The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2013 proceedings: (1) Teaching About Asia in a Social Science Education Program (Cyndi Mottola Poole and Joshua L. Kenna); (2) Teaching Students about…

Interest in the relationship between student characteristics and interests and economics grades led to the administration of a questionnaire to 565 students enrolled in principles of economics classes. The students who completed the questionnaire were among 1,000 students in 27 sections of macro and micro principles courses at Southeast Missouri…

Research results show that there is little loss in student productivity when changing from small lecture classes to large sections in principles of economics courses. A large lecture section of a college level principles of economics course with undergraduate tutors providing personal assistance to students was compared with six classes of 35 to…

Secondary students who read an economics lesson silently scored significantly higher than students who received an oral presentation of the lesson. A significant interaction between lesson organization and student ability level indicated that highly organized economics lessons increase student learning under certain ability level conditions.…

In 1979 a national norming of the new Basic Economics Test (BET) was conducted. This data made it possible to assess the cognitive impact of "Trade-Offs," a series of 15 20-minute color television film programs in economics education designed for children nine to 13 years old. (Author/AM)

A study was undertaken with the view that economic education is a continuing process and that development of personal economic understanding is a crucial part of business and economic courses in 2-year colleges. It compared personal economic understanding achieved by freshmen and sophomores who completed courses entitled Introduction to Business,…

An investigation of effects of concurrent study of other subjects on student performance on the New Zealand Universities Bursaries examination found study of English carried no benefit, study of economics offered little practical benefit, and the effect of mathematics could not be measured. Study of statistics alone, without economics, had a…

Explores the effectiveness of an alternative grading scheme for college economics. This method consists of giving frequent homework but only grading one or two problems from each assignment. Initial studies suggest that selective grading has little or no adverse effect on the quality of the students' coursework. (MJP)

Describes and evaluates a package of measures designed to introduce a collaborative problem-solving (CPS) approach to learning tutorials of a second-year university macroeconomics subject. Presents findings related to the influence of CPS on tutors' teaching experiences, students' attitudes attendance and hours of study, and academic achievement.…

Most studies of the determinants of understanding in economics focus on performance in a single course or standardized exam. Taking advantage of a large data set available at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), the authors examined the performance of economics majors over an entire curriculum. They found that gender was not a significant predictor of…

Changes in a Home Economics curriculum at Lehman College of the City University of New York from 1979-1988 are examined, and a line of inquiry first reported in 1983 is continued. A secondary, feminist analysis of the earlier data, combined with the current data, discloses the extent to which the patriarchal academy will go to attack the…

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that relatively field independent students will perform at a significantly higher level than relatively field dependent students in college-level, introductory economics courses. Previous studies focused on comparative pedagogies, or an examination of the student variables of gender, ability,…

This document discusses the author's solution to students' demands for smaller, more individual classes vs. administrative pressure, forced by enrollment and financial demands, for larger classes. In the 1970 fall semester at Cypress College (California) 150 students participated in an experiment in which an economics 1A class size was increased…

Develops a model to explain relationships among student effort, learning, and course evaluation in college level economics courses. Specifically, the model considers student allocation of effort to various courses, curricular choices open to students, and information concerning course characteristics. (Author/DB)

Describes a computer-assisted instructional course in economics at the University of Illinois. The course employed the PLATO system, which makes use of a display panel and a typewriter-like keyset which enables students to communicate with the computer. Results of a study management system indicated that use of the PLATO system did facilitate…