BBA3042 Business Research Project I

1. BBA3042 Business Research Project I Class Session Two

2. Devotions Attitude

3. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Individual Learning Outcomes are post BBA career goal competencies, skills, and abilities.

4. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Competencies: possessing the necessary qualities for a specific profession

5. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Skills: technical expertness; proficiency; aptitude

6. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Abilities: physical, mental, or legal powers to perform; talent for a specific task

7. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes The competencies, abilities, and skills identified by the literature review and expert interviews related to the post BBA career goal will generate the Individual Learning Outcomes.

8. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes The outcomes must be broad enough to be fulfilled by an assignment within the BBA curriculum and yet pertinent to the special requirements of the post BBA career goal.

9. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Management, communication, and analytical competencies are in demand by employers. Focus on these areas when developing Individual Learning Outcomes.

10. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Post BBA career goal: Internet specialist for the banking industry (from sample Post BBA Career Goal Report in Appendix K)

11. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Plan to Achieve Individual Learning Outcomes (listed in Appendix B of the sample Post BBA Career Goal Report)

12. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes List possible ways to achieve each Individual Learning Outcome within the BBA program.

13. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Develop a working knowledge of Internet • Understand current banking regulations (general overview)

14. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Understand re-engineering, strategic planning, and leadership • Develop communication skills, oral and written

15. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Know how to develop and implement training programs

16. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes What purposes do the Individual Learning Outcomes serve?

17. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Clarify the broader purpose of the BBA program • Illustrate connection between BBA program and post BBA career goal

18. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • Break up into pairs • Each person evaluates the other’s HWA 2-3 assignment (DO NOT MARK ON THE COPY TO BE GIVEN TO FACILITATING INSTRUCTOR AT THE END OF THIS CLASS SESSION.)

19. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • Discuss how the proposed expert interviews will be conducted. • Create questions for the expert interviews.

20. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • How will the results of the literature review and proposed expert interviews be incorporated into Individual Learning Outcomes? • Share examples of Individual Learning Outcomes that might be developed. • Suggest how the Individual Learning Outcomes might be fulfilled within the BBA program.

21. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:HWA 3-1: Plan for Post BBA Career Goal Review next week’s assignment.

22. Scientific Inquiry ? Selltiz, C., Wrightsman, L. S., & Cook, S. W. (1972). Research methods in social relations (3rd ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

23. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Definition of Common Sense: The unreflective opinions of ordinary men Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. (1971). Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Company.

24. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense What are some examples of common sense?

25. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Why did people 500 plus years ago think that the world was flat (or least hump-backed)?

26. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Scientific Inquiry and Common Sense are both Perception-Screening Devices

27. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Scientific Inquiry utilizes a: • systematic • well planned • logical approach to explain observations

28. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Common sense limits you to the familiar.

29. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense This may be an interesting discussion for the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, etc.) -- BUT what does it have to do with my world?

30. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Decisions made by using generally accepted common sense can be wrong.

31. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense It is not practical to throw away common sense and subject every work-related decision to a scientific inquiry process.

32. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense However, understanding and incorporating the discipline of the scientific inquiry process can ENHANCE your decision-making skills for solving work-related problems.

33. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC Freshman Seminar course has been promoted at MVNC to improve GPAs and Retention Rates. Bolender, R. K. (1997). The evaluation of institutional goals for Freshman Seminar at Mount Vernon Nazarene College. Resources in Education Journal, The George Washington University. (ERIC: ED 406 912)

34. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC The value of Freshman Seminar is generally accepted.

35. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC An informal evaluation was conducted by comparing the average first semester GPAs of the group that completed Freshman Seminar versus the group that did not.

36. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC The informal evaluation supported the generally accepted belief that Freshman Seminar helps improve students’ GPAs. The GPAs were slightly higher.

37. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC This also supported the generally accepted assumption that students who have better GPAs, return for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters.

38. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC What are some possible problems with an informal (common sense) evaluation?

39. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC Bolender (1997) supported the Freshman Seminar course and wanted to prove that it accomplished the GPA and retention goals.

40. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC The purpose of the formal evaluation was to prove that Freshman Seminar should be required for all freshmen.

41. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC The study, using inferential statistics, did not prove the assumptions that the Freshman Seminar course had a positive impact on GPAs or retention rates.

42. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC Any GPA improvement made by students completing the Freshman Seminar course was not any better than pure chance.

43. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense: Freshman Seminar at MVNC In fact, the formal study could not even replicate the informal average findings. More care was taken in handling the data in the formal study.

44. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense How does this example compare with any work related problems you face?

45. Scientific Inquiry Versus Common Sense Scientific Inquiry is: • Deliberate • Focused • Systematic • Logical

46. Scientific Inquiry: Business Research Project I, II, and III How is the scientific inquiry process used within Business Research Project I, II, and III?

47. Scientific Inquiry: Business Research Project I, II, and III Business Research Project Sequence • Track One:Post BBA Career Goal • The post BBA career goal will be studied and developed using the development methodology format. • The scientific inquiry process will be more deliberate, systematic, focused, and logical toward connecting the post BBA career goal with the BBA program than using a non-scientific inquiry approach (for example--common sense).

48. Scientific Inquiry: Business Research Project I, II, and III • Track Two:Work Related Problem • The work related problem will be solved by studying the problem with one of three possible methodologies (development, evaluation, or research/quasi-experimental). • The scientific inquiry process will be more deliberate, systematic, focused, and logical toward solving the work related problem (a real world application) than using a non-scientific inquiry approach (for example--common sense).

49. Scientific Inquiry: Development Methodology • The post BBA career goal report (see Appendix K in the Student Study Guide) utilizes an abbreviated form of the development methodology. • There is an example of a work related problem report utilizing the development methodology at www.bolender.com.

50. Scientific Inquiry: Development Methodology The development methodology is preferred for solving a work related problem due to its application-oriented nature.