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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Effectiveness of PowerPoint-Based Lectures across Different Business Disciplines: An Investigation and Implications
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Burke, Lisa A.; James, Karen; Ahmadi, Mohammad – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
The authors investigated business faculty members' degree of Power-Point (PPT) use across different functional areas in a business program and their use of specific PPT features. The authors also examined students' perceptions of PPT's effectiveness across different business courses (e.g., accounting, economics, management, business law,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Technology Uses in Education, Visual Aids, Role
A Novel Approach to the Analysis of a Teacher-Evaluation System.
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White, Charles S.; Ahmadi, Mohammad – Journal of Education for Business, 1986
Discusses the problem of validity in student evaluations of teacher performance. Reports on a study that found that students and instructors have similar views on the relative importance of certain teacher characteristics and behaviors. Hypothesizes that this is the cause behind the widespread use of instructor evaluations. (CH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Attitudes
Students' Race and Gender in Introductory Business Statistics.
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Raiszadeh, Farhad M. E.; Ahmadi, Mohammad – Journal of Education for Business, 1987
Grade, sex, and race information of 1,391 students registered in Introduction to Business Statistics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were gathered to investigate sex and race differences in achieving quantitative competencies. Results indicated that females scored significantly higher than males, whereas blacks scored significantly…
Descriptors: Business Education, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Anxiety, Minority Groups