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Blount, Leanne A.; Blackburn, Richard A. R. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2019
Picture boards as a visual support aid for in-lab demonstrator briefings were deployed for a single experiment in both the first and second year undergraduate practical classes. The boards are easy to create and provide an alternative, more accessible and 'presentation friendly' perspective of the laboratory manual associated with an experiment.…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Science Experiments, College Instruction, Science Instruction
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Bennato, Anna Rita; Gourlay, Adrian; Wilson, Chris M. – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
Bounded rationality is a key concept with implications across all areas of economics. To help students better understand the nature, causes and forms of bounded rationality in individual choice, the authors present a flexible classroom experiment. Beyond providing students with some first-hand evidence of bounded rationality, the experiment shows…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Microeconomics, Educational Experiments, Class Activities
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Johnson, Paul; Staveley-O'Carroll, James – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
In this article, the authors describe a classroom experiment on exchange rates appropriate for undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, international economics, and money and banking. Student teams compete by managing virtual portfolios of six foreign currencies over a period of several weeks. Trading requires a few minutes in class. Students gain…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Undergraduate Students, Class Activities, Educational Experiments
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Barseghyan, Gayane; Grigoryan, Aram – Journal of Economic Education, 2019
The authors develop a two-stage classroom experiment to illustrate convergence to long-run equilibrium in a market where price-taking firms are capacity-constrained. Once equilibrium in the first stage is established, capacity constraints are introduced by imposing discontinuities in the fixed costs of several firms. The experiment demonstrates…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Experiments, Class Activities, Microeconomics
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Wang, Lei; Zhen, Ziqi; Wo, Tianyu; Jiang, Bo; Sun, Hailong; Long, Xiang – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: The design of an operating system (OS) experiment course with a gentle learning curve is proposed and a scalable OS experiment platform supporting learning behavior analysis is presented. Background: In the teaching practice of the OS experiment course, several problems were faced. First, the learning curve for the students is too…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Student Behavior, Feedback (Response), Difficulty Level
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Aguiló, Paula; Sard, Maria; Tugores, Maria – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
In this article, the authors describe a classroom experiment aimed at familiarizing students with different types of price discrimination (first-, second-, and third-degree price discrimination). During the experiment, the students were asked to decide what tariffs to set as monopolists for each of the price discrimination scenarios under…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Experiments, Class Activities, Microeconomics
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McPheron, Benjamin D.; Thangaraj, Charles V.; Thomas, Charles R. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2017
Laboratory courses can be difficult to fit into an engineering program at a liberal arts-focused university, which requires students to be exposed to appropriate breadth, as well as sufficient depth in their engineering education. One possible solution to this issue is to integrate laboratory exercises with lecture in a "studio" format,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Blended Learning, Class Activities, Homework