Pamela L. Cox

An Expectancy Theory Motivation Approach to Peer Assessment

Group projects are an important component of higher education, and the use of peer assessment of students individual contributions to group projects has increased. The researchers employed an expectancy theory approach and an experimental design in a field setting to investigate conditions that influence students motivation to rate their peers contributions to team projects. Two questionnaires were also developed and tested by the researchers. This research found that rating format and rating frequency significantly interacted to influence student motivation and their perceptions of their team. Research findings reveal peer assessment to be a complex process in need of further study. Two peer assessment instruments and peer assessment training materials are provided along with suggestions for future research.

Gateway to Business: An Innovative Approach to Integrating Writing into the First-Year Business Curriculum.

Assignment Grading Rubric Circle the number for each category that best describes the abstract. Abstract written in student’s own wordswritten in student’s own words Sentences copied Written in student’s from article own words

Teaching First-Year Business Students to Summarize: Abstract Writing Assignment

Writing Assignment

The Meaning of Work: Studs Terkel’s Working as a Teaching Tool

Studs Terkel explores the motivation to work in his classic book Working, compiling more than 100 interviews of workers across America. The author has found Working to be a useful vehicle for exploring organizational issues and for confronting students with the realities of the workplace. Terkel’s interviews are honest, earthy, seasoned with experience, and, oftentimes, brutally frank. The insights captured by Terkel’s interviews possess the ability to captivate students and to attach meaning to management concepts. This article discusses the author’s use of Working as a teaching tool and students’ reactions to the book and corresponding assignments.

The Team Boat Exercise: Enhancing Team Communication Midsemester

In his classic piece “Hello, Bird, I’m Learning Ornithology,” Rotfeld (1998) characterizes the use of classroom teams as follows: In reality, the way most faculty run (group) projects teaches ... the ability to work in groups the way talking with an exotic bird teaches ornithology. ... Group projects are many but few faculty assigning them give attention to improving student speaking, writing, or group interactions. The classes do not teach these things except by contagion and therein lies the real problem.