Journal of Education for Business back issues from May 2009:
Assessment of student learning: a fast-track experience.
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The professional accreditation agencies are making demands for assessment of student learning. These demands are not expected to lessen in the near future. The accreditation agencies are suggesting that educators should shift their locus from what faculty teach to what students ...
Using an online homework system to submit accounting homework: role of cognitive need, computer efficacy, and perception.
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The author investigated whether students' effort in working on homework problems was affected by their need for cognition, their perception of the system, and their computer efficacy when instructors used an online system to collect accounting homework. Results showed that ...
An efficiency comparison of MBA programs: top 10 versus non-top 10.(Master of business administration)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors compared the cohort group of the top-10 MBA programs in the United States with their lower-ranking counterparts on their value-added efficiency. The findings reveal that the top-10 MBA programs in the United States are associated with statistically higher average ...
Successful applications of the balanced scorecard in higher education.
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Are there management tools that professionals use in business that academics have used successfully in higher education? The answer to that question is yes, and the balanced scorecard (BSC) is one such tool. The author reports on measures that administrators chose for the BSCs of ...
Applying for initial AACSB accreditation: an exploratory study to identify costs.(Advance Collegiate Schools of Business )
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors identified the type and magnitude of costs colleges and schools incur when seeking Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International accreditation. This issue is important to the 156 schools and colleges currently seeking initial ...
Socially-oriented ventures and traditional entrepreneurship education models: a case review.
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. As an academic area of study, entrepreneurship has become institutionalized and now includes students from a diverse range of disciplinary fields (M. M. Mars, 2006, 2007). Consequently, students' range of entrepreneurial interests has also become more diverse in scope and nature ....
How important are items on a student evaluation? A study of item salience.(Survey)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) have been the subject of numerous research studies, the salience of SET items to students has not been examined. In the present study, the authors surveyed 484 students from a large public university. The authors suggest that not ...
The multifaceted nature of online MBA student satisfaction and impacts on behavioral intentions.(Master of business administration )(Survey)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors analyzed surveys gathered from 277 students enrolled in online MBA courses at a large university in the Midwest. As the authors expected, student satisfaction in the survey comprised 5 factors: satisfaction with faculty practices, learning practices, course materials, ...
An analysis of the curricula of business administration departments in Turkish universities with the perspective of civil society awareness.(VIEWPOINT)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors' goal was to analyze the curricula of business administration departments in state and private universities in Turkey, which have been offering courses such as business and society, social responsibility, business ethics, and management of nongovernmental ...
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press. 2007.531 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12020-1. $35. Rakesh Khurana warns readers ...