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International Journal for Business Education

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Management Strategies For Active Learning In Aacsb Accredited Stem Discipline Of Cis: Evidence From Traditional And Novel Didactic Methods In Higher Education, Panagiotis Petratos, Evangeliz Damaskou Apr 2018

Management Strategies For Active Learning In Aacsb Accredited Stem Discipline Of Cis: Evidence From Traditional And Novel Didactic Methods In Higher Education, Panagiotis Petratos, Evangeliz Damaskou

International Journal for Business Education

The positive influence of active learning methods for Higher Education is widely studied and is well documented in the research literature. However, there is very little research on active learning impact on Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited business programs which include a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) discipline such as Computer Information Systems (CIS) with very diverse student population demographics. For this study, the researchers focus on campus-level data particularly how active learning influences student learning in introductory College of Business computer information systems courses focused on information technology for management. In this study, the researchers …


The Relationship Between Classified Difficulty And Implausible Distractors In Multiple-Choice Questions, J Alexander Smith, John R. Dickinson Apr 2017

The Relationship Between Classified Difficulty And Implausible Distractors In Multiple-Choice Questions, J Alexander Smith, John R. Dickinson

International Journal for Business Education

Published banks of multiple-choice questions are ubiquitous, the questions in those banks often being classified into levels of difficulty. The specific level of difficulty into which a question is classified might or should be a function of the question’s substance. Possibly, though, insubstantive aspects of the question, such as the incidence of incorrect answers that are readily dismissed, also affect the difficulty level into which a question is classified. The present research investigates the relationship between classified question difficulty and the incidence of implausible incorrect answer options.