Community history units can provide a framework for elementary economics instruction. The DePaul Center for Economic Education developed a unit on Chicago's economic history. It includes strategies for collecting and organizing content, locating resource people, and developing materials. (AM)

Provides a detailed description of Eastern Michigan University's field experience course for home economics, including course development, organization, and administration; field placement; evaluation; and the pre-enrollment workshop. (SK)

Teachers' ideas for teaching elementary secondary school students about business, industry, economics, consumerism, and money management are presented. Class activities involving a toy automotive industry, a consumer convention, and a class "microtown" are described. (CJ)

A teaching unit on economics discusses basic background information, suggests classroom activities, and lists sources of instructional resources. Reproducible masters for two instructional levels are included and introduce economics law and basic financial management. (FG)

Proposes a content sequence for an economics education program that would take into account its three dimensions: consumer economics, career guidance, and citizenship education. (SK)

Reviews research which compares the effectiveness of programed instruction (PI) in economics to lecture-discussion techniques. Studies demonstrate that students using PI perform as well on examinations as students using the traditional method. There is also some evidence that students using PI retain their learning better. (AM)

Describes a study conducted to develop and evaluate a series of individualized modules for selected fundamental skills used in clothing construction. Results indicated that individualized instruction may be a more effective mode of instruction than lecture-demonstration, and that the instructional modules are effective instructional tools.…

This study examines the relationships between program size, the quality of entrants and of the faculty, the faculty's published research output, and the average quality of the Ph.D.s during the 1960s trained by the top thirty-six U.S. graduate programs in economics. (Author)

Suggests activities and nonfiction children's books that will help teach youngsters about making and saving money, paying taxes, and about our economic system. (SJL)

This article presents a report on student effort in economics courses based on time and the efficiency of its use. Information is presented on explanatory variables in each of the several learning models tested, theoretical basis for recent empirical student learning, definitions of student input, and the student-choice model proposed by Richard…

Discusses relationships among teaching, research output, financing, and academic achievement at large universities. Findings and recommendations for improvement in teaching and research are discussed. (Author/DB)

Describes a learning activity intended to introduce students in fourth-grade social studies classes to basic business and consumer economics practices. The activity involves forming groups of business partners, deciding on a type of business to set up, deciding how to obtain land and set up a store, creating a money system, advertising, arranging…

Describes the organization and work of the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education, the policymaking body sponsored by the national graduate honorary business education fraternity and two national business education organizations. Reexamines the Commission's purposes and plans and lists its publications. (MF)

Describes elementary level simulation resulting in products which participants sell to fellow students. The project includes basic lessons in economics, forming a corporation, applying for and receiving a loan, shopping trips, production, advertising, and market analysis. (KC)

Studies the extent to which there is a strong market in the business world for students who have majored in economics in their undergraduate years. Employment trends are discussed with regard to business and with regard to teaching positions in the field of economics. (DB)