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This paper critically evaluates two different approaches to teaching macroeconomics at the undergraduate level through the comparison of two popular, recent handbooks: Olivier Blanchard's Macroeconomics (2021) and William Mitchell, Randall Wray and Martin Watts's Macroeconomics (2019). These...
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since birth. This paper aims to check to what extent the above statements apply to University of Mostar (SUM) students. For … this purpose, the authors researched SUM students to determine how they self-assess their knowledge and use of Internet … authors compared the results obtained by surveying students with actual exam results. The results of the research suggest that …
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student performance on the TUCE III. Common influences, those shared by all students in a given classroom, included: day vs …. night time of course; class size; peer effects; and teacher effects. Samples of 500 pre-test students and 400 post tests … survey of the teachers and to department records. Operating by random chance, 76 pretest students were resampled on posttests …
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is especially true for students from quantitative-finance, MSF, business analytics or financial engineering programs … students at 3 schools, the following 7 factors are critical for designing and teaching such a course: strong motivation, a good …
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colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics … supplemental information with students. This article contains a detailed, step-by-step guide to embedding a twitter feed within a … LMS. Examples of how twitter can be used to share information to students in a Principles of Macroeconomics course are …
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The COVID-19 government measures coerced instructors to immediately change the teaching and examination formats. We analyze the situation at German business and economics faculties and provide evidence on how the sudden digitalization affects examination results. We show that courses taught...
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It is crazy to teach business students both R and Python at the same time! It was my thought when asked to teach such a … course in 2020. However, after one-semester’s heavy struggle together with my students, I found that such a course is not … own lecture notes; 2) use concepts and formulae suitable for business students; 3) tons of in-class exercises; 4) use the …
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Online course enrollments have grown tremendously in recent years, but little research has examined the difference in student performance between traditional courses and their online counterparts. This research explores factors affecting student performance in online courses, compared to what...
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The author describes a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) group assignment in which students predict macroeconomic outcomes … Macroeconomics textbooks. The author also gives a brief history of the use of PBL, describes how it benefits students and teachers of … Problem-Based Learning environment, students confront contemporary dilemmas that through investigation, research and …
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Despite a large literature, convincingly establishing the determinants of student evaluations of teaching (SET) scores has been elusive, largely due to incorrect statistical methods and a paucity of data. The data used in this study comprise a much larger span of time than in any previous...
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