RICHARD JOHN FENDLER, Ph.D. EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL), August, 1990. Major field: Investments; Minor fields: Corporate Finance and Statistics. Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), August, 1984. Major field: Economics. Bachelor of Arts, Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA), May, 1979. Major field: Economics. WORK EXPERIENCE: Assistant Professor of Finance, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, (September 1988 to present). Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL, (September 1982 to August 1988). Graduate Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, (August 1979 to August 1982). EDITORIAL DUTIES Co-editor, Journal of Financial Education, 2013 Co-editor, Advances in Financial Education, 2013 PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Scholarly: Ashraf, R., Fendler, R. J. & Shrikhande, M. (2013). Impact of Personality Types and Learning Styles on Performance of Finance Majors, Journal of Financial Education, Vol. 39, Fall/Winter, No. 3/4: 47-68. Fendler, R. J., Ruff, C., & Shrikhande, M. (2011). Online Versus In-class Teaching: Learning Levels Explain Student Performance. Journal of Financial Education, Fall/Winter, Vol. 37, No. 3/4: 46-64. Fendler, R. J., Ruff, C., & Shrikhande, M. (2009). Teaching styles, Learning levels, and Student performance in the Finance core. Advances in Financial Education, Volume 7, Summer/Winter: 56-85. Books and Monographs: Kale, J. & Fendler, R. (2013). Lectures in Corporate Finance (6th ed.). Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA. ISBN: 9781465201478.
Non-Refereed and Other: Fendler, R., & Shrikhande, M. (2012). No significant difference unless you are a jumper. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Fendler, R., & Shrikhande, M. (2012). Risk aversion as a driver of gender differences in business education. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Fendler, R. J., Ruff, C., & Shrikhande, M. (2011). Predicting student failure in an online course: implications for advisement. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Shrikhande, M., Fendler, R., & Ruff, C. (2011). To study online or in-class: decided by risktolerance?. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Shrikhande, M., Fendler, R., & Ruff, C. (2011). Business majors, teaching strategies and learning styles. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Fendler, R., Shrikhande, M., & Ruff, C. (2010). Dr. _, should I take this course online?. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Shrikhande, M., Fendler, R., & Ruff, C. (2010). Do teaching & learning styles affect student performance across levels of learning?. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Ruff, C., Fendler, R., & Shrikhande, M. (2010). Gender and major selection: accounting versus finance. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Shrikhande, M., & Fendler, R. (2009). Online versus In-Class Teaching: Learning Levels Explain Student Performance. Commons Conference Proceedings. Shrikhande, M., & Fendler, R. (2009). Are some students better suited for online class and others better suited for in-class?. Commons Conference Proceedings. Fendler, R. J., & Shrikhande, M. M. (2009). Teaching As if Learning Mattered. SoTL Commons Conference Proceedings. Fendler, Richard. (1991). "Conditional Heteroscedasticity in the Mean and Variance of Intraday and Inter-day Futures Returns." Ph.D. Dissertation University of Alabama. Fendler, Richard. (1985). "Real Growth, Inflation and The Divisia Monetary Index." Master s Thesis Vanderbilt University. Work in Progress: Fendler, R. J., Ruff, C., & Shrikhande, M. (2014). Evaluating Characteristics of Top and Bottom Performance: Online versus In-class. Under review at the American Journal of Distance Education.
Fendler, R. J. & Godbey, J. (2014). Cheaters Never Win: Designing an Exam to Measure and Reduce the Benefits to Cheating. Under review at Research in Higher Education. Bredthauer, J. & Fendler, R.J. (2014). Predictors of Success in an Online Undergraduate Core Course in Finance. Accepted for presentation at the Academy of Economics and Finance annual conference (February 4-7, 2015) in Jacksonville, Florida. Targeted for the Journal of Economics and Financial Education. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings: How to Outsmart (and covertly punish) Cheaters on In-class Multiple Choice Exams. (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-author: J. Godbey). Academy of Economics and Finance 2014 Annual Conference. Chattanooga, TN. Student Perceptions of Teaching Styles used by their Professors. Academy of Economics and Finance 2014 Annual Conference. Chattanooga, TN. Online Versus In-Class Learning: Characteristics that May Explain Differences in Relative Performance at Different Learning Levels, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-authors: C. Ruff and Milind Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2013 Annual Conference. Bermuda. Cheaters Never Win? Estimating the Benefits of Cheating and Designing an Exam to Prevent Them, (Co-presenters: Richard Fendler and Jonathan Godbey). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2013 Annual Conference. Bermuda. The Prevalence of Cheating on Introductory Finance Common Final Exams, (Presenter: Jonathan Godbey; co-author: R. Fendler). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2012 Annual Conference. Charleston, SC. Student Attitudes about Online Learning, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-authors: C. Ruff and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2012 Annual Conference. Charleston, SC. Identifying Characteristics of Top Versus Bottom Performance in Online Versus Traditional Classes, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-authors: C. Ruff and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2012 Annual Conference. Charleston, SC. No Significant Difference Unless You Are a 'Jumper', (Presenter: Richard Fendler; coauthors: Association 2012 Annual Conference. Charleston, SC. Predicting Student Failure in an Online Course: Implications for Advisement, (Presenter: Milind Shrikhande; co-authors: R. Fendler and C. Ruff). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2011 Annual Conference. Disney World, FL. Impact of Teaching Style Perceptions on Student Performance, (Presenter: Milind Shrikhande; co-authors: R. Fendler and C. Ruff). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2011 Annual Conference. Disney World, FL.
Gender and Major Selection: Accounting versus Finance, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; coauthors: Association 2010 Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. Online versus In-Class: A Direct Assessment of Learning and Cheating, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-author: J. Godbey). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2010 Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. Dr. Should I Take Your Course Online?, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; coauthors: Association 2010 Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. Predicting Online Student Performance in the Finance Core, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-authors: C. Ruff and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2009 Annual Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL. Teaching and Learning: Do Teaching Styles Matter in Perfomance, (Presenter: Richard Fendler; co-authors: C. Ruff and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2009 Annual Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL. Different Levels of Learning: Efficacy of In-Class versus E-education, (Presenter: Craig Ruff; co-authors: R. Fendler and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2007 Annual Conference. Bermuda. Identifying Characteristics of Top versus Bottom Performance in Online versus Traditional Classes, (Presenter: Craig Ruff; co-authors: R. Fendler and M. Shrikhande). Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association 2007 Annual Conference. Bermuda. Do Teaching Styles Matter for Student Performance? (Presenter: Richard Fendler; coauthors: C. Ruff and M. Shrikhande). CTMS conference 2005. Reno, Nevada. Measuring Student Outcomes, Financial Education Association Meetings 2004. Orlando, Florida. "Is There a Term Structure to the Cost of Equity?" Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 1993. Toronto, Canada. "Transaction Price Volatility in Futures Markets," Financial Management Association Annual Meetings 1990. Boston, Massachusetts. CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITIES: Global Education Initiative (GEI), May 3 and 4, 2012. Georgia State University. Selected to be workshop participant to globalize FI 4020 for spring 2013 semester. Critical Thinking through Writing Workshop, Georgia State University. Attended annual workshop for GSU CTW Ambassadors to discuss incorporating, and measuring impact of, CTW assignments in FI 4020. Workshop dates: August 17, 2012, August 26, 2011, August 27, 2010, August 21, 2009 and August 29, 2008. Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program. December 1, 2014 to February 27, 2015. This program, offered by the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium), is designed to help me fine tune my existing distance learning courses (FI 3300 and FI 8000).
SERVICE ACTIVITIES INTERNAL TO UNIVERSITY: Member of Faculty Senate. 1998 to present. Member of Senate Budget committee. 1998 to present. Member of Senate Research Committee. 1998 to 2008; member of Senate Athletics committee. 2009 to present. Finance Department Ambassador, Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) program. January 2007 to present. Department of Finance Faculty Representative, MyRobinson Steering Committee. 2009-2010. FI 3300 Course Coordinator. 1991 to 2010. Finance Department Coordinator of the Field Studies Courses (FI4391 and FI8391) Since 2008, over 150 finance majors have completed a semester long field study with several reputed financial service and non-financial organizations such as Finlistics, Coca-Cola, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, Iron Capital Advisors, Decatur Capital, Prairie Capital Advisors, Ryder, Sun-Trust Bank, Morgan Keegan, JP Turner, and Northwestern Mutual Financial under my guidance and supervision. The field studies were developed together with a 3-credit course for graduate (FI 8391) and undergraduate (FI 4391) students. Each student doing field study at a company had a mentor/ supervisor at the organization, completed a term project on a topic of current implementation interest, completed a set of assignments based on building bridges between the classroom and the workplace, and lessons learned during the internship on project management and work ethic. Instruction was received by the student via the supervisor, and via seminars, short-term courses, or formal/informal instruction from managers within the organization. As faculty coordinator for these field studies, the final assessment of performance was based on all of the above deliverables during the semester. SERVICE ACTIVITIES IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Referee for Business Economics. Tobin's Q and Stock Market Performance. August 2014. Referee for Business Economics. Predictability of Bank Stock Returns: Evidence from the Endurance Index of Bank Investor Sentiment. November 2013. Referee for the Journal of Financial Education. Math Knowledge as a Predictor of Introductory Financial Management Success. March 2013. Chair of Program Session: Issues in Online Teaching. Academy of Business Education/Financial Education Association Conference 2012. Charleston, SC. Referee for the Journal of Financial Education. "Teaching Financial Literacy with Process- Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning [POGIL]." June 2012. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY: Volunteer Treasurer for Cobb Amateur Soccer League (a non-profit organization). 1990 to 2008. Elected vice president and director of finance of Canterbury Homeowner s Association Board of Directors (January 20, 2013 - Present)