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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study described in this report included 128 high school economics teachers from 106 schools in Arizona and California, half of whom were randomly assigned to the "Problem Based Economics Instruction" condition and half of whom were randomly assigned to the comparison condition. High levels of teacher attrition occurred after…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Problem Based Learning, Instructional Materials, Instructional Effectiveness
Bushati, Dolore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the level of economics knowledge, overall and on specific economic concepts after Albanian 11th grade and 12th grade students completed their required economics course and investigated how economics knowledge differed by student and teacher characteristics. There were 1,509 students who participated in this research from 12…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Teacher Characteristics, Economics Education, Economics
Weiner, David; Mamacos, Peter; Katz, Sherman E.; Rothenberg, Laurence E. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
The tremendous growth of international trade over the past several decades has both affected and been affected by of globalization. The volume of world trade since 1950 has increased twenty-folds-from $320 billion to $6.8 trillion, which exceeds expansion in the rate of production by three times. As a result, consumers around the world now enjoy a…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Public Agencies, Economic Progress, International Trade
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Cutcher, Cortney L., Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 5900 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Student Attitudes, Economics Education