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Download full textBetsy Greenleaf Yarrison; Bruce Thompson – Honors in Practice, 2024
Since the 1980s, the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council has offered an annual conference on a host campus in late February. In 2020, MCHC slipped in the conference just before the apocalyptic arrival of COVID-19 in March. Because this conference is hugely popular statewide, we decided to organize it virtually in 2021. Our topic--"In…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedOxoby, Robert J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2001
Uses a simple classroom experiment to develop the economic model of monopoly. Introduces students to the nature of the monopoly problem and motivates them to think of the associated effects. Highlights the role of information and fairness ideals in determining economic outcomes. (RLH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economics Education, Educational Experiments, Educational Strategies
Tedford, John R. – 1977
A simple deterministic macroeconomic computer model was tested in a junior-senior level economic statistics course to demonstrate how and why some common errors arise when statistical estimation techniques are applied to economic relationships in empirical problematic situations. The computer model was treated as the true universe or real-world…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Economics Education, Educational Experiments
Elmendorf, John – 1975
This basic aim of this paper is to explore and describe how the results of experimentation are transmitted from the "laboratory" campus to other campuses and to propose ways of improving and expanding the dissemination process. Chapters cover: (1) New College as a model, (2) "new" elements in New College's program, (3) the…
Descriptors: Agencies, Educational Experiments, Educational Policy, Experimental Colleges
Ferren, Ann S.; White, Louise G. – 1976
An effort to create a successful faculty development program in political science is described. Intended as a program of faculty renewal which would affect the real lives and interests of faculty members, the program is based on the contributions of one education faculty member who joined and interacted intensely with a university political…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Faculty, College Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation
Dreier, William H.; Eastman, Robert D. – 1979
A two-day exchange between staff of the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls and the Burt Community School proved successful for all participants. The university team (professors, graduate students, and senior students who had completed student teaching) became responsible for the education of the Burt students while the Burt teachers and…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Experiments, Experiential Learning, Extension Education
Craig, Eleanor D.; And Others – 1977
The paper discusses an experiment in which regression analysis was used to examine predictors of information retention following a college economics course. It was hypothesized that students taught in small classes with self-instructional materials would place a higher value on basic economic concepts and retain these concepts longer than students…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Size, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
