EDINEB

			    Conference II

			Educational Innovation
	       in Economics and Business Administration
				   
		       Examination for Quality?
				   
			  17-19 August 1995
				   
				  at
				   
		  The Department of Business Studies
		     Uppsala University, Uppsala
				Sweden
				   
				   
			   Call for papers
				 and
			  first announcement
	 Second  EDINEB conference: EXAMINATION FOR QUALITY?
				   
The crucial importance of the way students are examined for their work and
performance is well known to all engaged in education.  For many students the
main guideline for how to study is not the formal curriculum but how they
expect to be evaluated. Examples of old examination tests are often more in
the focus for interest than the formulated purpose of the education.

An investigator of examinations carried out at universities will find that to
a  large extent the examinations consist of written tests examining if the
students have read the prescribed textbookand memorized the content at he time
of the test. Sometimes the students do not even have to formulate their
answers in their own words, because their memories are tested through multiple
choice questions.

The main intentions at this conference are to discuss questions related to how
we should or should not examine students. Questions to discuss are:

  * Why do we really examine students?
  * Why not let the students examine themselves or each other?
  * Would there occur any learning without examination?
  * Could we turn examination into an event of learning?
  * What do we really measure in an examination? Ability to repeat or ability to
use knowledge?
  * What is the relation between examination and long run memory?

Presentations and discussions about innovative forms of examinations as well
as research about the effects on learning in different forms of examinations
are in the main focus of the conference.

Other invited areas for education examples and research are:

- Choice of curricula, contents and instructional methods.
- Role of computers and information technology in education.
- Educational organization, eg how to encourage and manage change processes.
- Cognitive science perspectives on learning.
- Problem-based learning. The state of the art.
- Distance education and multimedia- education of the future?

Although papers for the conference are invited in those areas, other topics
connected to educational problems are also welcome. The organizing group will
give priority to workshop sessions, where related topics can be discussed.

A poster session will be organized for those wanting to present their work in
this way.
Although the members of the EDINEB-network are departments of economics and
business subjects, other disciplines dealing with similar educational problems
are also invited. This includes the professional groups from departments of
pedagogy.

		   EDINEB-NETWORK - A PRESENTATION.

EDINEB (Educational Innovation in Economics and Business) is the name for a
network that was founded at the First Edineb Conference, December 1993 in
Maastricht, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,
University of Limburg,the Netherlands. This highly successful conference on
Problem-based Learning in in Ecomics and Business, brought together teachers
in economics and business, decision-makers, educational psychologists and
other persons interested in educational innovation in economics and business.
At this conference a network was founded to organize continued meetings for
people interested in economics and business education, and to exchange ideas
and experiences about educational innovation in this field.

The general aim of the EDINEB-Network is to provide mutual support to member
institutions who wish to adapt their curriculum to highly innovative programs.

There are three primary goals:

  * strengthening of membership institutions in their realization of innovative
programs.

  * strengthening of faculty capacities related to innovative education.

  * development of technologies, approaches (such as problem-based learning),
methdologies and tools appropriate to to curricula emphasizing applied
economics to domestic situations, or curricula especially designed for
developing countries focusing on (local) societal needs, or curricula with an
orientation to skills training.

Strategies to achieve these goals can be summarized as follows:

  * Emphasis on institutional support and capacity building through exchanges,
dissemination of information, improved communication and publications;

  * Emphasis on partnerships between universities;

  * Focus on research and development, in particular regarding questions of
relevance to education in economics and business administration.

		  DATES FOR ABSTRACTS AND RESPONSES

			 SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Deadline for abstracts for papers to be presented at the conference is March 1.
Authors will be notified of acceptance on April 15.
Final versions of papers are due May 31 

			   CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee is 1300 SEK for EDINEB-members (1500 SEK for non-members)
if the registration is made before May 31.

After that date the fee will be 1500 SEK for members and 1700 SEK for
non-members.

The conference fee includes: admission to all sessions, conference material, 3
lunches, 1 dinner and social program. It also includes conference proceedings.

			     PUBLICATION

A selection of papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

			       SUPPORT

The conference is supported by Uppsala University and the Council for the
Renewal of Undergraduate Education.

			   MORE INFORMATION

Please contact 
associate professor Finn Wiedersheim-Paul
fax +46 18 55 53 86
tel. +46 18 18 13 78
e-mail: Finn.Wiedersheim-Paul@fek.uu.se