“…This approach, individual reading and peer discussion (as opposed to instructor direction or individual hands‐on lab experience), has been shown to improve learning transfer (Mayer, Dale, Fraccastoro, & Moss, ). Excel has proved itself many times as a useful tool in conveying advanced quantitative concepts (e.g., Bai, Newsome, & Zhang, ; Cobb, ), perhaps in part because Excel models (with transparent functionality in the cells) help students avoid the sense that the application is a “black box” beyond their comprehension (Pinder, ).…”