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Direct linkBrückner, Sebastian; Förster, Manuel; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Walstad, William B. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The assessment of university students' economic knowledge has become an increasingly important research area within and across countries. Particularly, the different influences of prior education, native language, and gender as some of the main prerequisites on students' economic knowledge have been highlighted since long. However, the findings…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Knowledge Level, Native Language
Peer reviewedWalstad, William B.; Watts, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 2005
In Australia, the authors learned it is common to ask one or more conference participants to summarize and assess the conference in a final "closing" session. They found the experience of serving as "closers" strangely similar to what students are asked to do in providing an overall assessment of a course or instructor at the…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Conferences, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics
Peer reviewedKennedy, Peter; Walstad, William B. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1997
The consequences in terms of misclassifications of students that would occur by replacing the constructed-response portion of the Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in economics with more multiple-choice items were studied. The 1991 AP examinations in micro- and macroeconomics were used. Computer simulation found that a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Classification, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Simulation, Constructed Response
