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Article: The effectiveness of concept maps in introductory Microeconomics.
- Article from:
- Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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1 Introduction
If one was to ask a first year Microeconomics student to explain the process of equilibrium, it is highly likely that their response would consist of a demand and supply diagram and a written explanation that would look something like the following, quantity demanded > quantity supplied [right arrow] [up arrow] P [right arrow] [down arrow] QD, [up arrow] QS [right arrow] QD=QS. Demand and supply diagrams and the casual relationships that often accompany such diagrams are prominent teaching tools for first year Microeconomics. Yet it is somewhat puzzling that concept maps, which can incorporate all of the above information, have not been so readily ...