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Engelhardt, Bryan; Johnson, Marianne; Meder, Martin - 2021

I In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. In this paper, we compare student performance in the COVID-19 affected semester to that of the previous three unaffected...

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Taking Notes in the Digital Age : Evidence from Classroom Random Control Trials

Artz, Benjamin - 2019

Existing studies of how note-taking tools affect student learning typically find that students who choose to take notes on a computer perform worse on assessments than students who take notes on paper. To our knowledge, the literature has not disentangled whether this result is due to the...

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Teaching Comparative Economic Systems : 25 Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Johnson, Marianne - 2018

Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we reflect on contemporary teaching of undergraduate comparative economic systems (CES). Using qualitative and quantitative measures, we consider how the field responded to the collapse by examining CES textbooks from the 1980s, 1990s,...

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Comparative Economics Systems in the Undergraduate Curriculum

Johnson, Marianne - 2018

This study reports on the status of Comparative Economics Systems (CES) courses in the U.S. undergraduate economics curriculum. The treatment of CES topics in introductory courses is examined through a survey of standard textbooks; findings indicate that the education of American students is...

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Teaching Economics Using Historical Novels : Jonathan Harr’s the Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

Johnson, Marianne - 2018

market structure, pricing, income, and government regulation. We also provide a detailed discussion about how some of these …

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A Meta-Analysis of the Gender Gap in Performance in Collegiate Economics Courses

Johnson, Marianne - 2018

We use meta-regression analysis to investigate the extent and nature of the gender gap - that male students outperform otherwise equivalent female students in economics courses. We survey 65 studies containing 279 distinct regressions from the past 30 years and conclude that the gender gap is...

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The Micro in Principles of Macro : A Survey and Modest Proposal

Johnson, Marianne; Kovzik, Alexander; Burnett, Nancy J. - 2021

To better understand the degree to which students enrolled in principles of macroeconomics are exposed to fundamental microeconomic concepts, we survey twenty popular textbooks. Using the TUCE guidelines as a framework, we categorize the microeconomic content of the textbooks by topic and amount...

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Live or Lecture Capture : Evidence from a Classroom Random Control Trial

Johnson, Marianne; Artz, Benjamin; Robson, Denise; … - 2021

introductory microeconomics were randomly assigned to attend a lecture in person or virtually. They were then quizzed on the …. For an easier topic, however, the opposite was true. Male students benefitted most from lecture capture, particularly on … the more difficult topic. Women students were largely indifferent to changes in lecture modality …

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Business School Grades, Assessment Scores, and Dropout Rates in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Johnson, Marianne; Engelhardt, Bryan; Taengnoi, Sarinda - 2021

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities shifted from predominantly in-person learning to fully online instruction in early 2020. Subsequent semesters faced continued uncertainty regarding course modalities, with institutions adopting an idiosyncratic mix of formats dependent on...

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A Meta-Analysis of Technology Interventions in Collegiate Economics Classes

Johnson, Marianne - 2020

Technological interventions in and out of the classroom have been sold as a way to improve student understanding of economics for decades. Yet despite the panoply of ways to incorporate technology, it is not clear which types of interventions consistently result in statistically significant...

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