There's been an ongoing debate for years now about learning accounting
alongside the use of a spreadsheet program. Intuitively, one might
expect that programming a spreadsheet with accounting problems would
help the general learning process ... apparently not. I have talked to
some of the people involved in some the research (Cardiff Business
School, early 90s): they were flummoxed as to their own findings. My
conclusion is that they asked the wrong questions in evaluating their
findings!!
Programming a spreadsheet ought to lead to learning at the synthetical
level which is why I am also flummoxed by the research from Cardiff and
maybe from Israel.
Is there any way of getting a copy of the article to me, Chris?: we
could meet in a shady lane in Oxford to hand over plain brown envelopes
as I live nearby!!
Duncan Williamson
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Sent: 31 October 2002 13:49
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Subject: Re: IT in schools
Yesterdays' Economic Journal arrived. It included
a large study on computers in the classroom. The writers examined
massive
trial in Israel. Lottery funding allowed a huge spend on computers in
the
classroom - providing opportunity to find out if there was any learning
benefit.
After some pretty impressive looking research on a massive sample the
conclusion - absolutely no improvement in learning at all....
Food for thought!
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