students in two ways. The “payoff” in the game involves the possibility of students earning a small number of extra points …. Also, we find that presenting experimental results to students enhances their interest in the material. For example, we … find evidence that female students are less likely to “defect” than are male students, and that international students are …

problem set effects for. Graded problem sets raised the average students' exam performance enough to increase their course GPA … by one-third of a letter grade. Hardworking, scholastically below-average students' receive additional academic …

used to assess students' understanding of economics principles and for research into teaching methods. In this article, we … extremely low — more than 70 percent of the students who normed the TUCE post-tests would have earned a D or F on these tests …. Second, students' understanding has declined substantially — the proportion of students who would have earned a D or F has …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There is much debate as to why economics students display more self-interested behavior than other students: whether … homo economicus self-select into economics or students are instead “indoctrinated” by economics learning, and whether these … questions we show that, compared to students in other majors, econ students report being: (i) more self-interested (in …