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Direct linkTisha L. N. Emerson; KimMarie McGoldrick – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Using data from 11 institutions, the authors investigate enrollments in intermediate microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students and follow the retake behavior of unsuccessful students. Successful students are significantly different from unsuccessful ones, and unsuccessful students differ by type…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Academic Persistence
McElhinney, Kerry R.; Pershing, James A. – 1989
The lack of economics literacy is a serious problem in the United States. Today, public school students are taught little if any economics and score very poorly on economics literacy tests, with the average test score being 40 percent. This absence of economic understanding hurts the economy in the following ways: (1) economically illiterate…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Citizenship Education, Consumer Education, Critical Thinking
