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Michael C. Robbins; Zhuping Li – Field Methods, 2025
The Nolan Index (NI) is a normed, quantitative measure for comparing the degree of resemblance (similarity or dissimilarity) between free listings with an Excel program for calculating it. This article enhances that effort with the addition of an R program and additional applications. Free-list resemblance measures have been used to investigate…
Descriptors: Computation, Norm Referenced Tests, Comparative Analysis, Spreadsheets
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Mark W. Isken – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025
A staple of many spreadsheet-based management science courses is the use of Excel for activities such as model building, sensitivity analysis, goal seeking, and Monte-Carlo simulation. What might those things look like if carried out using Python? We describe a teaching module in which Python is used to do typical Excel-based modeling and…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Models, Programming Languages, Monte Carlo Methods
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Justin Gambrell; Eric Brewe – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Computational thinking in physics has many different forms, definitions, and implementations depending on the level of physics or the institution it is presented in. To better integrate computational thinking in introductory physics, we need to understand what physicists find important about computational thinking in introductory physics. We…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills