@article {1970521, title = {BA302: Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP Exercise/Walkthrough}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {25}, abstract = {Whether you enter the workforce as a sales manager, financial accountant or office admin, chances are that you will be working with some type of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The purpose of this exercise/walkthrough is to familiarize you with a typical business process as it is commonly executed with the help of one of the leading ERP systems in the market today {\textendash} Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This exercise will walk you through the six steps of a typical sales process: 1) Creating a customer order; 2) Backordering an out-of-stock item; 3) Receiving the backordered item; 4) Shipping the customer the ordered items and invoicing the customer; 5) Receiving payment from the customer; 6) Making a payment to the vendor from whom we backordered. As you make your way through this exercise, you should realize that in a real company this process would be executed by different people working in different departments. They all will interact with the ERP; i.e., they all retrieve information from the ERP and store new information in it, as the sales process progresses. In this exercise you take on the role of each of these people, giving you a sense of how the sales order is processed both by the company and by the ERP.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1957/59858}, author = {Curry,Michael and Marshall,Byron and Raja,V.T. and Reitsma,Reindert and Wydner,Kirk} } @conference {1973181, title = {Unraveling K-12 Standard Alignment; Report on a New Attempt}, booktitle = {Joint Conference on Digital Libraries}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, abstract = {We present the results of an experiment which indicates that automated alignment of electronic learning objects to educational standards may be more feasible than previously implied. We highlight some important deficiencies in existing alignment systems and formulate suggestions for improved future ones. We consider how the changing substance of newer educational standards, a multi-faceted view of standard alignment, and a more nuanced view of the {\textquoteleft}alignment{\textquoteright} concept may bring the long-sought goal of automated standard alignment closer. We explore how lexical similarity of documents, a World+Method representation of semantics, and network-based analysis can yield promising results. We furthermore investigate the nature of false positives to better understand how validity of match is evaluated so as to better focus future alignment system development.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Reitsma,Reindert and Samson,Carleigh} } @article {1973191, title = {Can Intermediary-based Science Standards Crosswalking Work? Some Evidence from Mining the Standard Alignment Tool (SAT)}, journal = {Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology}, volume = {63}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {1843-1858}, abstract = {We explore the feasibility of intermediary-based crosswalking and alignment of K-12 science education standards. With increasing availability of K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) digital library content, alignment of that content with educational standards is a significant and continuous challenge. Whereas direct, one-to-one alignment of standards is preferable but currently unsustainable in its resource demands, less resource-intensive intermediary-based alignment offers an interesting alternative. But will it work? We present the results from an experiment in which the machine-based Standard Alignment Tool (SAT) {\textemdash}incorporated in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL){\textemdash} was used to collect over half a million direct alignments between standards from different standard-authoring bodies. These were then used to compute intermediary-based alignments derived from the well-known AAAS Project 2061 Benchmarks and NSES standards. Results show strong variation among authoring bodies in their success to crosswalk with best results for those who modeled their standards on the intermediaries. Results furthermore show a strong inverse relationship between recall and precision when both intermediates where involved in the crosswalking.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, url = {http://people.oregonstate.edu/~marshaby/Papers/ReitsmaMarshallChart_StandardsCrosswalking_JASIST2012.pdf}, author = {Reitsma,Reindert and Marshall,Byron and Chart,Trevor} } @article {1970546, title = {Organizational Information Technology Norms and IT Quality}, journal = {Communications of the IIMA}, volume = {11}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, abstract = {The effectiveness of IT governance initiatives in improving IT{\textquoteright}s contribution to organizational success has been demonstrated but the mechanisms by which improved outcomes are realized have largely remained unexplored. Although IT governance tools such as COBIT and ITIL specify procedures and policies for the management of IT resources, the experts who developed those tools also embedded a set of core principles or {\textquoteleft}norms{\textquoteright} in the underlying frameworks. This article explores these norms and their role in the realization of organizational IT quality. Through analysis of normative messages implicitly expressed in the documentation elements provided by COBIT, we extract two norms (commitment to improvement and a risk/control perspective) thought to indicate that an organization has adopted the spirit of IT governance. Next, we model the relationship between adoption of these norms and IT quality and evaluate the model with data from a survey of 86 individuals who use, manage, and/or deliver organizational IT services. Principal component analysis is used to validate the survey items. Results show statistically significant relationships between norm adoption, participation in norm-driven activities, and organizational IT quality.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, url = {http://www.iima.org/index.php?option=com_phocadownload\&view=category\&id=60:2011-volume-11-issue-4\&Itemid=68}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Curry,Michael and Reitsma,Reindert} } @conference {1984586, title = {World vs. Method: Educational Standard Formulation Impacts Document Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL{\textquoteright}11),Ottawa, Canada.}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, abstract = {Although initiatives are underway in the educational community to consolidate disparate collections of educational standards, little has been done to explore the impact of educational standard formulation on information retrieval. Recent research contrasts two categories of educational standards: {\textquoteleft}World{\textquoteright} (topical domain-related concepts) and {\textquoteleft}Method{\textquoteright} (investigative and epistemological principles). This paper explores the information retrieval implications of the World vs. Method distinction. We find that experts are more likely to agree about which educational resources align with a Method standard but that a typical automatic standard assignment tool is more likely to assign a World standard to an educational resource. Further, a text-based information retrieval system is more likely to be accurate in retrieving documents relevant to a World standard as compared to a Method standard. These findings have implications both for educational standard formulation (combining World and Method components in a standard may improve retrieval) and for digital library builders who want to help teachers identify useful, standards-aligned learning objects.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Reitsma,Reindert} } @article {1973196, title = {Aspects of {\textquoteright}Relevance{\textquoteright} in the Alignment of Curriculum with Educational Standards}, journal = {Information Processing \& Management}, volume = {46}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, pages = {362-376}, abstract = {Retrieval of useful digitized learning objects is a key objective for educational digital libraries, but imprecise definitions of alignment hinder the development of effective retrieval mechanisms. With over 63,000 U.S. K-12 science and mathematics education standards and a rapid proliferation of Web-enabled curriculum, retrieving curriculum that aligns with the standards to which teachers must teach is increasingly important. Previous studies of such alignment use single-dimensional and binary measures of relevance. Perhaps as a consequence they suffer from low inter-rater reliability (IRR), with experts agreeing about alignments only some 20-40\% of the time. We present the results of an experiment in which the dependent variable {\textquoteleft}alignment{\textquoteright} is operationalized using the Saracevic model of relevance in which; i.e., alignment is defined and measured through {\textquoteleft}clues{\textquoteright} from the everyday practice of K-12 teaching. Results show higher inter-rater reliability on all clues with significantly higher IRR on several specific alignment dimensions. In addition, a (linear) model of {\textquoteleft}overall alignment{\textquoteright} is derived and estimated. Both the structure and explanatory power of the model differ significantly between searching vs. assessment. These results illustrate the usefulness of clue-based relevance measures for information retrieval and have important consequences for both the formulation of automated retrieval mechanisms and the construction of a gold standard set of standard-curriculum alignments.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VC8-4XF7Y02-1/2/3fd5e4257f3d904d5929eeff2185c678}, author = {Reitsma,Reindert and Marshall,Byron and Zarske,Malinda} } @conference {1984386, title = {Does Using CobiT Improve IT Solution Proposals?}, booktitle = {AAA Annual Meeting, IS Section}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, abstract = {The CobiT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) framework is designed to help organizations implement IT governance practices by systematically shaping identifiable IT processes to better leverage IT expenditures. The control structure advocated in CobiT embodies governance notions including business alignment, a risk/control perspective, systematic measurement, accountability, and continuous improvement. Despite the rise of internal control regulation, not all organizations have implemented systematic IT controls and many, notably small, organizations may never do so. This study explores whether exposing decision makers to CobiT positively affects the IT solutions they generate. We present a framework (drawn primarily from the structure of CobiT) for identifying normatively better IT plans as measured by application of governance principles. We report on 115 IT solution proposals created by business students. The proposals developed using CobiT more frequently took a risk/control approach, addressed the need for continuous improvement, referred to general IT processes, identified the people who should implement a solution, and proposed more measures of success. Thus, exposing decision makers to a systematic IT governance framework promises to help them generate more comprehensive solutions to IT challenges.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Curry,Michael and Reitsma,Reindert} } @conference {1984381, title = {IT Governance Norms and IT Success}, booktitle = {2nd annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on Accounting Information Systems}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, address = {December 2010, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.}, abstract = {The checklists included in well-known IT governance frameworks may be a good fit for
large organizations that face regulatory pressure and a need for large-scale coordination
but may be less appropriate for smaller organizations. Core IT governance principles
embedded in the structure of CobiT, ITIL, and ISO2000 can be expressed as a set of IT
governance norms including business alignment, a risk/control perspective, systematic
measurement, accountability, and continuous improvement. In this study, we model IT
effectiveness and willingness to comply with best practices as effects of adopting these
norms. We propose a set of survey items tailored to help assess the constructs in this
model then partially validate them using principal components analysis. Survey
responses (n=86) reveal a significant connection between evidence of norm adoption in
organizations and IT success. This norms-based paradigm may be useful in bringing
some of the benefits of IT governance to the smaller organizations that are thought to
drive economic growth and employment.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Curry,Michael and Reitsma,Reindert} } @conference {1984591, title = {Dimensional Standard Alignment in K-12 Digital Libraries: Assessment of Self-found vs. Recommended Curriculum}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL{\textquoteright}09), Austin, TX}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1555400.1555403}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Reitsma,Reindert and Zarske,Malinda} } @article {1981331, title = {TeachEngineering: K-12 Teacher Use Study}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, address = {Boulder, CO.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Reitsma,Reindert and Marshall,Byron} } @conference {1984596, title = {Semantics or Standards for Curriculum Search?}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 181-182}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, address = {New York, NY}, abstract = {Aligning digital library resources with national and state educational standards to help K-12 teachers search for relevant curriculum is an important issue in the digital library community. Aligning standards from different states promises to help teachers in one state find appropriate materials created and cataloged elsewhere. Although such alignments provide a powerful means for crosswalking standards and curriculum across states, alignment matrices are intrinsically sparse. Hence, we hypothesize that such sparseness may cause significant numbers of false negatives when used for searching curriculum. Our preliminary results confirm the false negative hypothesis, demonstrate the usefulness of term-based techniques in addressing the false negative problem, and explore ways to combine term occurrence data with standards correlations.}, keywords = {Accounting, BIS}, author = {Marshall,Byron and Reitsma,Reindert and Cyr,Martha N} }