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Anna Cartwright; Edward Cartwright – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
In this article, the authors analyze data accumulated over 10+ years of teaching market interaction using a simple classroom experiment. The experiment is designed to teach first-year undergraduate students the basics of supply and demand and market efficiency. In total, they analyze data from 85 teaching sessions and 243 individual markets. They…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Marketing, Supply and Demand, Educational Experiments
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Paul T. von Hippel – Education Next, 2024
In a 1984 essay, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago, asserted that tutoring offered "the best learning conditions we can devise" and that tutors could raise student achievement by two full standard deviations--or, in statistical parlance, two "sigmas." The influence of Bloom's two-sigma…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Educational Experiments, Tests
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Karen Zwanch; Brooke Mullins – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
To understand the ways that manipulatives might support changes in students' reasoning about algebraic generalizations, a constructivist teaching experiment was conducted with two sixth-grade students. The students interpreted numerical situations with units of one and could construct units of units in mental activity. Initially, the students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Algebra
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Sumalatha Peddi; Jacob R. Franklin; C. Scott Hartley – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Chemical reactions that mimic the function of ATP hydrolysis in biochemistry are of current interest in nonequilibrium systems chemistry. The formation of transient bonds from these reactions can drive molecular machines or generate materials with time-dependent properties. While the behavior of these systems can be complicated, the underlying…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Biochemistry, Undergraduate Students
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Danielle DeVasto; Zsuzsanna Palmer – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
The public release of ChatGPT in 2022 ushered in a new era, affirming the present reality of AI-assisted writing and the critical role business instructors play in preparing students. This study presents the results of a pedagogical experiment. Specifically, it evaluates strategies for integrating and teaching about AI in the business…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Digital Literacy, Artificial Intelligence, Business Administration Education