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The Effect of Class Attendance and Lecture Notes on Learning Outcomes
Harmon, Oskar R. - 2013
At many large universities it is conventional to deliver undergraduate introductory economics courses in a large lecture hall. However, not surprisingly, casual empiricism suggests that rates of student absenteeism are significantly greater in a large lecture format than in a smaller classroom...
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The Role of Relevance in Economics Education : A Survey
Wooten, Jadrian - 2020
The literature on active learning and engaging pedagogy has grown since the turn of the century when William Becker challenged the economics education community to be “sexier” in order to attract more majors. While the effectiveness of teaching methods has been understudied, the available...
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Teaching Economics with Breaking Bad
Muchiri, Steve - 2020
. (2016) find that current students still rank the show among their favorites. Building on the work of Duncan et al. (2020 …
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Implementing Recorded Lectures : Education Production Function Analysis in Economics Online Courses
Byrd, Jennings - 2017
Instructor created recorded lectures were introduced to two principles of macroeconomics and two principles of microeconomics online courses to improve student outcomes. Using the education production function, both time spent and access were modeled using a first difference regression and...
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A Simple Way to Teach Regression
Froeb, Luke M. - 2021
This paper introduces a simple free web app that can teach regression to anyone who can point and click. Originally designed to teach Justice Department attorneys enough about regression so that they could cross examine rival experts, the app ``inverts'' the usual pedagogy: instead of showing...
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Competitive vs cumulative approach in teaching macroeconomics : some thoughts on recent popular textbooks
Carnevali, Emilio - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 301, pp. 161-171
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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Teaching Bundling Theory with Simple Geometry
Eckalbar, John - 2003
This paper shows how we might successfully introduce students in principles and intermediate microeconomic theory … surprising how much students can learn using only the tools of highschool geometry. Specifically, one can prove that with …
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Teaching Tools : Profit Maximization Problem
Hemenway, David; Kohlberg, Elon - 1998
This business problem for microeconomic students might be used as part of a problem set or as a take-home exam. It …
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Cooperation Versus Free-Riding in a Threshold Public Goods Setting : A Classroom Experiment
Marks, Melanie; Lehr, David; Brastow, Raymond T. - 2003
dominant strategy to free-ride, students must individually choose a level of cooperation (or free-riding) without the benefits … of communication. Students quickly discover problems of achieving an optimal social outcome, since free-riding can …
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The Educational Choice Anomaly for Principles Students : Using Ordinary Supply and Demand Rather than Indifference Curves
Graves, Philip E.; Sexton, Robert L. - 2010
The “surprise value” of many economic observations makes our discipline quite interesting for many students. One such … courses do not introduce this analytical technique. As a consequence, a result that many students find quite interesting is … curves; moreover, the exercise of doing so provides students with greater understanding of benefit/cost analysis as well as …
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