Students employ marginal analysis in investigating various problems regarding resource allocation.The majority of first-year students, however, seem to struggle in applying it to a firm’s profit maximisation problem.Their confusion appears to stem from textbooks for introductory microeconomics courses oversimplifying some subtle points regarding the profit maximisation problem.This paper (1) po...

There are multiple objectives for the course. Most important among them is to introduce students to a range of basic experimental designs and to provide them with the skills to statistically examine data collected with each type of design. Other important objectives are to provide students with skills: (a) in designing experiments which fit the their substantive questions, (b) in reporting the ...

The interpretations of logical expressions found in most introductory textbooks are not suitable for use in software engineering applications because they do not deal with partial functions. More advanced papers and texts deal with partial functions in a variety of complex ways. This paper proposes a very simple change to the classic interpretation of predicate expressions, one that defines the...

Most introductory robotics textbooks have been written from the mechanical engineering perspective. These texts spend hundreds of pages studying gears, motors, sensors, and other related topics. While a computer scientist needs to know something about these topics, he or she certainly is not concerned with them to the degree that the texts cover. Meanwhile, the texts leave out many of the topic...

Games offer OR/MS lecturers and students important educational resources. However, for various reasons the OR/MS literature in general and introductory textbooks in particular scarcely make use of this treasure. In this discussion we suggest that it is time to reconsider this position and regard games as a valuable source for developing educationally rich material for OR/MS courses. Hopefully t...

This paper deals with an issue of relevance to all those involved in teaching accounting from a student-centred perspective – the order in which topics should be introduced to students in an introductory accounting subject. The stated purpose of the paper is “to stimulate debate” (p. 9). In order to do this, the author presents an argument for her proposed ordering for the introduction of topic...

This article offers some personal reflections on the difficulty of teaching the behaviorist perspective in the psychology classroom. The problems focus on the inadequacy of introductory textbooks-which mischaracterize behaviorism, only present the most extreme behaviorist positions, make no mention of the neobehaviorist perspective, fail to discuss that there is no accepted criteria for determi...

Educators are struggling finding or developing object oriented example programs of high quality. Common examples are often perceived as not fully faithful to all principles and guidelines of the object oriented paradigm or as not following general pedagogical principles and practices. This working group aims at investigating the “State-ofPractice” of object-oriented example programs for novices...