Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 19, No. 4
Issue: Fall 1988
Pages: pp. 353-362
Author(s): Keith Lumsden (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) and Alex Scott (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Title: A Characteristics Approach to the Evaluation of Economics Software Packages
Abstract: Using the Bloom taxonomy of learning, the authors identify elements of student and instructor interest and then develop characteristics that are useful in analytically evaluating software packages for instruction in economics. They illustrate the technique with the extensively used software package Running the British Economy.