The authors examine concurrent enrollment programs (CEP) as an effective means of teaching college economics in high school. They describe the establishment of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships to set national standards for CEP. They also investigate the performance of...

The present report presents the methodological framework applied to define the benchmark on education for employability to be proposed to European Council in 2012. While the three first sections present the proposed indicator, the fourth section discusses the sensitivity of that indicator to a...

Die Kurzexpertise kritisiert das Gutachten der Wirtschaftsverbände „Ökonomische Bildung an allgemein bildenden Schulen“ (2010) als unter fachwissenschaftlichen, fachdidaktischen, pädagogischen und pragmatischen Aspekten unzureichend. Sie verlangt, ökonomische Fragen in gesellschaftliche,...

This article studies the impact that the use of classroom experiments in an economics course may have on student motivation for this subject. In general, two expressions for motivation are effort and persistence, and choice of tasks. We take a sample of pre-university students in the Netherlands...

The Advanced Placement (AP) economics education program serves thousands of high school students each year, many of whom receive college credit upon successful completion of an AP economics exam. The AP curriculum, and tests, are not explicitly tied to a set of economic learning objectives. In...

Students in economics classrooms are increasingly digital natives, raised in a culture of engagement, expression and learning through online interactions using technological devices. We have turned the concept of a ‘selfie’ into an instructional tool for students to demonstrate their...

John “Jack” Soper passed away on August 9, 2013. A prolific researcher who retired as the John J. Kahl Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at John Carroll University, Soper was a leading light in the field of economic education. His scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's played a very important role...

Education courses now involve homework assignments that require technology skill as well as domain knowledge. Yet there is little pedagogical and technological support for teaching “What” (statistical mean) while simultaneously teaching “How” (use the =average (Range) function in Excel)....

Economic educators interested in incorporating project-based learning can incorporate Econ Beats in their classrooms. Using student reported measures of learning we evaluate students' perception of the efficacy of Econ Beats, a project that requires students to remake popular music in to...