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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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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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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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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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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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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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Twenty Years of Teaching Economics with Technology

Johnson, Marianne; Meder, Martin - 2023

This meta-analysis considers the use of technology to facilitate learning in undergraduate economics courses. We ask what technologies have been adopted, who did the adopting, and how effectiveness was evaluated. A survey of 237 articles published between 2000 and 2020 demonstrates that while...

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