant Prof., Department of Accounting, Kangavar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kangavar, Iran. E-mail: a.taherabadi@iauksh.ac.ir Farshid Kheirollahi Assistant Prof., Department of Accounting, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. E-mail: f.kheirollahi@razi.ac.ir Babak Jamshidi Navid Assistant Prof., Department of Accounting, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran. E-mail: jamshidinavid@iauksh.ac.ir Abstract Objective: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of learning methods including STAD, JIGSAW and virtual education on achieving students' cognitive goals of financial statements based on Bloom's classification. Methods: In this study, the extent of learning is divided according to Bloom's classification into six levels of knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, composition and evaluation. Pre-testing and post-testing techniques were used to collect data and analysis of covariance and Scheffe post-hoc test was utilized to examine the hypothesis. The statistical population of the study includes all students of accounting at Islamic Azad University of Jiroft, taking intermediate accounting 1 course, during the first and second semesters of the academic year 2019-2020. The study sample includes four intermediate accounting 1 course groups, namely 105 people (80 in three experimental groups and 25 in control groups), all four groups are taught by one of the researchers and the final grades of the students were considered as their learning index.