Creation of Economic Science Laboratory to Teach Classroom Experiments at Multiple Sites

在鲍灵格林州立大学-菲尔兹学院，安装一个专用的个人电脑局域网（LAN）将用于创建一个创新的经济学课程，在这个课程中，新的课堂实验将在国际金融、公共产品和讨价还价方面进行。通过这些和其他以前使用的经济实验设计，本科生将使用科学的方法来实证验证经济理论。本实验也可用于生成数据，以评估在经济学中使用课堂实验与仅使用标准课堂教学方法是否能提高知识的保留。该实验室不仅将用于经济学的统计数据分析，还将用于统计学、心理学和社会学课程。该局域网将配备一台文件服务器、教员机和20台配备奔腾微型计算机的工作站。这个局域网将连接到全校范围的TCP/IP主干网。因此，这个局域网可以连接到大学内外其他地方已有的局域网。这将允许两个或多个局域网之间的实时交互。这意味着两个或更多部分的学生将能够共同参与市场实验。每学期将有500名学生使用该实验室。菲尔兰学院拥有独特的学生群体，女性占67.1%。人文教育学习过程项目每年帮助120多名接受抚养子女家庭援助的妇女获得副学士学位和就业。几乎所有这些项目参与者都将使用该实验室。

At Bowling Green State University -- Firelands College, the installation of a dedicated local area network (LAN) of personal computers will be used to create an innovative economics curriculum in which new classroom experiments will be conducted in international finance, public goods, and bargaining. With these and other previously used economic experimental designs, undergraduate students will use the scientific method to empirically verify economic theories. This lab may also be useful in generating data for assessing whether using classroom experiments in economics enhances retention of knowledge versus using only standard lecture teaching methods. The lab will also be used for statistical data analysis not only in economics, but also in statistics, psychology, and sociology courses. The LAN will have a file server, instructor's machine, and 20 workstations with Pentium microcomputers. This LAN will be connected to the university-wide TCP/IP backbone. Consequently, this LAN can be connected to the pre-existing LANs at other locations within and outside the university. This will allow for real time interaction between two or more LANs. This means that two or more sections of students will be able to jointly participate in a market experiment. In all, 500 students per semester will use the lab. Firelands College serves a distinctive student body, with women comprising 67.1 percent. The Humanistic Educational Learning Process Program assists over 120 women each year who are recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children to receive associate degrees and gain employment. Nearly all of these Program participants will use the lab.