Guidelines for Discussion Leadership



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.  A participant will be assigned primary responsibility for each reading assignment.  The leader 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). 

Your job is to inspire your class members and get them involved in the dialogue. The intention is not for you to talk for a half hour or so. You may "cold call" your class members to get them engaged. Or you can warn them in advance that you want them to wrestle with a certain issue. Your choice.

Participants will also be responsible for choosing and leading the discussion on an experiment in an area of research interest to group members.  This is an individual 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

Date

Resource Materials/

Due dates/Comments

 

 Participant Sign-Up

Nov 10

  • Article 1: xxx
  • Article 2: xxx
  • Article 3: xx

Nov 17

  • Article 4: xxx
  • Article 5: xxx
  • Article 6: xxx

Dec 1

  • Article 7: xxx
  • Article 8: xxx

Dec 8

Oral reports

Group x, Group x, Group x, Group x


Group 1: xxx

Group 2: xxx

Group 3: xxx

Group 4: xxx

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