This paper uses two large databases to determine if students of a given gender learn more from instructors of the same gender and if instructors of a given gender receive higher ratings from students of the same gender compared to students of the opposite gender. The Indiana University (IU) data...

The Interment provides an unlimited resource for students in an investments course. Actual investing is increasingly done on-line. It is essential that students in investment courses be exposed to this technology to function as consumers of investment products, employees of an investment...

The percentage of doctorates in economics awarded in the United States to US citizens has declined from 67.3 percent in 1977 to 55.7 percent in 1986 to 42.9 percent in 1996 [Siegfried and Stock, 1999]. This clearly implies that the number of economics instructors whose native language is not...

The Christian Business Faculty Association currently publishes two journals. The Journal of Biblical Integration in Business was created in 1995 and will publish its 24th issue in 2016. The Christian Business Academy Review was created in 2006 and will publish its 11th issue in 2016. The purpose...

This paper update the results of a 2001 national survey of corporate finance faculty teaching methods and assessment techniques. In addition to looking at the undergraduate course in financial management, this study investigates the teaching methods and assessment techniques for the core MBA...

This study compares the attitudes and learning outcomes of students in sections of introductory corporate finance courses. The study was conducted at two different universities. Three sections of the course were taught using the lecture method supplemented with a student-led out-of-class case...

The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a bias in the scoring of students own group work relative to the scoring assessed by other students and their instructor of the same group work. One hundred seventy-five students in six classes over two semesters rated their own group and...

This paper examines faculty use of computers, group work, writing assignments and presentations in the undergraduate introductory finance course. The data was collected from a national survey sent out in the spring of 2000 and is an extension of the findings reported in Saunders [2001]. Most...

This article describes the use of top ten lists as a way to break the ice with students and begin a discussion about integrating one's faith into the subject matter of a course. The literature has shown that the use of top ten lists has proven to be an attention-grabbing way of introducing a...