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Santicola, Craig F. – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Cooperative Learning, Economics Education, Quasiexperimental Design
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DeSimone, Frank; Buzza, John – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
This article deals with a subject that is extremely important to the success of future graduates of any college or University--specifically Critical Thinking and Decision Making. Our article explains the research results and observations of critical thinking research conducted at two different colleges in the fall semester of 2011. The research…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Critical Thinking
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Philbrick, Jane Hass; Leseane, Reginald; Bart, Barbara D.; Dowling, William – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The authors examine the impact of a program designed to encourage students to read popular business magazines. The results suggest that a reading program can improve student knowledge of current events, but that more work is needed to encourage students to attain timely knowledge of the current environment of business.
Descriptors: Periodicals, Journal Articles, Reading Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Fairfield-Sonn, James W.; Kolluri, Bharat; Rogers, Annette; Singamsetti, Rao – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This paper examines several ways in which teaching effectiveness and student learning in an undergraduate Business Statistics course can be enhanced. First, we review some key concepts in Business Statistics that are often challenging to teach and show how using real data sets assist students in developing deeper understanding of the concepts.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Business Administration Education, Curriculum Enrichment
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Levine, Mark; Guy, Paul; Straus, Peter; Levine, H. T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The present study investigates whether pre-business students, after having completed a traditional in class freshmen introduction to global business course, express a difference in preference for such a course to be delivered online versus classroom or no preference at all. The study further explores whether four variables: 1) number of units of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Preferences, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Marsh, Michael T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Regardless of the related discipline, students in statistics courses invariably have difficulty understanding the connection between the numerical values calculated for end-of-the-chapter exercises and their usefulness in decision making. This disconnect is, in part, due to the lack of time and opportunity to actually design the experiments and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Statistical Analysis, Sampling, Teaching Methods