ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of arti... more ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of articles a journal publishes on business and management education (BME) research and the relative scholarly impact an article is likely to have after being published in that journal. They envision that the dissemination of these indices will be helpful for scholars considering work in BME research because the indices save prospective scholars considerable time in determining the range and desirability of outlets in which their work might be published.
Journal of public finance and public choice, Apr 1, 2009
We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a ... more We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a panel data set from US 48 contiguous states from 1982 to 2003. State excise tax rates currently vary a great deal and we assess empirically economic and political factors that affect the level of these tax rates. We incorporate both horizontal competition and vertical competition. Our results show that the most important factor determining the level of cigarette and gasoline tax rates is the horizontal competition between neighboring states and that vertical competition exists in case of beer and cigarette taxation.
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. The Educational Testing Service, publisher of the assessment, provides data that allow institutions to compare their own MFT-B performance to national norms, but that procedure fails to take the characteristics of institutional student cohorts into
This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determin... more This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determinates among undergraduate business students by intellectual variance on business education estimate whether the returns on certain student characteristics, most notably the variance in intellectual ability as signaled by ACT score distribution business programs, differ along the conditional distribution of their Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B) test scores. A systematic examination of the relationship between academic ability (using the ACT as a proxy) and academic achievement (measured by the MFT significant effects of either hetero achievement for high ability students. students might be disadvantaged by the presence of lo positive and significant effect was f of the MFT-B distribution. While intellectual or academic ability, as signaled by the ACT, certainly appears relevant in terms of individual achievement, there is no indication that an admissions policy which creates cohorts w...
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools ’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students ’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20 % of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23 % lower on the MFT than comparable students.
If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In ... more If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In fact, the opposite implication (sufficiency) is also true, and this characterization is the celebrated Blackwell's theorem. We present here a short proof of sufficiency. Actually, we show a stronger result: it is enough to check whether the value of the service is greater than the value of the other for any fixed positive a priori probabilities and a set of terminal actions that has only two elements.
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effective... more Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effectiveness of writing centers at universities, the purpose of this paper is to show the impact of university writing centers on first-year business seminar student writing. Design/methodology/approach – This quantitative study involved 315 first-year undergraduate business students. Logistic and quantile regression analysis was used to test two hypotheses. Findings – Results indicate that student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors positively influenced the likelihood that a student visits the center. Student grades on writing assignments were significantly higher for students who visited the writing center but only for students who scored in the top 40th percentile of the grade distribution. Practical implications – Writing centers should try to reach all students not only those who are naturally motivated. Most importantly, centers should find ways to help students in the lower port...
ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of arti... more ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of articles a journal publishes on business and management education (BME) research and the relative scholarly impact an article is likely to have after being published in that journal. They envision that the dissemination of these indices will be helpful for scholars considering work in BME research because the indices save prospective scholars considerable time in determining the range and desirability of outlets in which their work might be published.
Journal of public finance and public choice, Apr 1, 2009
We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a ... more We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a panel data set from US 48 contiguous states from 1982 to 2003. State excise tax rates currently vary a great deal and we assess empirically economic and political factors that affect the level of these tax rates. We incorporate both horizontal competition and vertical competition. Our results show that the most important factor determining the level of cigarette and gasoline tax rates is the horizontal competition between neighboring states and that vertical competition exists in case of beer and cigarette taxation.
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. The Educational Testing Service, publisher of the assessment, provides data that allow institutions to compare their own MFT-B performance to national norms, but that procedure fails to take the characteristics of institutional student cohorts into
This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determin... more This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determinates among undergraduate business students by intellectual variance on business education estimate whether the returns on certain student characteristics, most notably the variance in intellectual ability as signaled by ACT score distribution business programs, differ along the conditional distribution of their Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B) test scores. A systematic examination of the relationship between academic ability (using the ACT as a proxy) and academic achievement (measured by the MFT significant effects of either hetero achievement for high ability students. students might be disadvantaged by the presence of lo positive and significant effect was f of the MFT-B distribution. While intellectual or academic ability, as signaled by the ACT, certainly appears relevant in terms of individual achievement, there is no indication that an admissions policy which creates cohorts w...
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools ’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students ’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20 % of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23 % lower on the MFT than comparable students.
If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In ... more If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In fact, the opposite implication (sufficiency) is also true, and this characterization is the celebrated Blackwell's theorem. We present here a short proof of sufficiency. Actually, we show a stronger result: it is enough to check whether the value of the service is greater than the value of the other for any fixed positive a priori probabilities and a set of terminal actions that has only two elements.
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effective... more Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effectiveness of writing centers at universities, the purpose of this paper is to show the impact of university writing centers on first-year business seminar student writing. Design/methodology/approach – This quantitative study involved 315 first-year undergraduate business students. Logistic and quantile regression analysis was used to test two hypotheses. Findings – Results indicate that student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors positively influenced the likelihood that a student visits the center. Student grades on writing assignments were significantly higher for students who visited the writing center but only for students who scored in the top 40th percentile of the grade distribution. Practical implications – Writing centers should try to reach all students not only those who are naturally motivated. Most importantly, centers should find ways to help students in the lower port...
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