Leading In-Class Discussions

The purpose of this assignment is to allow participants to lead the class discussion on topics of importance in the course.  Skills to be developed are: teaching and facilitating skills, intellective skills, and verbal skills.  One or two participants will be assigned primary responsibility for each reading assignment.  The leader(s) will: (1) prepare and present a 5-10 minute opening analysis of the material, (2) lead the subsequent class discussion, (3) prepare a short (less than 1/3 page single spaced) abstract of the reading, simply copying the abstract when it is provided in the original reading or creating a new one when it is not provided, (4) prepare a short, up to 1 page (single-spaced) critique of the material including, where appropriate, its relation to other relevant readings in the course; and (5) list several key questions you want to have the class discuss.  (Items 3-5 are to be neatly prepared and a copy is to be distributed to each member of the class in e-mailboxes by 9:00 a.m. of class day). 

Participants will also be responsible for choosing and leading the discussion on an experiment in an area of research interest to group members.  Form groups of two or three for this assignment.  Copies of the article need to be made available to each class member.

Deliverables: Abstract and critique of reading; leadership of in-class discussion on topic.  

Schedule of Assignments and Student-Selected Experiments

Group 1: Rahul Basole, Carrie Crystal,  Brian Murtha

Group 2: Xinlin Tang, Mark Lewis

Group 3: Xinlin Tang, Mark Lewis, Vijay Kasi, Sunyoung Cho, Ping Ping

Group 4: Jack Wei (new experiment)

Group 5: Rahul Basole, Carrie Crystal,  Brian Murtha

Group 6:  Stacie Petter, Adriane Davis

Group 7: Lei Li, Jijie Wang, Chongwoo Park, Guangzhi Zheng, and Punit Ahluwalia

Group 8: Paula Yates, Nanette Napier

Group 9: Nannette Napier, Robert Jones, Paula Yates, Julie Petherbridge

Group 10: Robert Jones, Julie Petherbridge

Group 11: Jack Zheng, ChongWoo Park

Group 12: Masaki Mori, Steve Du, Dong-Gook Kim, Yide Shen, Jiafeng Liu

Group 13: Masaki Mori, Pingping Song, Jiafeng Liu

Group 14: Stacie Petter, Tony (Anthony) Robinson, Julie Dejong, Adriane Davis

Group 15: Sunyoung Cho and Vijay Kasai

Group 16: Jijie Wang and Lei Li

Group 17: Steve Du, Derrick Kim, Yide Shen

Citation Information for Student-Selected Articles

DSC 8820 Class of 2003

Groups 1 & 3 Replication; Group 2 article: Sulin Ba and Paul Pavlou. EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECT OF TRUST BUILDING TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRONIC MARKETS: PRICE PREMIUMS AND BUYER BEHAVIOR. MIS Quarterly, Sep2002, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p243.

Group 4 Article: "The Reciprocal Effects of Brand Equity and Trivial Attributes. By: Broniarczyk, Susan M.; Gershoff, Andrew D.. Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), May2003, Vol. 40 Issue 2.

Group 6 Article: "The Use of Explanations in Knowledge-Based Systems: Cognitive Perspective and a Process-Tracing Analysis" by J-I Mao and I. Benbasat. Journal of Management Information Systems. Fall 2000. Vol. 17, Iss. 2; pp. 153-179.

Group 7 Replication: Gefen, David, Detmar Straub, The Relative Importance of Perceived Ease of Use in IS Adoption: A Study of E-Commerce Adoption, JAIS, Volume 1, Paper 8 November 2000

Group 8 Article: Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K.,Sengupta, Kishore,Swett, Clint,"The Impact of Goals on Software Project Management" MIS Quarterly, v23, no 4, Dec 1999, pp 531-555.

Group 9 Replication: Lipe, Marlys, and Steven Salterio. "The Balanced Scorecard: Judgmental Effects of Common and Unique Performance Measures." The Accounting Review (July) 2000: 283-298.

Group 10 Article: Fisher, Joseph, James Frederickson, and Sean Peffer.  "Budgeting:  An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Negotiation."  The Accounting Review  (January) 2000:  93-114.

Group 11 Article: Assessment of learner satisfaction with asynchronous electronic learning systems. By: Wang, Yi-Shun. Information & Management, Oct2003, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p75, 12p.

Group 12 Replication: "What if your dentist looked like Tom Cruise? Applying the match-up hypothesis to a service encounter" Stephen K. Koernig & Albert L. Page (2002), Psychology & Marketing, Vol.19(1) pp.91-110.

Group 13 Article: "Valuation Bias in Commercial Appraisal: A Transaction Price Feedback Experiment" J. Andrew Hansz & Julian Diaz III (2001), Real Estate Economics, Vol29(4) pp.553ff.

Group 14 Replication: "Keeping mum as the project goes under: Toward an explanatory model" by H Jeff Smith, Mark Keil, Gordon Depledge. Journal of Management Information Systems. Armonk: Fall 2001. Vol. 18, Iss. 2; p. 189 (39 pages)

Group 15 Article: Gefen, D., and Straub, D. (2000), "The Relative Importance of Perceived Ease of Use in IS Adoption: A Study of E-Commerce Adoption," Journal of the Association of Information Systems, 1, 8, October, 1-29.

Group 16 Article: "Comprehending Object and Process Models: An Empirical Study, Ritu Agarwal, Prabuddha De, and Atish P. Sinha,IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, VOL. 25, NO. 4, JULY/AUGUST 1999

Group 17 Article: "Effects of user participation in systems development: A longitudinal field experiment, Hunton, James E., Beeler, Jesse D. MIS Quarterly, Dec97, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p359, 30p