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COMPUTER APPLICATIONS: GRADING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS ACCOMPANYING SELECTED PRINCIPLES TEXTS
Author(s) -
WALBERT MARK S.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1989.tb01170.x
Subject(s) - listing (finance) , grading (engineering) , software , computer science , table (database) , software engineering , statistical software , data science , programming language , data mining , economics , engineering , finance , civil engineering
An increasing number of non‐statistical software packages are being written as supplementary instructional material for economics Principles texts. This paper reviews the software programs currently available as ancillary material to eight major Principles texts. To avoid simply listing what the programs do, a detailed framework for economic software evaluation was created and applied to each program. This evaluation instrument gives the reviewer a total of 31 questions, in jive different categories, to guide the software review. A summary table is presented which allows direct comparison of each package across each of the five evaluation categories.