ABSTRACT

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 212 What is Quality? .................................................................................................... 212 Learning Behavior.................................................................................................. 213 Literature on the Quality-Learning Relationship ................................................... 214

Mathematical relationship ................................................................................. 214 Wright (1936) model .................................................................................... 214 Fine (1986) ................................................................................................... 215 Tapiero (1987) .............................................................................................. 217 Fine (1988) ................................................................................................... 218 Chand (1989) ................................................................................................220 Urban (1998) ................................................................................................ 221 Jaber and Guiffrida (2004) ........................................................................... 223 Jaber and Guiffrida (2008) ...........................................................................224 Jaber and Khan (2010) .................................................................................225