The electronic spreadsheet as a didactic learning enhancement |
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| Authors: | Ze'ev Orzech Fred Ames Shelton |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A.;2. Department of Accounting, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A.;1. Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland;2. School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland;3. Center for Health Care Ethics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland;1. Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Canada, K1H 8L6;2. School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;3. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia;4. Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women''s Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA, 02120;5. Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;6. Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;7. Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7;1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa;2. Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa;3. Iowa Injury Prevention Center, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Abstract: | A variety of quantitative techniques (such as capital budgeting or linear programming) may be understood more fully by students when they are able to work through relatively simple applications of the techniques by hand. Unfortunately, such manual computations are inherently susceptible to arithmetic errors. The authors propose that students use the electronic spreadsheet to work out these types of problems during their initial learning stage. An advantage of the electronic spreadsheet for this purpose is the automatic calculation of data by the program thereby eliminating the usual arithmetic errors. As long as appropriate formulas are correctly entered into the spreadsheet, the results should be correct.The method presented by the authors does not yield general solutions to capital budgeting or to linear programming problems. Rather, the methodology requires the student to think through the solution process while removing some of the usual drudgery and potential inaccuracies of manual solutions. |
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