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Alessandro Castagnetti; Derek Rury – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We administer a survey to study students' preferences for relative performance feedback in an introductory economics class. To do so, we elicit students' willingness to pay for/avoid learning their rank on a midterm exam. Our results show that 10% of students are willing to pay to avoid learning their rank. We also find that female students are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Feedback (Response), Economics Education
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1990
This unit, designed for grades 9-12, introduces students to economic concepts of international trade through the case of the international coffee industry in California and Brazil. The following concepts are among those examined: commodities, factors of production (human resources, capital resources, and environmental resources), imports and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Economics Education, Foreign Countries