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Esmail Mohebbi – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2025
Microsoft Excel and Access are widely used in introductory courses designed to teach the fundamentals of spreadsheet and relational database modeling skills in various disciplines. To achieve the targeted learning outcomes, instructors of these courses strive to provide students with guided, frequent, and incrementally fruitful practice with the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Spreadsheets, Computer Simulation
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Fisher, Aidan A. E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The drive in computational methods and more intuitive software has seen a rise in the number of publications in this area in recent years. Computational simulations can be found in many areas of science from computational biology and chemistry to fundamental physics. These may help synthetic chemists in their drug discovery endeavors and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computation, Kinetics, Computer Software
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Gordon, Sheldon P.; Gordon, Florence S. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2018
This article illustrates ways that dynamic software using some sophisticated techniques in Excel can be used to demonstrate fundamental ideas related to regression and correlation analysis to increase student understanding of the concepts and methods in elementary statistics courses and in courses at the college algebra/precalculus level that…
Descriptors: Visualization, Regression (Statistics), Correlation, Computer Software
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Quale, Andreas – Physics Education, 2012
In the teaching of physics at upper secondary school level (K10-K12), the students are generally taught to solve problems analytically, i.e. using the dynamics describing a system (typically in the form of differential equations) to compute its evolution in time, e.g. the motion of a body along a straight line or in a plane. This reduces the scope…
Descriptors: Physics, Spreadsheets, Teaching Methods, Equations (Mathematics)
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Krange, Ingeborg; Arnseth, Hans Christian – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
The aim of this study is to scrutinize the characteristics of conceptual meaning making when students engage with virtual worlds in combination with a spreadsheet with the aim to develop graphs. We study how these tools and the representations they contain or enable students to construct serve to influence their understanding of energy resource…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Virtual Classrooms, Secondary School Science
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Atkinson, J. Kirk; Thrasher, Evelyn H.; Coleman, Phillip D. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2011
The purpose of this study is to explore the potential impact of support materials on student spreadsheet skill acquisition. Specifically, this study examines the use of an online spreadsheet simulation tool versus a printed book across two independent student groups. This study hypothesizes that the online spreadsheet simulation tool will have a…
Descriptors: College Students, Spreadsheets, Accounting, Computer Software
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Singh, Gurmukh; Siddiqui, Khalid; Singh, Mankiran; Singh, Satpal – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
The current research article is based on a simple and practical way of employing the computational power of widely available, versatile software MS Excel 2007 to perform interactive computer simulations for undergraduate/graduate students in biology, biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology, medicine in college and university classroom setting. To…
Descriptors: Heredity, Genetics, Biological Sciences, Medical Education
Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2018
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Conferences (Gatherings), College Students, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Benacka, Jan – Informatics in Education, 2013
The article presents a method of explaining the principles of 3D graphics through making a revolvable and sizable orthographic parallel projection of cuboid in Excel. No programming is used. The method was tried in fourteen 90 minute lessons with 181 participants, which were Informatics teachers, undergraduates of Applied Informatics and gymnasium…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Graphics, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
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Jones, Allan; Bissell, Christopher – Research in Learning Technology, 2011
A major strand of science and technology studies in recent decades has related to the social construction of technology (SCOT) movement, whose adherents maintain that technological systems are determined just as much by social forces as by technological ones. Taking this SCOT notion as a starting point, and putting a focus on the user, this paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Computer Software, Educational Technology
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Clarke, Matthew A.; Giraldo, Carlos – Chemical Engineering Education, 2009
Chemical process simulation is one of the most fundamental skills that is expected from chemical engineers, yet relatively few graduates have the opportunity to learn, in depth, how a process simulator works, from programming the unit operations to the sequencing. The University of Calgary offers a "hands-on" postgraduate course in…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Chemical Engineering, Programming, Foreign Countries
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Prayaga, Chandra – Physics Education, 2008
A simple interface between VPython and Microsoft (MS) Office products such as Word and Excel, controlled by Visual Basic for Applications, is described. The interface allows the preparation of content-rich, interactive learning environments by taking advantage of the three-dimensional (3D) visualization capabilities of VPython and the GUI…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Visualization, Scientific Concepts, Computer Software
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Moen, David H.; Powell, John E. – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2005
Using Microsoft Excel, several interactive, computerized learning modules are developed to demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem. These modules are used in the classroom to enhance the comprehension of this theorem. The Central Limit Theorem is a very important theorem in statistics, and yet because it is not intuitively obvious, statistics…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Computer Software, Computer Simulation, Statistics
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Sinex, Scott A; Gage, Barbara A.; Beck, Peggy J. – AMATYC Review, 2007
A simple, guided-inquiry investigation using stacked sandwich cookies is employed to develop a simple linear mathematical model and to explore measurement error by incorporating errors as part of the investigation. Both random and systematic errors are presented. The model and errors are then investigated further by engaging with an interactive…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Measurement, Error of Measurement, Science Process Skills
Barak, Phillip – Journal of Agronomic Education (JAE), 1990
The structure, execution, uses, and software specifications for this spreadsheet file are discussed. Availability and modifications of this program are described. (CW)
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
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