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Mendez-Carbajo, Diego; Malakar, Lucy C. – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
In this article, the authors describe two independent efforts at "flipping" introductory economics courses employing econlowodown.org resources from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. From an instructor's perspective, it is relatively simple to locate the high-quality free resources available online and assign them to students. Their…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Educational Resources, Public Agencies
Achieving the Dream, 2021
Achieving the Dream (ATD) is one of 12 higher education and digital learning organizations that make up the Every Learner Everywhere (Every Learner) Network, whose mission is to help higher education institutions improve and ensure more equitable student outcomes through advances in digital learning, particularly among poverty-impacted, racially…
Descriptors: Courseware, Introductory Courses, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
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Rousu, Matthew C.; Corrigan, Jay R.; Harris, David; Hayter, Jill K.; Houser, Scott; Lafrancois, Becky A.; Onafowora, Olugbenga; Colson, Gregory; Hoffer, Adam – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
Using 641 principles of economics students across four universities, the authors examine whether providing monetary incentives in a prisoner's dilemma game enhances student learning as measured by a set of common exam questions. Subjects either play a two-player prisoner's dilemma game for real money, play the same game with no money at stake…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Incentives, Educational Experiments, College Students
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Spencer, George – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This study investigates the use of transfer guides to help students identify transferrable prerequisite credits for academic majors. Employing administrative data of students enrolled in Ohio community colleges, I examine the impact of these curricular roadmaps, called Transfer Assurance Guides (TAG), which were featured in reforms of the state's…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, College Credits, Majors (Students)
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Morse, George W. – Journal of Extension, 2011
More research is needed to help states evaluate Extension delivery model alternatives. Given funding trends, access to all programs requires regional systems with county offices. The traditional county model provides access to an office but only to some programs. While there will be many differences, only states with specialized educators can make…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Educational Finance, Access to Education, Counties
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Hoag, John H.; Browne, M. Neil – College Student Journal, 2009
An introductory course is the discipline's handshake; it is the greeting that either seals the deal or in varying degrees convinces the learner that this discipline has little usefulness. Given the huge stakes in forming a strategy for the introductory course, how should we structure the course? The argument in this paper is that we should…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Intellectual Disciplines, Thinking Skills, College Faculty
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Ghosh, Sucharita; Renna, Francesco – Journal of Economic Education, 2009
College instructors and students participated in a pilot project at the University of Akron to enhance student learning through the use of a common teaching pedagogy, peer instruction. The teaching pedagogy was supported by the use of technology, an electronic personal response system, which recorded student responses. The authors report their…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Pilot Projects
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Stock, Paul A.; Rader, William D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Investigated high school students' levels of economic understanding using the Test of Economic Literacy. Students' scores were analyzed and compared to national averages. The subjects students understood best were currency exchange, competition, and types of economic systems. The subjects they understood least were market failures, inflation, and…
Descriptors: Economics Education, High Schools, Knowledge Level
Ohio Council on Economic Education. – 1993
The K-12 Model Course of Study in Economics (MCSE) provides Ohio school district personnel with assistance in the development and implementation of economics courses of study for kindergarten through twelfth grade. The guide also offers information to help readers integrate economics into their curricula across disciplines. In addition to an…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, Economics
KEISER, MARJORIE; SANEHOLTZ, BETTY J. – 1964
DEMONSTRATION OF FOOD HANDLING TECHNIQUES WAS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE FOOD LABORATRY APPROACH IN TEACHING HOME ECONOMICS. THEREFORE, INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION (ITV) COULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF CLASSES TOO LARGE TO USE FOOD LABORATORIES. ACCORDINGLY, THE HOME ECONOMICS AND TELEVISION DEPARTMENTS OF A UNIVERSITY COMBINED TO HELP THE LECTURER-DEMONSTRATOR…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Television, Foods Instruction, Home Economics Education
WINEFORDNER, DAVID – 1965
A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO ALL TENTH AND ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS IN 142 SCHOOLS (44,429 STUDENTS) FOR THE 1964-65 SURVEY. THE PURPOSE OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS TO OBTAIN AN ESTIMATE OF (1) STUDENTS' PLANS FOR EMPLOYMENT OR FURTHER SCHOOLING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, (2) VOCATIONS WHICH STUDENTS THINK THEY MIGHT LIKE TO ENTER, AND (3) THE NUMBER…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grade 11, High School Students, Home Economics Education
Hopley, Virginia – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2003
Financial education is essential, yet on average, adults scored 57 percent on basic economic knowledge, according to the "Standards in Economics Survey" conducted in 1999 for the National Council on Economic Education. The Community Affairs Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland surveyed financial institutions and community…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economics Education, Banking, Community Development
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van't Hooft, Mark; Kelly, Jan – Social Education, 2004
Imagine a classroom where students beam their assignments to the teacher instead of handing them in. Imagine a classroom where technology is ubiquitous yet nearly invisible. Imagine a classroom where all students simultaneously work together using technology. This is the reality for students in the fifth grade classroom of Jan Kelly, an elementary…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Grade 5, Social Studies, Economics Education
Black, Mabel – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1975
The development of adult programs of family life education in Ohio from the 1930s to the present is recounted. Approximately half the article describes a series of 12 half-hour television programs which present family life education in a soap opera format, and the research from which it was developed. (AJ)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Commercial Television, Disadvantaged
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Elementary and Secondary Education. – 1983
One of a series of implementation documents prepared in conjunction with the revised minimum standards adopted in 1983 by the Ohio State Board of Education, this document suggests ways to develop economic education programs in Ohio high schools and identifies issues certain to be encountered in developing such a program. Each of the five sections…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Economics Education, High Schools
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