Academy of Educational Leadership Journal

Trends in Students' Perceptions of the Ethicality of Selected Computer Activities

To determine students' perceptions of the ethicality of selected computer activities, a survey instrument, originally developed and administered in 1994, was administered to 480 business students at a Mid-South university in 2004. Students were provided seven practices related to computer use and were asked to indicate the extent of their ethicality. To determine changes in students' perceptions a decade later, results of the 2004 survey were compared to results of the 1994 study of 450 busin...

An Examination of Professor Expectations Based On the Kano Model of Customer Satisfaction

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) project indicates disappointing results in the frequency of student-faculty interaction and the amount of time that students prepare for class. Both of these discomforting facts illustrate the need for educators to do a better job of communicating expectations. This study uses a paradigm of the "professor as the customer" and the Kano Model of customer satisfaction to clarify and quantify professor expectations. Professor expectations are exami...

Letter From the Editors

From Group Assignment to Class E-Business Project: A 'Medical Rotation' Approach

Most group project assignments in MIS or E-commerce courses develop students' intra-group team building skills, but fail to address larger inter-group or cross-functional integration skills. A class e-business project based on a "medical rotation " model was designed to emulate cross-functional integration demands found in a business environment, while simultaneously exposing students to each of the major functional areas involved in managing technology companies. The medical rotation approac...

B-School Deans' Perceptions of E-Journals

Electronic journals are clearly now part of the landscape of intellectual, peer-reviewed journals. Given that published intellectual contributions affect faculty pay, promotion, merit and tenure, this survey of business school deans reveals that not all deans regard e-journals as meritorious as their hard copy brethren. A 25.5% response rate from the 419 deans of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business member institutions suggests that interest in the subject was strong. An over...

Using the Business Fraud Triangle to Predict Academic Dishonesty Among Business Students

Crib notes, paper mills, cell phones, copying and pasting from the Internet, hand signals during exams, copying homework-the ways in which students engage in academically dishonest behaviors are numerous, and research suggests that most students cheat at some point in their college careers. In addition, some studies indicate that business students are more likely to cheat than students in other disciplines. Much research has been conducted to determine the prevalence of academic dishonesty an...

The Effect of Monetary Incentives On Accounting Student Motivation

We investigate the effects of monetary incentives on accounting student motivation. Using a within-persons decision modeling approach and Russian accounting student participants to investigate potential motivators, we find students with monetary incentives p laced significantly less emphasis on their overall grade-point average and significantly more emphasis on esteem in the eyes of classmates. Our results suggest monetary incentives do not undermine personal satisfaction, an intrinsic motiv...

Quality, Technology, Experience and the Use of Media Resources in Distance Learning Programs by Two-Year Community Colleges

In spite of the increase in the number of Distance Learning Programs (DLP) offered by higher education institutions, not all programs have been successful. Successful programs use different types of media resources for instructional delivery. An understanding of the factors affecting decisions related to the type and number of teaching media resources used in successful DLP could provide valuable information not only to those two-year colleges currently offering DLP but also to those planning...

Factors Affecting Student Achievement in Cost Accounting

In the last 15 years, there has been little published research on student success in management accounting course work. To our knowledge, there have been no published empirical papers focusing on factors affecting success in upper level management accounting course work in an American classroom setting. In our research, we control for different grading schemes across instructors, and we find that student grade point average, performance in managerial accounting principles and performance in t...

Gender Differences in Students' Perceptions of Group Learning Experiences

This paper examines the effects of gender on students' perceptions of and experiences with group assignments. The motivation for the paper was based on the premise that group learning is an important component of under graduate business education and that there is a difference between males and females in the way these group assignments are perceived. Even though ample literature exists related to gender differences, no studies could be found that examined the effects of gender on students' p...

Effectively Designing and Implementing the Successful Business Freshmen Experience Course

This paper describes a systems approach for designing and implementing the business student's Freshman Experience course. The approach is useful in providing a methodology for effectively selecting and implementing core components and assisting professionals in improving the quality of education. This paper describes the necessary inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback mechanisms. Moreover, examples of operationalized objectives are presented. A detailed description of how the model was uti...