obtained by students in intermediate macroeconomics at Massey University over the 2000-2011 period. Basic probability concepts … are estimated. The information is expected to help students plan their studies more effectively and increase their … calculating proxy final examination marks for students who either miss or write the final examination under extenuating …

understand the subject: (1) a grading exercise to bring the topic closer to students' lives; (2) a Keynesian and an optimal …

undergraduate level. A common concern is the non-attendance at lectures of unmotivated (conscript) students. This paper presents the … course. The results obtained, using an econometric model, suggest that what students do outside of lectures is equally, or …

. Students on the other hand think primarily in terms of money prices and tend to think of higher productivity solely in terms of … benefit to students in internalizing the concept of comparative advantage …

to economics training improves students' analytical skills and problem-solving abilities. We rely on Frederick's (2005 …-economics classes. Our main result shows that students in economics classes improve their analytical skills during the semester by …

methods. After students performed poorly during the initial course period, and engagement and attendance was subpar, it was … discovered that most students, though young, were deeply affected by, and emotionally invested in, the financial crisis that …. Therefore, the class was flipped to teach to the dominant macroeconomic event in students' lives—the financial crisis. The …

third year students were chosen as respondents. A very large number of students indicated remembering a bit or some of the … grouping of economic concepts that were retained by the students. The principal component analysis method and orthogonal … significance of the chosen characteristics to the students' degree of retention of the indicated concepts though the model fit on …

primed college students either for high performance or low performance in a classroom environment. Multiple groups of … students (n=306) from four colleges — one flagship state university (R2), two state universities (M1), and a community college … Napoleon Dynamite or Bluto from Animal House (low performance). Students then watched videos of economics lectures in a …