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Watts, Michael – 1984
This study measured the effects of specified variables on student knowledge of economics before taking an economics course and the effects of an enlarged set of variables on knowledge gained from taking the course. The pretest included 5,300 students from 200 classes in 150 randomly selected Indiana schools. Missing data and missing students…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Economics Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Research