Combining Livetext With A Mastery Approach To Meet AACSB Assessment Requirements

Program assessment is an active component of AACSB standards that involves the systematic gathering, analyzing and interpreting of data on degree program effectiveness. The standard ensures that business schools assess degree programs, recommend needed improvements, and implement changes ‘that represent contemporary theory and practice.’ Livetext is an online suite of tools that permit instructors to actively track and monitor student progress while capturing needed assessment data. In this study we examine the experience at a Midwestern university in implementing Livetext and a ‘mastery approach’ as vehicles to facilitate course level as well as program and university level assessment. The paper concludes with lessons garnered from the experience

A Course Planning Method to Incorporate Collaborative Learning in Information Systems Courses

Numerous researchers have investigated the relative merits of passive versus active learning. The research methodology, situation and approaches have varied. But the general consensus is that students comprehend and retain more material when actively involved in learning. The lecture process unfortunately places the students in a passive role and may limit their intellectual growth. Collaborative learning concepts provide a powerful strategy for enhancing MIS instruction by making learning active. The small group is a versatile organization that can be used to assist the student grasp material and then transform it into experience. This paper presents a planning process to enable MIS faculty to incorporate collaborative learning activities in their courses. A limited portfolio of collaborative learning activities are described along with possible evaluation techniques

An Exploratory Analysis Of Issus In System & Acceptance Testing

This paper uses findings from a qualitative study to explore the issues identified by programmers and the end user community in conducting software testing. Narratives were collected from 103 software testers and project managers selected from 10 different organizations in the Kansas City/Jefferson City area. Semi-structured interviews were used to illuminate the background to, and ways in which people conceptualize and respond to testing issues in their specific organizational setting. The study findings suggest a number of managerial strategies to ensure a more efficient testing process

Modular Synthesis and Dynamics of a Variety of Donor–Acceptor Interlocked Compounds Prepared by Click Chemistry

A series of donor–acceptor [2]‐, [3]‐, and [4]rotaxanes and self‐complexes ([1]rotaxanes) have been synthesized by a threading‐followed‐by‐stoppering approach, in which the precursor pseudorotaxanes are fixed by using CuI‐catalyzed Huisgen 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition to attach the required stoppers. This alternative approach to forming rotaxanes of the donor–acceptor type, in which the donor is a 1,5‐dioxynaphthalene unit and the acceptor is the tetracationic cyclophane cyclobis(paraquat‐p‐phenylene), proceeds with enhanced yields relative to the tried and tested synthetic strategies, which involve the clipping of the cyclophane around a preformed dumbbell containing π‐electron‐donating recognition sites. The new synthetic approach is amenable to application to highly convergent sequences. To extend the scope of this reaction, we constructed [2]rotaxanes in which one of the phenylene rings of the tetracationic cyclophane is perfluorinated, a feature which significantly weakens its association with π‐electron‐rich guests. The activation barrier for the shuttling of the cyclophane over a spacer containing two triazole rings was determined to be (15.5±0.1) kcal mol−1 for a degenerate two‐station [2]rotaxane, a value similar to that previously measured for analogous degenerate compounds containing aromatic or ethylene glycol spacers. The triazole rings do not seem to perturb the shuttling process significantly; this property bodes well for their future incorporation into bistable molecular switches. Clicking into position: Donor–acceptor rotaxanes can be synthesized by a threading‐followed‐by‐stoppering approach, in which the required stoppers are attached to the precursor pseudorotaxanes by CuI‐catalyzed Huisgen 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition. This approach to rotaxanes with a donor 1,5‐dioxynaphthalene unit and a cyclophane acceptor gives higher yields than conventional strategies