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Direct linkLin, Tin-Chun – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author examined whether game play improves students' comprehension, attendance, and exam performance. The author designed three games; 120 students in introductory microeconomics classes participated in these experiments. The evidence showed that game play enhances students' attendance, comprehension, and exam performance. It also showed that…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Microeconomics, Teaching Methods, Games
Dendir, Seife – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
The author analyzes differences in student performance in an economics course offered face to face (F2F) and online over a period of four semesters at a comprehensive public university. Apart from mode of delivery, the characteristics of the course stayed nearly identical throughout. Exam and homework assignment scores are used as measures of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Academic Achievement
Smith, Ben O.; Wagner, Jamie – Journal of Economic Education, 2018
In 2016, Walstad and Wagner developed a procedure to split pre-test and post-test responses into four learning types: positive, negative, retained, and zero learning. This disaggregation is not only useful in academic studies; but also provides valuable insight to the practitioner: an instructor would take different mitigating actions in response…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Value Added Models, Guessing (Tests), Monte Carlo Methods
Dendir, Seife – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The author uses data from two Principles of Microeconomics courses to examine differences in characteristics and performance of online versus face-to-face students. The analysis indicates that even in a traditional institution, the two delivery modes may be serving students with distinctly different backgrounds and characteristics. In terms of…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Characteristics, Online Courses, Intermode Differences
Emerson, Tisha L. N.; English, Linda K.; McGoldrick, KimMarie – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
In this study, the authors employed a quasi-experimental research design to examine the efficacy of a cooperative learning pedagogy (i.e., think-pair-share exercises) integrated into sections of microeconomic principles. Materials, exercises, and assessment instruments for all study sections are identical except for the nature of the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Quasiexperimental Design, Microeconomics, Educational Principles
Download full textByun, Chong Hyun Christie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The importance of active learning in the classroom has been well established in the field of Economic education. This paper examines the connection between active learning and performance outcomes in an Economics 101 course. Students participated in single play simultaneous move game with a clear dominant strategy, modeled after the Prisoner's…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Correlation, Performance Based Assessment
