The business community demands payoff from Information Technology (IT) investment. However, both academic and trade literature report mixed results about the business value of IT. Several research and contextual issues might explain these equivocal results and suggest guidelines for future studies. This tutorial discusses these issues and provides directions for future research in measuring IT ...

Physics faculty, experts in evidence-based research, often rely on anecdotal experience to guide their teaching practices. Adoption of research-based instructional strategies is surprisingly low, despite the large body of physics education research (PER) and strong dissemination effort of PER researchers and innovators. Evidence-based PER has validated specific non-traditional teaching practice...