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Thomas College Institute

Summer 2008

Session One: June 23 - June 27, 2008

ED558 Educational Statistics

Dr. Stephen Turner

This technologically intensive course requires student familiarity with the Microsoft Windows system and Excel Spreadsheets. Students learn how to use The Minitab System (a professional-level statistical software package) and discover how its use compares and contrasts with the use of Excel spreadsheets. Students learn the difference between description and inference; between accuracy and precision; between calculating statistics and the “management interpretations” for those statistics; discover the role of technology in introductory courses in statistics and learn how important the emphasis on technology and applied data is for changing student attitudes.

AC/FN555 A Business Simulation: Experiencing Strategic and Tactical Decision Making

Thomas F. Largay

This course provides the student with the opportunity to act as a member of strategic management as part of a business simulation. This hands-on course will provide the student with the decision-making tools needed to make decisions such as those regarding inventory management, production methods, marketing territories, and pay structures while allowing them to see the results of these decisions in terms of profit margin, ROI, and other financial criteria. This course serves as a substitute for AC551 Accounting for Management Decisions or as a graduate elective in the MBA or MBA-HR program. 3 credits. AC112 or accounting background.

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