An Experimental Comparison Of Paper And Pencil And Computer Aided Decision Support Tools

Abstract

Four weeks into a multi-period simulation game, a random sample of student groups was given a computer driven decision aid. Until that tine, all groups had been required to use a paper and pencil tool. The two types of student groups were tracked for the remaining periods of the simulation. The results showed that there was no difference between the paper and pencil groups and the randomly chosen groups on several dependent variables. However, the groups differed significantly on attitude toward the simulation.