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Ruth Breeze; Hanne Roothooft; Marcel Meyer – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Learning to take effective notes is particularly difficult for non-English-native university students enrolled on English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. However, time and cost constraints mean that many universities provide no support in English for academic purposes or academic skills. One solution to this problem would be to work closely with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Notetaking, Business Administration Education, Economics Education
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Dorji, Tshewang – Online Submission, 2021
The quasi-experimental study examines the effect of the Problem-based Learning (PBL) teaching strategy on one higher secondary school student's academic achievement under Thimphu Thromde, Bhutan. The student participants were selected through non-probability convenient sampling techniques. All students of XI Arts (N=30) and XI Commerce (N=38)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Secondary School Students, Grade 11
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Josephson, Anna; DeBoer, Larry; Nelson, Dave; Zissimopoulos, Angelika – Journal of Economic Education, 2019
Contemporary pedagogy encourages instructors to move away from memorization to teaching the ability to "do economics." In such an environment, students are taught to apply knowledge of economic measurement, the economic model, and economic policy to analyze current events and policies. In this article, the authors build on existing…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Macroeconomics, Class Activities
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Lai, Ting-Ling; Lin, Fang Ting; Yueh, Hsiu-Ping – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of team-based flipped learning classes on students' learning achievement and motivation. Eighty-two students in two economics classes at a vocational high school participated in the study. This study adopted a pre-test and post-test quasi-experiment design with two teaching approaches…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teamwork, Vocational High Schools, Economics Education
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Roberts, David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article is concerned with student engagement and understanding in large group teaching in Higher Education (HE). Specifically, it is concerned with the application of Multimedia Learning (MML) methods in Politics, History, International Relations, Sociology, Social Work, and Business and Economics teaching that privilege the use of images to…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Multimedia Instruction
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Green, Alan – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
Pedagogical research shows that teaching methods other than traditional lectures may result in better outcomes. However, lecture remains the dominant method in economics, likely due to high implementation costs of methods shown to be effective in the literature. In this article, the author shows significant benefits of using a teaching app for…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Electronic Learning, Audience Response Systems
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Méndez-Carbajo, Diego; Wolla, Scott A. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2019
This article studies the differences in student learning outcomes associated with changes in the format of online learning resources. We compare completion rates and degrees of student achievement across several economic education learning modules produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Initially designed as a long-form online learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Materials, Learning Modules, Outcomes of Education
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Muhammad, Amin Umar; Bala, Dauda; Ladu, Kolomi Mutah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study investigated the Effectiveness of Demonstration and Lecture Methods in Learning concepts in Economics among Secondary School Students in Borno state, Nigeria. Five objectives: to determine the effectiveness of demonstration method in learning economics concepts among secondary school students in Borno state, determine the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Demonstrations (Educational), Lecture Method
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Stratling, Rebecca – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Although learning theories suggest that repeat testing can be highly beneficial for students' retention and understanding of material, there is, so far, little guidance on how to implement repeat testing in higher education. This paper introduces one method for implementing a three-stage model of repeat testing via computer-aided formative…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Computer Assisted Testing, Repetition, Formative Evaluation
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Balaban, Rita A.; Gilleskie, Donna B.; Tran, Uyen – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
This research provides evidence that the flipped classroom instructional format increases student final exam performance, relative to the traditional instructional format, in a large lecture principles of economics course. The authors find that the flipped classroom directly improves performance by 0.2 to 0.7 standardized deviations, depending on…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Statistical Analysis, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Goffe, William L.; Kauper, David – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
For many years, surveys have shown that lecture is the dominant method for teaching principles of economics (Watts and Schaur 2011; Watts and Becker 2008; Becker and Watts 1996, 2001a, b). The authors confirm this and augment it by asking why principles instructors teach the way they do. The respondents, 340 principles instructors at the 2012…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Economics Education, Economics, Teaching Methods
Santicola, Craig F. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There is a lack of student learning and critical thinking skills in post-secondary macroeconomics courses. The literature indicates that the lack of learning outcomes can be attributed to the reliance on traditional lecture and the failure to adopt innovative instructional techniques. The purpose of this study was to investigate the student…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Macroeconomics, Critical Thinking, Learning
Malek, Ninos Pierre – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Economics education has been a topic of research interest to many economists. In addition, the philosophical and ethical content of economics and its role in economics education has been an issue of discussion. Chapter 1 of my dissertation addresses what topics should be ignored in a principles of microeconomics class, what the goal of the…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Economics Education, Microeconomics, Statistical Analysis
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Andreopoulos, Giuliana Campanelli; Panayides, Alexandros – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
Economics is usually perceived as a difficult subject among undergraduate students and the literature suggests that the student's problems with principles of economics are mainly related to the chalk and talk type of teaching, the simplicity of economic models, limited discussions on current economic issues, and on race, gender, and other types of…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Educational Principles, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses
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Alavi, Jafar; And Others – Journal of Education for Business, 1993
A control group of 31 received traditional microeconomics instruction; 20 experimentals viewed the Economics U$A telecourse with lecture, discussion, and textbook. Pre/posttest data demonstrated no significant differences in comprehension of content or in cognitive level, although the video group did do better in the area of implicit application.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Economics Education, Higher Education
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