Undergraduate Researcher of the Year 2009
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

Natali Naegle is a marketing and economics major who has been involved in undergraduate research in the newly formed Management Department with Dr. Stacey Hills since 2006.  She has focused primarily on business pedagogy issues, completing separate projects on student evaluation salience and student procrastination behaviors.  As part of these projects, she conducted literature reviews, assisted in survey design and collected and analyzed data.  Natali’s greatest contribution in these endeavors is participating as a second author of “How Important Are Items on a Student Evaluation? A Study of Item Salience” in which she was instrumental in addressing the issue of whether or not students actually view evaluation items as important.  This work has been accepted to and is awaiting publication in the Journal of Education for Business, one of the top-ranked journals in the area of business pedagogy.  Natali has also been the primary author on several undergraduate research projects and one refereed conference proceeding. She has presented twice at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research and also at the Marketing Management Association. She is a native of Bountiful, Utah.