Abstract:

This paper offers a comparison of the results of two questionnaires designed to measure students' initial and subsequent attitudes toward the use of the AECONlntro A DiscoverEcon Tutorial in an introductory agricultural economics course. The results indicate little change in student attitudes after using the tutorial. The lack of change is maintained to be a function of the hazards of failing to understand the limitations of computer-based tutorials, and the overly optimistic expectation that students would be interested in using this educational tool any more than the text on which it is based.

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compuer-based tutorial, agricultural economics course

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