The study addressed the question, "Did students within some areas of concentration in business outperform students in other areas of concentration in lower-division economics courses?" Results indicate the answer is "yes" and that the best performance comes from students in (1) accounting, (2) finance, and (3) management information systems. (CH)

Relates the use of study guides and academic achievement. (JS)

Findings confirm the assertion that there is a significant difference between the achievement in college elementary accounting of students who have studied high school bookkeeping and Those who have not. (JS)

What do college instructors feel are the strengths and weaknesses of high school bookkeeping programs of study? (Author)

A study of individual and group achievement of 362 London Business School students found the strongest predictors of individual performance were English proficiency and Graduate Management Admission Test scores. Younger students and married students performed better. No predictors of group performance were found. (SK)

A study of 238 high school business students found that they were oriented toward self-efficacy and motivated by extrinsic rewards such as grades. Although they rated critical thinking highest as a cognitive strategy, it was not widely used. Most preferred using computer technology and had access to computers. (Contains 17 references.) (JOW)

Approximately 40% of college students are visual learners, preferring to be taught through pictures, diagrams, flow charts, timelines, films, and demonstrations. Yet marketing instruction remains heavily reliant on presenting content primarily through verbal cues such as written or spoken words. Without visual instruction, some students may be…

Given the expected rise in the number of online business degrees, issues regarding quality and assessment in online courses will become increasingly important. The authors focus on the suitability of online delivery for quantitative business courses, specifically business statistics and management science. They use multiple approaches to assess…

Cognitive psychology research, as well as educational psychology research, suggests that learning is enhanced when new subjects are presented in spaced-out sessions rather than compressed into fewer, longer sessions (the "spacing effect"). This would suggest that students should learn better when taking courses that are scheduled over…

There is much discussion about whether online instruction is as effective as face-to-face instruction. To address this question, a comparative study was made of two sections of an MBA organizational theory course, one taught online and the other face-to-face. The content covered by both sections was the same with similar assignments and a common…

In this paper the relationship between academic load (the number of modules attempted) and academic performance is investigated in a Scottish and an Australian university. An engagement approach to academic integration is employed, in which there is feedback between load and performance, and in which there is scope for diminishing returns to the…

Previous studies on business simulation games (BSGs) have concluded that improved performance may not be the primary benefit of using BSGs, due to mixed results between student performance and perceptions. Two relevant and insightful issues attract our attention, namely, the impacts of the heterogeneous student population and the different…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of a number of factors such as high school major, high school score, gender, Stat105, Maths I, Maths II grades, and grade point average (GPA) on students' academic performance in an introductory operations research (OR) course at the department of Business Administration--College of…

This study sought to devise a parsimonious instrument for evaluating academic self-concept (ASC) among British-born students entering "mass-market" (post-1992) universities that cater for diverse and "non-traditional" intakes. Three major facets of ASC were found to be particularly relevant to these students:…

A study investigated the relationship of students' cognitive level of development and teaching methodology with student achievement. The sample was composed of 79 students in two sections of the introductory marketing course at the University of Northern Colorado. The control group was taught by a lecture strategy, and the experimental group by a…