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Defining and Assessing Team Skills of Business and Accountancy Students
Author: Alghalith, Nabil
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Accounting,Business Administration Education,Business Skills,Teamwork,Team Training,Skill Analysis,Definitions,Test Construction,Outcome Measures,Psychometrics,Task Analysis,Minimum Competencies,Interpersonal Competence,Scoring Rubrics,Leadership Qualities,Evaluation Methods,Higher Education

The objectives of the project are (1) to define the skills necessary for students to work effectively with others to achieve common goals, and (2) to develop an assessment instrument to measure student progress toward achieving these skills. The defined skill set will form a basis for common expectations related to team skills that will be shared with students and be used by faculty for setting goals, planning curriculum and pedagogy, and assessing student progress. Assessment data will be incorporated into the Division of Business and Accountancy's Continuous Improvement Plan and assessment cycle. The significance of this project is to ensure and demonstrate student learning related to teamwork, which is one of the key elements of the Division's newly adopted vision statement. The ability to demonstrate continuous improvement related to the Division's mission is vital to the re-accreditation of the business program. This project incorporated input from the entire faculty of the Division, and the results will be used by the entire faculty and shared with students in order to communicate expectations. This participative process will serve to enhance the culture of assessment in the Business Division among faculty and students. An original assessment instrument was developed to meet the needs of the Division's faculty, incorporating sources in the literature, results of a faculty survey, and student input obtained from portfolio entries. Results were disseminated in discipline and division meetings for faculty use, and will be available for sharing at the University planning day. A bibliography is included.
Can Students Change Their Homework Behavior after the Midterm? Does It Help?
Author: Kotas, P. M.
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Homework,Student Behavior,Behavior Change,Internet,Grades (Scholastic),Study Habits,Physics,Algebra,Time Factors (Learning),Time on Task,Problem Solving,Performance Based Assessment,Statistical Distributions,Correlation,Predictor Variables,College Science

Using the Internet to administer homework allows us to determine if students change their homework habits during a semester and if this change results in an improvement in grades.
Bricks and Clicks and the Future of the Academic Library
Author: Levesque, Nancy
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Academic Libraries,Librarian Teacher Cooperation,Library Services,Library Development,Influence of Technology,Information Technology,Electronic Libraries,Information Literacy,Case Studies,Library Role,Educational Development,Social Networks,Instructional Innovation,Foreign Countries

Today's librarians must create an engaging setting for teaching and learning by offering a welcoming library space, a wealth of online resources, combined with librarians' expertise and collaborative instruction programs. Rapid advances in information technologies, new methods of teaching and learning, and the changing makeup of university student populations are impacting the academic library. Working together, librarians and faculty can develop active learning experiences for students, and provide opportunities to integrate resources and discovery.
Teaching Workplace Skills through Integrative Exercises
Author: Eisner, Susan P.
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Workplace Literacy,Workplace Learning,Integrated Activities,College Students,Simulation,Interviews,Questioning Techniques,Listening Skills,Feedback (Response),Goal Orientation,Coaching (Performance),Conflict Resolution,Organizational Change,Decision Making Skills,Empowerment,Case Method (Teaching Technique),Vignettes,Check Lists,Skill Analysis,Student Evaluation,Instructional Effectiveness

This paper presents a set of three integrative exercises created to help college students develop workplace skills through simulation. Interviewing, listening, providing feedback, setting goals, empowering, coaching, managing change, handling conflict, and making decisions are clustered and modeled at intervals that synthesize course learning.
The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally
Author: Elkind, David
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Recreational Activities,Psychiatry,Child Development,Psychological Patterns,Social Development,Toys,Games,Imagination,Creativity

Although under attack from some goal-oriented politicians and parents and ofen considered superfluous by school administrators and teachers, free play remains vital to human health and creativity. Contrary to the notion that play should serve utilitarian ends or consist primarily of organized sports, the author makes a case for self-initiated physical play free of educational toys, computer games, and television, especially early in childhood but also throughout young life. Combining ideas from Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget, the author views play as one of three necessary elements of a full life, the others being work and love.
The Recess Debate: A Disjuncture between Educational Policy and Scientific Research
Author: Pellegrini, Anthony D.
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Recess Breaks,Educational Benefits,Interpersonal Competence,Academic Achievement,Standardized Tests,Comparative Education,Foreign Countries,Educational History,Educational Change,Cognitive Processes,Child Development

Some devalue recess because they assume it to be a waste of time. There is no theory or empirical evidence to support this point of view. There is, however, abundant and clear evidence that recess has beneficial effects on children's social competence and academic performance. The author tells how his interest in standardized tests led him to years of recess study, compares recess survey findings in the United States to those in the United Kingdom, and summarizes the benefits of recess for school performance.
The Cultural Origins and Play Philosophy of Playworkers: An Interview with Penny Wilson
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Children,Foreign Countries,Playgrounds,Recreational Facilities,Recreational Activities,Disabilities,Peer Relationship,Advocacy,Interviews,Personal Narratives,Childhood Needs,Child Development

Penny Wilson is a playworker--one of a group of professionals who facilitate children's play in adventure playgrounds, parks, and other settings, principally in the United Kingdom. Wilson grew up in the Southeast of England and spent much of her childhood playing on the coast near her family home. She studied illustration in art school, settled in London's East End, and came to playwork through a community program for children with disabilities. Over the course of two decades, she has earned distinction for helping such children--especially those with disabilities--play with their peers. Currently she works for the Play Association at Tower Hamlets, a second-tier, not-for-profit organization and play provider. She is an ambassador for playwork and has visited the United States several times to advocate for the incorporation of playworkers into American society. In this interview, she recounts how playwork originated in Great Britain, tells how playworkers view children's free play and how they facilitate it, describes Britain's adventure playgrounds, and elaborates on the play of children with disabilities.
Gun Play
Author: Mechling, Jay
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Weapons,Males,Children,Toys,Biological Influences,Aggression,Adolescents,Death,Imagination,Social Influences,Moral Issues

Biology and the particular gun culture of the United States come together to explain the persistent and powerful attraction of American boys to both real guns and toy guns. The 1990s saw adults begin to conflate &quot;the gun problem&quot; with &quot;the boy problem,&quot; sparking attempts (largely failed) to banish toy guns from homes and schools. Following the approach of play scholar Gregory Bateson, this article offers an understanding of play with guns, maintains this moral panic about boys and gun play is unfounded, and suggests some developmental and other benefits from boys' play with guns.
Academic Controversy in Macroeconomics: An Active and Collaborative Method to Increase Student Learning
Author: Santicola, Craig F.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Macroeconomics,Cooperative Learning,Economics Education,Quasiexperimental Design,Pretests Posttests,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Problem Based Learning,Achievement Gains,Hypothesis Testing,Participant Characteristics,Comparative Analysis,Comparative Testing,Scores,Educational Strategies,Business Administration Education,Higher Education,College Students

The literature indicates that there is a lack of learning outcomes in economics that can be attributed to the reliance on traditional lecture and the failure to adopt innovative instructional techniques. This study sought to investigate the student learning effects of academic controversy, a cooperative learning technique that shows promise in the area of economics instruction. A quasiexperimental pre-test, posttest design was used to compare a control group which received traditional lecture to a treatment group which received academic controversy lessons. Analysis of the data from the Test of Understanding in College Economics post-test suggests that the use of academic controversy had a positive impact on student learning. Implications of the study include providing a framework for academic controversy which shows promise for improving student learning in post-secondary macroeconomics.
Building Blocks and Cognitive Building Blocks: Playing to Know the World Mathematically
Author: Sarama, Julie
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Cognitive Development,Child Development,Mathematics Skills,Mathematical Concepts,Classification,Numeracy,Concept Formation,Geometric Concepts,Spatial Ability,Imagination,Standards,Perceptual Development,Perceptual Motor Learning,Thinking Skills,Young Children

The authors explore how children's play can support the development of the foundations of mathematics learning and how adults can support children's representation of--and thus the &quot;mathematization&quot; of--their play. The authors review research about the amount and nature of mathematics found in the free play of children. They briefly discuss how children develop different types of play and describe ways adults can support and guide each of these to encourage an understanding of mathematics and to enhance children's mathematical skills. The authors' activities described in this article and the time to prepare it were partially funded by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in the U.S. Department of Education and from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Improved Margin of Error Estimates for Proportions in Business: An Educational Example
Author: Arzumanyan, George
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Business Administration Education,Error of Measurement,Error Patterns,Intervals,Confidence Testing,Computation,Focus Groups,Benchmarking,Sampling,Equations (Mathematics),Measurement Techniques,Mathematical Concepts,Higher Education,Teaching Methods

This paper presents the Agresti &amp; Coull &quot;Adjusted Wald&quot; method for computing confidence intervals and margins of error for common proportion estimates. The presented method is easily implementable by business students and practitioners and provides more accurate estimates of proportions particularly in extreme samples and small sample situations. The proposed method may have particular applications to focus group analysis, industry benchmarking, and destructive testing sampling. The paper discusses a computational strategy and several comparison examples.
Discovering the Importance of Play through Personal Histories and Brain Images: An Interview with Stuart L. Brown
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Brain,Child Development,Interviews,Animals,Research,Personal Narratives,Medicine,Psychiatry,Friendship,Children,Video Games,Bullying,Resilience (Psychology),Risk,Anxiety

Stuart L. Brown is founder of the National Institute for Play, a California-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the notion that play can help transform the lives of individuals, families, schools, and organizations. Trained in general and internal medicine, psychiatry, and clinical research, Brown was a physician in the United States Navy, a fellow in internal medicine at the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, assistant dean at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, chief of psychiatry at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego, and voluntary clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He has written and lectured about play in numerous public and scholarly forums and has directed, coproduced, or produced several documentaries and learning series about play and similar topics for CBS, PBS, and BBC, including a National Geographic Society program on animals and humans at play and a PBS special titled &quot;The Promise of Play.&quot; His book, &quot;Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul,&quot; appeared earlier this year. In this interview, Brown discusses his passion for neurological research about play, how he came to it by studying animal play and play-deprived humans, and some of what he hopes to accomplish through the National Institute for Play. In &quot;Play&quot; Brown writes that he prefers describing or illustrating play to defining it, but here he concludes with a definition.
Foreign National Doctoral Students in U.S. Economics Programs
Author: Baker, Joe G.
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Economics,Economics Education,Doctoral Programs,Foreign Students,Enrollment Influences,Enrollment Trends,Graduate Students,Educational Quality,Income,Trend Analysis,Evidence,Employment Opportunities,Citizenship,Educational Attainment,Outcomes of Education,Academic Degrees,Awards

This paper examines why enrollment of foreign national students in U.S. economics graduate programs increased so dramatically since the 1960s. New information regarding the &quot;stay rates&quot; of foreign national students is examined. The paper concludes that growth in the number of foreign national economics graduate students was related to the quality of U.S. graduate programs, growth in foreign social science baccalaureate degree awards, growing foreign incomes, and movement of foreign economies towards markets. These trends were especially pronounced in Asia, where most foreign national economics students are from.
The Case for Arts Education as a Required Component of an Accounting Student?s College Education
Author: Mason, J. David
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Accounting,Business Administration Education,Art Education,Required Courses,Case Studies,Integrated Activities,Fused Curriculum,Student Characteristics,Professional Identity,Academic Achievement,Mathematics Achievement,Music Activities,Creativity,Lifelong Learning,Thinking Skills,Language Skills,Social Development,Educational Needs,Higher Education

A recent study has highlighted the importance of student perceptions of the accounting profession and the resultant self-selection process. This self-selection process may result in students self-selecting into the accounting area who are deficient in the essential qualities for success in the modern accounting profession. Warnock (1996) reports that among 1st year accounting students a still pervasive image of the accountant is that it is not particularly important to have either imagination or verbal qualities or communication or critical thinking skills and thus students who are weak in the above qualities often self-select into accounting as a major. The purpose of this paper is to introduce into the accounting literature the results of an emerging body of research that suggests arts education can enhance or help accounting students overcome these deficiencies.
Value-Based Delivery of Education: MOOCs as Messengers
Author: Gilfoil, David M.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Delivery Systems,Open Education,Open Source Technology,Online Courses,Models,Achievement Gains,Higher Education,Educational Improvement,Outcome Measures,Technology Planning,Instructional Design,Instructional Development,Student Evaluation,Business Administration Education,Health Care Costs

Value-based delivery of healthcare has been discussed in the literature for almost a decade. The concept focuses on the patient and defines value as the improvement of patient outcomes divided by healthcare costs. Further refinements, called the Triple Aim model, focus on improving patient outcomes, reducing treatment costs, and improving patient satisfaction. Inspired by the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) movement in education, which should be seen as a wake-up message for educators, this paper attempts to reframe MOOCs, and related educational initiatives, within a Value-Based Delivery of Education (VBDE) model. The VBDE model focuses on the student learner and defines value as the improvement of learning outcomes, reduction of educational costs, and improvement of student stakeholder satisfaction. VBDE model elements are operationally defined, quantified, and used to identify and assess key components of MOOC and MOOC-related initiatives. Implications for the successful delivery of value-based education in the future are discussed as part one of a two-paper series on the topic.
Play Therapy: Practice, Issues, and Trends
Author: Homeyer, Linda E.
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play Therapy,Young Children,Mental Health,Intervention,Outcomes of Treatment,Allied Health Personnel,Natural Disasters,Family Counseling,Parent Child Relationship,Training

Play therapy is an effective means of responding to the mental health needs of young children and is widely accepted as a valuable and developmentally appropriate intervention. The authors discuss the importance of play in development, the therapeutic benefits of play, the rich history of play therapy, and recent research and current issues and trends in the field, including the need for more mental health professionals trained to work with children.
Building Entrepreneurial Teamwork Competencies in Collaborative Learning via Peer Assessments
Author: Hackbert, Peter H.
Date: 2004-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teamwork,Team Training,Cooperative Learning,Entrepreneurship,Peer Evaluation,Competency Based Education,Feedback (Response),Student Evaluation,Performance Based Assessment,Group Dynamics,Grading,Individual Differences,Evaluation Problems,Selection Criteria,Evaluation Methods,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Regression (Statistics),Predictor Variables,Comparative Analysis,Higher Education

Entrepreneurship courses commonly use various kinds of group work, cooperative learning, study circles and study teams. A major challenge of this pedagogy is the unbiased grading of group members based on the accountability of individual performances. This paper provides an approach to using student peer assessment to provide feedback on individual performances within an entrepreneurial team project so that grades may be assigned in an equitable manner within entrepreneurship education.
Exploring the Connections among Number Sense, Mental Computation Performance, and the Written Computation Performance of Elementary Preservice School Teachers
Author: Tsao, Yea-Ling
Date: 2004-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Numeracy,Numbers,Computation,Mathematics Skills,Elementary School Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Regression (Statistics),Cognitive Processes,Written Language,Affective Behavior,Mathematics Instruction,Mathematics Anxiety,Motivation,Tests,Scores,Correlation,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of this study is to a) explore connections among number sense, mental computation performance and the written computation performance of elementary preservice school teachers; and b) explore the correlation among mental computation skills, computation skills, effect issues and number sense. The sample was composed of students in six intact entry-level mathematics sections of a course populated by preservice elementary school teachers. One hundred fifty-five participants from these six classes completed data collection tasks during the Spring 2002 semester for the study. Regression analyses were used to investigate the correlation of written computation skills, mental computation skills, and affective domain with regard to number sense. Three of these subscales of Conference Learning Mathematics, Mathematics Anxiety, Effectance Motivation of Mathematics, Mental Computation Test score, and Written Computation Test score were found to positive significantly correlate with Number Sense Test score success at the a = 0.001 level. Overall, the six independent variables considered in this study accounted for 57.1% of the variation in Number Sense Test score, with Mental Computation Test, and Written Computation Test having the strongest effects.
Accounting Ethics Education: An Interactive Approach
Author: White, Gwendolen B.
Date: 2004-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Accounting,Ethics,Audience Response Systems,Student Reaction,Student Attitudes,Instructional Films,Critical Viewing,Didacticism,Ethical Instruction,Moral Development,Educational Technology,Professional Development,Seminars,Teaching Methods

An interactive and technological approach was used to discuss ethics with accounting students. Students responded anonymously to ethics questions using wireless transmitters. The students' responses were shown to the group. A customized DVD of movie scenes from &quot;The Producers&quot; and &quot;Wall Street&quot; and a still picture of Enron's Code of Ethics were used to engage students in discussion. The procedures, the technology, and the benefits of the approach are presented.
Why University Teacher Preparation Programs Should Provide a New Set of Personal Constructions of Mathematics through Math Content Courses for Elementary Teachers
Author: Sellers, Patricia A.
Date: 2004-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Education Programs,Mathematics Instruction,Elementary School Teachers,Elementary School Mathematics,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Knowledge Base for Teaching,Teaching Methods,Curriculum Development,Teacher Competencies,Teacher Role,Student Role,Problem Solving,Large Group Instruction,Group Discussion,Logical Thinking,Teamwork,Educational Games,Preservice Teacher Education

Teacher preparation programs are in danger of seriously under-preparing elementary teachers to teach mathematics for understanding if they wait to provide students with evidence of effective mathematics teaching methods in the mathematics methods courses. With strong traditional beliefs about how mathematics ought to be taught and their determination to be able to explain mathematics to elementary children, the methods course is much too late to change preservice teachers' perceptions of mathematics or how to teach it. If we want to change the way they teach mathematics, we must do it in their mathematics content courses. In the content courses, we have a chance to provide them with positive and successful personal mathematics constructions. Only when they learn to become active problem-solvers, can they teach others the importance of interactive problem solving as a means of truly understanding mathematics. It is only through their own experience with mathematics that they can come to appreciate the value of a student-centered environment for learning and to appreciate how a teacher's desire for control can stifle true learning.