I looked up Cahill and on his home page found a link to Teaching with Spreadsheets. Well, I had to go there! The link leads to several related pages. I want to look through it all.
In addition, the sidebar contains several links I couldn't resist visiting, including
- Quantitative Writing
'A good quantitative writing assignment engages students with an open-ended, ambiguous, data-rich problem requiring the thinker to understand principles and concepts rather than simply applying formulae. Assignments ask students to produce a claim with supporting reasons and evidence rather than "the answer" ...'
- Examples
Examples include updated versions of Cahill's PDF, "Exploring Easter Island Economics with Excel", and "What would GDP have been in 2009 if growth didn't slow down in the 1970s?"
- and References
Not all the references have links, but some do, including Melanie Dawson's Peer Editing Guide which might well make a handy self-editing guide.
2 comments:
At the "quantitative writing" link there is some mention on "ill-structured" problems. For more on ill- and well-structured problems see 1957: When Machines that Think, Learn, and Create Arrived at Conversable Economist.
Unfortunately, GDP is rapidly falling and affects all economic spheres of our life ...
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