Handling math expressions in economics: recoding spreadsheet teaching tool of growth models

Digital divide in quantitative methods: The effects of computer‐assisted instruction and students' attitudes on knowledge acquisition

“…Considering the limitation of this study in that students were given more time to work on the knowledge test outside of the classroom (as discussed in the procedural section), we find strong support for Hypothesis and confirm that there is a strong association between CAI and students' knowledge acquisition. This finding stands even though we used more complicated statistical software (Stata) than in previous research (Basturk, ; Briand & Hill, ; Gonzalez & Birch, ; Moro‐Egido & Pedauga, ). The implications are twofold.…”

“…For our project, instead of using spreadsheets as used in many previous studies, we used Stata statistical software (Briand & Hill, ; Gonzalez & Birch, ; Moro‐Egido & Pedauga, ). For universities with smaller budgets, SPSS, another statistical software program popular in social science classrooms, can be too expensive, whereas Stata is more affordable.…”

“…Briand and Hill () show that computer‐assisted teaching of basic econometric concepts and learning by doing are more successful techniques for teaching undergraduate students. Similarly, Gonzalez and Birch () and Moro‐Egido and Pedauga () successfully implemented software instruction to improve students' knowledge acquisition. These positive effects of CAI are reported across many cultural settings.…”