Salient Beliefs in Majoring in Management Information Systems: An Elicitation Study

Autor/inn/en	Chipidza, Wallace; Green, Gina; Riemenschneider, Cindy
Titel	Salient Beliefs in Majoring in Management Information Systems: An Elicitation Study
Quelle	In: Information Systems Education Journal, 14 (2016) 4, S.69-80 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-679X
Schlagwörter	Management Information Systems; Beliefs; Questionnaires; Course Selection (Students); Majors (Students); Nonmajors; Behavior Theories; Qualitative Research; Attribution Theory; Student Behavior; College Students; Foreign Countries; United States; Zambia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Managementinformationssystem; Belief; Glaube; Fragebogen; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; Qualitative Forschung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Ausland; USA; Sambia
Abstract	Research utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand behavior should first elicit beliefs about the phenomenon from the target population. In order to understand the reasons why students choose to major or not major in Management Information Systems (MIS), we elicited beliefs from 136 students attending university in the United States and in Zambia. We employed a questionnaire with open-ended questions to elicit beliefs about majoring in MIS. The gender split of study participants was 52%-48% with a female majority and their ages ranged from 19 to 35. Using content analysis of the generated qualitative data, we identified 11, 5 and 9 categories of behavioral, normative and control beliefs respectively. The results of our study indicate that student beliefs about the MIS major and profession have changed over the past decade; students now favorably perceive the MIS job market and attach importance to the opinions of industry professionals when making the decision to major in MIS. Analysis of the ranked elicited beliefs shows that most students believe that the MIS degree grants them competitive advantage in the employment marketplace. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01