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Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board Jan 2005

Cover, Front Matter & Editorial Board

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

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Using Outdoor Experiential Training To Stimulate Emotional Intelligence Competencies And Group Leadership Skills Among Undergraduate Students, David Noer, Rex Waters Jan 2005

Using Outdoor Experiential Training To Stimulate Emotional Intelligence Competencies And Group Leadership Skills Among Undergraduate Students, David Noer, Rex Waters

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study reports on the use of outdoor experiential training as a methodology for accelerating the group citizenship and leadership behaviors of undergraduate students. Using the emotional intelligence foundational skills of interpersonal competence and intrapersonal insight as a frame of reference for skill acquisition and measurement, it outlines the results of a self-assessment instrument and a small group problem solving exercise. Students reported a significant increase in group citizenship skills and the problem solving exercise indicated behavioral manifestations of these skills. The importance of incorporating the lessons of outdoor experiential training into an engaged classroom environment, mythological limitations, and opportunities …

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An Examination Of Successful Leadership Power Base Perceptions, Tom Tworoger, Robert Preziosi Jan 2005

An Examination Of Successful Leadership Power Base Perceptions, Tom Tworoger, Robert Preziosi

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This research investigated the relationship between the leader's perception of their power base and the follower's perception of the leader's power base. Two research questions focused the research. Leaders attempt to influence follower behavior (Weber, 1947; Lewin, 1951; Dahl, 1957). Hersey (1969) suggests that leadership equals influence. Furthermore, leadership is closely related to the concept of power (Stodgill, 19 74). Yukl (1989) concluded that French and Raven's work (1959) enjoyed wide acceptance in trying to define the type of leadership. The Power Perception Profile developed by Hersey and Natemeyer (1979) includes French and Raven's (1959) five power bases, French and …

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Independent Auditor's Opinions Of Substantial Doubt: A Sox-2002 Markets Efficiency Evaluation, Jeff Grover Jan 2005

Independent Auditor's Opinions Of Substantial Doubt: A Sox-2002 Markets Efficiency Evaluation, Jeff Grover

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study determined that cumulative abnormal stock returns of an auditor portfolio of firms with substantial doubt were positive but non-significant for a 23-event week period following the release of independent auditor opinions but transitioned to positive and significant for the remainder of the 35-event week window. The non-significant period supports the semi-strong form of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which suggests that these opinions were quickly and efficiently absorbed by the firms' market value. The significant period anomaly violates the EMH and may suggest a lagged market response to an optimistic outlook of the market value of the auditor …

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Presence Of Informed Trading In Options Markets: An Experiment Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Rafiqul Bhuyan, Mohammad Robbani, Yuxing Van Jan 2005

Presence Of Informed Trading In Options Markets: An Experiment Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Rafiqul Bhuyan, Mohammad Robbani, Yuxing Van

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Using Monte Carlo Simulation we show that informed trading take place in the options market. Our results indicate that at-the-money option contracts are less likely to be information based trades. Using Black-Scholes model to evaluate call and put options, we find that with positive and negative information shocks, informed investors are better off trading out-of-the-money and/or in-the-money-options. This is clear evidence that investors with inside or superior information would take advantage of options' leverage effect, Black (1975). Our analysis sheds light on the direction to revisit the models proposed by Easley et al (1998) and Chan et al (2002). We …

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A Leadership Primer: Managerial Leadership Defined And Discussed From The Perspective Of Four Leadership Models, Timothy Heinze Jan 2005

A Leadership Primer: Managerial Leadership Defined And Discussed From The Perspective Of Four Leadership Models, Timothy Heinze

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Managerial leadership is difficult to comprehensively define. A holistic understanding of managerial leadership is best obtained through examining and integrating multiple models. Four leadership models are reviewed from a historical, definitional, and applicatory perspective. The four models include three well-known, heavily researched theories (situational, transformational, and path-goal) and one relative newcomer (grass roots). Each model provides significant insights into the nature of true leadership, and the combination of these four models provides a holistic overview of leadership. After reviewing each model, the paper addresses points of convergence and divergence in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of managerial leadership.

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Distant Reflections On Current Problems: Ethics And Economics In The Business Of Higher Education, David Dilts, Hedayeh Samavati, Mashaalah Rahnama-Moghadam Jan 2005

Distant Reflections On Current Problems: Ethics And Economics In The Business Of Higher Education, David Dilts, Hedayeh Samavati, Mashaalah Rahnama-Moghadam

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations contains many of the basic tenets of capitalism Less well known is Smith's discussion of the state of education in the late eighteenth century in the latter chapters of the Wealth of Nations. Smith offers a detailed examination of professorial and administrative motivations of his day. Smith's analysis has direct application to many of the same problems that educational critics today have identified. This paper presents Smith's observations in the context of the controversies identified in today's educational reform movement.

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Transform Or Transact? Which Leader Gets Better Results? A Meta - Analysis, Jay Mulki, Fernando Jaramillo, William Locander Jan 2005

Transform Or Transact? Which Leader Gets Better Results? A Meta - Analysis, Jay Mulki, Fernando Jaramillo, William Locander

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study used meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between leadership style and job performance in sales settings. Specifically, the research investigates whether transformational or transactional leadership is more appropriate in creating a high performing sales environment. Results indicate that transformational leadership is positively and significantly related to salesperson’s job performance, whereas the relationship between transactional leadership and job performance is mixed. Also, results suggest that the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance is stronger when subjective, rather than objective, measures of job performance are used.

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Firm Performance And Insider Trading: A Comparison Between Voluntary And Involuntary Bankruptcy Filings, Jeffrey Donaldson, Robert Weigand Jan 2005

Firm Performance And Insider Trading: A Comparison Between Voluntary And Involuntary Bankruptcy Filings, Jeffrey Donaldson, Robert Weigand

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

We compare the financial performance and insider trading characteristics of firms finding for voluntary bankruptcy with firms that are petitioned into bankruptcy involuntarily by their creditors. We find that shareholders of firms filing for voluntary bankruptcy experience significantly greater losses around the bankruptcy announcement than shareholders of involuntary filers. We also find that insiders of firms filing voluntarily are net sellers of their firm's shares in the years leading up to bankruptcy, vs. net buying by insiders of involuntary filers. Moreover, firms filing voluntary bankruptcy successfully reorganize less frequently and liquidate more frequently titan firms that file involuntary bankruptcy. These …

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Earnings Whisper Forecasts As Predictors Of Security Returns: Support For The Miller Price Optimism Model, Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington Jan 2005

Earnings Whisper Forecasts As Predictors Of Security Returns: Support For The Miller Price Optimism Model, Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study provides empirical support for the Miller (1977) model which sets forth that security returns reflect the opinions of optimists in markets where more rational and pessimistic trading is excluded by high short-sale costs. Using the differential between earnings whisper forecasts and analysts’ consensus forecasts as a proxy for heterogeneous expectations of earning, this study finds that for stacks with higher differentials, optimistic valuations dominate resulting in significantly lower future security returns than for stocks with lower differentials. Low differentials stacks are shown to resemble value stacks while high differential stocks display the characteristics of glamour stocks.

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Role Of Emotional Intelligence Within Transactional/Transformational Leadership, Natalie Ferres, Tony Travaglione, Grant O'Neill Jan 2005

Role Of Emotional Intelligence Within Transactional/Transformational Leadership, Natalie Ferres, Tony Travaglione, Grant O'Neill

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study explored the role of emotional intelligence (E1) within transactional-transformational Leadership and examined the impact of each leadership style on trust in leaders and trust in the Organization. Results from 448 public-sector employees slowed that leader El was positively correlated with transformational leadership and transactional-contingent-reward ratings. Leader E1 had a significant and positive relationship with total transactional leadership. Transformational leadership and contingent-reward were both found to be significant positive influences on trust in immediate leader and trust in the organization, confirming expectation. In contradiction to the final hypotheses, transactional leadership also played a significant part in trust scores.

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Leader Development And Emotional Competence: Authentic Leadership, Self-Awareness, And Personal Integrity, Nathan Keller, James Quick, Marilyn Macik-Frey, David Gray, David Mack, Cary Cooper Jan 2005

Leader Development And Emotional Competence: Authentic Leadership, Self-Awareness, And Personal Integrity, Nathan Keller, James Quick, Marilyn Macik-Frey, David Gray, David Mack, Cary Cooper

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Can leadership be taught? (Doh, 2003) The dramatic growth of leadership academies, institutes, and programs from political science to business and psychology to reserve officer training corps for U.S. military services makes this a compelling question. We say "yes" and then: How can it be taught? And how are leaders developed? Ours is a developmental theory for teaching leaders and suggests that emotional competence is at the heart of developing authentic leaders with personal integrity.

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Deny The Consent To Be Governed: Risk Leadership Theory, Curtis Brungardt Ph.D., Chris Crawford Jan 2005

Deny The Consent To Be Governed: Risk Leadership Theory, Curtis Brungardt Ph.D., Chris Crawford

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Denying the consent to be governed: Risk leadership theory takes a radical approach to leadership change, and organizational improvement. It departs from the traditional and contemporary views of leadership where the leader/power figures serve as the change agents for their organizations. Instead, most change agents are not the recognized leaders/power figures, but rather are the lower and middle level employees because power structures reassert stability and squash change when risk is felt. Organizational leaders, as well as lower and middle level employees, need to recognize the weaknesses of contemporary change models that are top-down and reinforce status quo quick fix …

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Electronic Performance Monitoring And Motivation: A Behavioral Modification Perspective, G. Stoney Alder Jan 2005

Electronic Performance Monitoring And Motivation: A Behavioral Modification Perspective, G. Stoney Alder

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

The increasing use of electronic monitoring has resulted in considerable debate among the public, labor groups, business groups, and increasingly among academicians. However, electronic monitoring research to date has been lacking and contradictory. This paper applies organizational behavior modification theories to argue that, when properly implemented, electronic monitoring can be an effective motivational tool. Organizational decisions regarding purpose and disclosure of monitoring, feedback source and monitoring related standards are theorized to affect the relationship between monitoring and employee motivation.

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An Econometric Analysis Of Panel Data For Team Performance, Market Characteristics, And Attendance In English Premier League, David Pan, John Baker, Zhen Zhu, Elisa Argent Jan 2005

An Econometric Analysis Of Panel Data For Team Performance, Market Characteristics, And Attendance In English Premier League, David Pan, John Baker, Zhen Zhu, Elisa Argent

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

A panel data analysis was used to assess the effects of selected team and market variables on attendance in the English Premier League (EPL). The results confirmed that (a) winning percentage remained a determinant for increasing attendance: (b) soccer consumers of tile EPL were from middle and lower socio-economic classes: (c) newly built or renovated stadiums were significant in increasing attendance, but this only appeared valid for an initial few years: (d) a competitive attitude among spectators between rival teams promoted loyalty, and team identification, consequently increasing attendance; and (e) a promotional strategy of cross-market territories is advisable for sport …

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The Application Of Analytic Hierarchy Process In Selecting Personnel- A Case Study, Larry Stapleton Jan 2005

The Application Of Analytic Hierarchy Process In Selecting Personnel- A Case Study, Larry Stapleton

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

One of the most important and difficult decisions a manager makes is to select personnel. The criticality of this decision results in most manager struggling to find till appropriate selection approach. The interview approach is the most common method to selecting personnel. Many users seek to quantify this method by arbitrarily assigning weights and ranking scales for candidate answers. This paper seeks to show the use of AHP to provide a structured and multidimensional approach in assigning weights and ranking candidates. A case study is used to demonstrate the development and application of the structured. AHP approach in selecting personnel.

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Intellectual Property Asset Management: A New Dimension For Business Leadership, Francine Segars, Karen Moustafa Jan 2005

Intellectual Property Asset Management: A New Dimension For Business Leadership, Francine Segars, Karen Moustafa

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

As we move rapidly toward a knowledge society, intellectual property (used interchangeably hereinafter with "IP") is becoming the primary differentiating factor between companies (Drucker, 199 2). In the knowledge society, the means for production becomes intellectual property which is held within each individual employee within a company, along with a well thought out strategy for managing a company's IP. Leadership is required to ensure that this IP intellectual property is fully utilized by the company through an effective strategy. Leadership has been defined as the ability of an individual to use influence to produce an outcome (Bennis & Nanus, 1985; …

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Bringing The Real World Into The Entrepreneurial Classroom, Nancy Niles Jan 2005

Bringing The Real World Into The Entrepreneurial Classroom, Nancy Niles

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

From 1997-2003, this author managed a Small Business Development Center, providing free technical assistance to new and existing small businesses. She counseled hundreds of business clients during her tenure regarding successful business management. Based on her experience, she developed a 10-step business start-up program that brings the real world into the entrepreneurial classroom. This teaching concept presents the student with an understanding of the major principles and practices necessary to start a business venture. The instructor will focus on both theoretical and practical concepts. Students will have the opportunity to perform research and analyze data in order to open up …

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Human Resource Management In The Great Plains With A Micropolitan Twist: Ten Research Propositions, David Palmet Jan 2005

Human Resource Management In The Great Plains With A Micropolitan Twist: Ten Research Propositions, David Palmet

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This paper explores the possible uses that the recent creation of Micropolitan Statistical Areas by the US Census Bureau could have for advancing research in the area of Human Management. An example is provided using a sample of five Great Plain states (i.e., North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma). Additionally, ten human resource management research propositions are suggested illustrating possible application of the micropolitan concept.

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Gathering Around The Organization's Communal Fire: How Leaders Use Stories To Maintain And Change Culture, Steven Stovall Jan 2005

Gathering Around The Organization's Communal Fire: How Leaders Use Stories To Maintain And Change Culture, Steven Stovall

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Stories abound in the business world. Specifically, leaders use stories to maintain and even change the culture of their organizations. Whether positive in nature or not, stories are perpetuating avenues for leaders in crafting a new working climate or holding steady an existing one. Beginning with an examination of organizational culture itself and the leader's role, the piece moves on to defining what a story is am/ how the leader is or becomes a storyteller. Finally, the article ties everything together by postulating when stories should be told and how they should be related.

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An Exploratory Investigation Into The Moderating Effect Of Emotional Intelligence On The Emotional Labor And Burnout Relationship, Wesley Scroggins, Suzanne Ray, Elizabeth Rozell Jan 2005

An Exploratory Investigation Into The Moderating Effect Of Emotional Intelligence On The Emotional Labor And Burnout Relationship, Wesley Scroggins, Suzanne Ray, Elizabeth Rozell

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Emotional intelligence has received increased attention in recent years. Much of this attention is due to research that supports a direct relationship between emotional intelligence and positive organizational behaviors. However, little research has investigated the moderating effects of emotional intelligence. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the moderating effect of emotional intelligence tilt the emotional labor and burnout relationship. Results support significant direct relationships of both emotional labor and emotional intelligence on burnout. The self-awareness dimension of emotional intelligence also moderated the emotional labor and burnout relationship. Implications f or research and practice are discussed.

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Exploring Linkages Between Business Strategy And Patent Strategy: A Proposed Typology, Steven Popejoy Jan 2005

Exploring Linkages Between Business Strategy And Patent Strategy: A Proposed Typology, Steven Popejoy

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This paper is an attempt to develop a typology which would theoretically represent the relationship between a patent strategy and a business strategy in a given organization. Such a relationship follows from previous work in related fields which theories a linkage between business strategy and functional strategy that can have a positive impact on organizational performance. An underling assumption is made that intellectual capital represents a functional area for today's high tech firm. In creating the proposed typology, use is made of the Miles and Snow typology of business strategies.

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Measuring Managerial Effectiveness During The Implementation Of Service Strategies, Bryant Mitchell, Lawrence Fredendall, Stephen Cantrell Jan 2005

Measuring Managerial Effectiveness During The Implementation Of Service Strategies, Bryant Mitchell, Lawrence Fredendall, Stephen Cantrell

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

In service firms performance is contingent upon the operations strategy being pursued. However, little research has been reported which empirically examines the implementation of operations strategy in service firms. We argue that implementing fill operation strategy in service is primarily done through the use of human resources. We then test the proposition that in service firms the most effective operations managers are the ones that make the most effective use of their human resources. This paper develop measures of strategic implementation and tests hypotheses about the effect of strategic implementation on firm performance using published data from the National Basketball …

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2006 Symposium Announcement Jan 2005

2006 Symposium Announcement

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

No abstract provided.

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Active Teaching In Business And Accounting: A Survey Of Techniques And An Empirical Test, Konrad Gunderson Jan 2005

Active Teaching In Business And Accounting: A Survey Of Techniques And An Empirical Test, Konrad Gunderson

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study empirically examines the effect of an article teaching approach on student test scores. In a between subjects design, 40 students learned introductory budgeting concepts under all active approach, and 42 were presented the same material via lecture. Test scores reveal that students in the active condition performed better than the lecture group test questions were essays involving synthesis of concepts. When tested for acquisition of factual knowledge using multiple choice questions, the two groups did not differ. The study extends the existing literature in two ways. First, it tests an active teaching approach which is a blend of …

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Evolution Of The Cash Flow Statement Through 2003, Rita Jones, Keith Atkinson Jan 2005

Evolution Of The Cash Flow Statement Through 2003, Rita Jones, Keith Atkinson

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Cash flows of a business are the most fundamental events upon which accounting measurements are based and upon which investors and creditors are assumed to base their decisions. Then why did the FASB wait until November 1987 to issue a standard "requiring" businesses to provide a Statement of Cash Flows, and what subsequent changes have been made to the standard? Possibilities of the delay include: (1) fear of regressing from accrual accounting emphasis to a cash emphasis: (2) the area of cash flows was not perceived to be "urgent " enough to warrant the attention of the standard-setting bodies forced …

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Ad Hoc Teams: Do Students Actually Learn From Them?, Chi Lim, Terry Coalter Jan 2005

Ad Hoc Teams: Do Students Actually Learn From Them?, Chi Lim, Terry Coalter

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Today’s organizations expect new college graduates to be well equipped to excel in team settings. Although instructors have good intentions, more often than not, students are ill-prepared to lean from their team experience. Little attention has been given to the ad hoc method of population team projects in business courses without properly training students to function in teams. The current study utilized team requirements in business classes to understand what students can gain from team projects when they undertake team projects without training.

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A Comparative Study Of Qualitative And Quantitative Courses Across Three Educational Delivery Modalities, Rhonda Polak, Jeanette Francis, Mark Cameron, Johnny Morris Jan 2005

A Comparative Study Of Qualitative And Quantitative Courses Across Three Educational Delivery Modalities, Rhonda Polak, Jeanette Francis, Mark Cameron, Johnny Morris

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study investigated differences in student satisfaction between qualitative and quantitative courses across three modalities: online, on ground and blended. With 21,000 respondents results indicate there are significant differences in student satisfaction between qualitative and quantitative courses. Satisfaction was higher for qualitative courses across all three modalities; it was highest for the online modify for both qualitative and quantitative courses.

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What Constitutes An Effective Human Resources Curriculum?, Michael Sincoff, Crystal Owen Jan 2005

What Constitutes An Effective Human Resources Curriculum?, Michael Sincoff, Crystal Owen

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

What constitutes an effective university curriculum in human resources management? In an effort to answer this question, the authors reviewed the research literature on human resources curricula, comparing, contrasting and synthesizing the recommendations that have been offered in recent studies. Although a number of scholars have addressed this issue from a variety of perspectives and offer many noteworthy points for consideration, the review of the research literature indicates that a definitive answer to the question of curriculum content has not yet been found. The authors summarize the recent research, categorizing studies in terms of type pf research (empirical versus conceptual), …

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The Prospect Of Personalized Education Guided By Student Genetic Information, David Parmenter Jan 2005

The Prospect Of Personalized Education Guided By Student Genetic Information, David Parmenter

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

Genetics-related research is rapidly developing increased understanding of the genes that underlie most human as well as the molecular processes in which these genes take part. It is reasonable for educators to assume that many learning-related traits will he found to have a genetic basis and that genetic testing will someday allow educators to access this learning-related information for each student. Knowledge of learning preferences would enable advisors, instructors and the students themselves to more closely match student needs with the appropriate educational environments and teaching methods. At the extreme, this information could make possible truly personalized education.

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