Academy of Educational Leadership Journal

Letter From the Editors

Editor

The Use of Scoring Rubics in Management Accounting

The first two courses in accounting, principles I and II elicit fear and misunderstanding from most business students. Reinforcing the importance of accounting as a foundational building block in business education is critical to the students' success in later business courses. Yet, a large number of students who exit the accounting principles courses are not trained in using accounting for business decisions. In this study the treatment was a rubric assignment in one section of an accounting...

Ethics and Music: A Comparison of Students at Predominantly White and Black Colleges, and Their Attitudes Toward File Sharing

The relationship between race and ethics has been explored in recent years, but to date only limited mixed empirical results have been recorded. Still, the notion of examining a race/ethics relationship has relevance because of the variance in culture by race. In the last few years, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has launched thousands of lawsuits aimed at students in the university community. These lawsuits are aimed at people engaged in allegedly illegal music file sha...

Student Perceptions and Opinions Toward E-Learning in the College Environment

Distance or electronic learning (E-learning) has become very popular on university and other academic campuses. Various distance learning technologies are being utilized for the delivery of courses and entire degree programs. With the advancement of instructional technology in education, both the courses and the duties of instructors are changing. Researchers have called for more attention to end-users' perceptions and satisfaction with online courses and the effectiveness of such offerings. ...

Integrating Ict Into Higher Education: A Study of Onsite Vs Online Students' Perceptions

For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of onsite students (hybrid or blended mode) and of those taking the same courses on the Internet (online mode). To guide the study, a moderator-type theoretical research model was developed, out of which nine hypotheses were formulated. The model was tested in a field experiment. To collect data, w...

Service Executives On Preparing Undergraduates for Sales Positions

Business schools are increasingly under scrutiny to make certain that the knowledge and skills they impart to students are consistent with the needs of a rapidly changing competitive environment and the organizations that hire college graduates. The current research surveyed senior-level sales executives at 400 U.S.-based service firms on the importance of topics typically included in the undergraduate Professional Sales course. Forth percent of the executives participated. The executives ' a...

Collegiate Adventure Program: Creating a Business Personality

More than ever, today's new hires are expected to hit the ground running. As such, there has been a resurgence of selection research over the last several years. In general, the findings of this research indicate that an occupationally-relevant personality has the greatest predictive validity (Taylor, et al., 2002). It is higher education's duty to provide the experience necessary to create successful business personalities. Further, successful business personalities cannot be created through...

The Future of Academic Honesty

Cheating has permeated many facets of American life. Reports on cheating are found in business, the media and on college campuses. Perhaps one of the more disturbing trends is reports on increasing cheating among grade and high school teachers and administrators. This makes the behavior, motivation and training of education students relevant for scrutiny. The paper examines academic dishonesty among college students training to be teachers. The study uncovers through factor analysis four sali...

Self-Selection Into Degree Programs: Differences in Preferred Learning Styles Between Online Students and Traditional Students

This study is an exploratory investigation of students' propensity to self-select into web-based degree programs based on their preferred styles of learning. The learning styles of students enrolled in several cohorts of an accredited, web-based MBA program were compared with students in an equivalent traditional MBA program to determine if there were any differences in learning styles between the two groups, which might indicate that students with particular learning styles self-select into ...

What Is the Most Effective Way to Keep Teachers?

The analysis of the Teacher Follow-up Survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics reveals the three most effective steps that former teachers think schools should take to encourage teachers to remain in teaching. Providing higher salaries tops the three most effective steps, followed by dealing effectively with student discipline and giving teachers more authority in school. The results provide significant implications for policy interventions aimed at retaining teachers.

An Analysis of the Current Status of Student Debt: Implications for Helping Vulnerable Students Manage Debt

Too many students are having serious problems with credit card debt. This debt can lead to the student's dropping out of school in the worst case; however, even when the students stay in school, they begin their careers saddled with excessive debt. Over half of today's college students own one or more credit cards, and the more credit cards students own, the greater the likelihood that they will have serious debt problems. Our survey of over 4,000 students indicated that as students progress ...