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Marcal, Leah – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2019
Faced with shrinking state funds and pressure to raise graduation rates, California State University, Northridge piloted an early alert system in courses with high failure rates. One section of introductory microeconomics was selected for participation in the campus pilot. The early alert system is intended to flag at-risk students and provide…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, At Risk Students, Academic Failure, Identification
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Marcal, Leah – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2018
Faced with shrinking state funds, rising student demand, high failure rates, and racial and ethnic achievement gaps, the introductory microeconomics course became a bottleneck for business students at California State University, Northridge. The Economics Department responded with the creation of a flipped, introductory microeconomics course where…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Microeconomics, Homework, Video Technology
Baird, Matthew David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
I study three separate questions in this dissertation. In Chapter 1, I develop and estimate a structural dynamic model of occupation and job choice to test hypotheses of the importance of wages and non-wages and learning in occupational transitions, and find that wages are approximately 3 times as important as non-wage benefits in decisions and…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Economics, Models, Career Choice
Schalin, Jay – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (NJ1), 2010
Does investing taxpayer money in higher education lead to major payoffs in economic growth? State legislators and policy makers say yes. They routinely advocate massive appropriations for university education and research, even in poor economic times, on the grounds that taxpayers will be rewarded many times over. The investment of federal funds…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, State Aid, Financial Support
Moberg, Eric M. – Online Submission, 2009
The following program description, literature review, and theoretical bases demonstrate the andragogical soundness of the two projects and a club of the Monterey Adult Transitions Program. The Bistro Project began as a suggestion of an Associate Superintendent, who ran a similar project in the Boston area. The Greenhouse Project began as a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Adult Education, Program Descriptions, Andragogy
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Gratton-Lavoie, Chiara; Stanley, Denise – Journal of Economic Education, 2009
How do students enrolled in online courses perform relative to those who choose a more traditional classroom environment? What student characteristics help explain differences in student academic achievement in the two modes of instruction? What factors affect the students' choice of instruction mode? The authors address these questions in…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Online Courses, Introductory Courses, Economics Education
Wat, Albert – Pre-K Now, 2007
The momentum behind high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten is growing dramatically across the country--in families, in communities, and in the halls of academia and government. Thanks to this strong wave of support, state spending on pre-k increased from $2.4 billion to $4.2 billion nationwide between 2002 and 2007. This investment is built upon…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Elementary Secondary Education