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Baehler, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the level of a student's performance based on incoming knowledge in an intermediate macroeconomic and microeconomic course at a major mid-western university. Analysis of student understanding of specific economic concepts was accessed through the Test of Understanding College Economics, 4th Edition (TUCE) (Walstad,Watts &…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Comprehension, Macroeconomics
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Bonetti, Shane; Smith, Ian – Scottish Educational Review, 1996
Administration of the Test of Understanding in College Economics to 79 British college freshmen before and after a required introductory economics course revealed that students with little prior exposure to economics typically did not achieve the knowledge level of more experienced students by course end. Results were not affected by intelligence,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Freshmen, Economics Education