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International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics
Edited by Gail M. Hoyt and KimMarie McGoldrick
The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics provides a comprehensive resource for instructors and researchers in economics, both new and experienced. This wide-ranging collection is designed to enhance student learning by helping economic educators learn more about course content, pedagogic techniques, and the scholarship of the teaching enterprise.
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: A history of economic education
- Section A: Techniques
- Chapter 2: Case Use in Economics Instruction
- Chapter 3: Teaching with Context-Rich Problems
- Chapter 4: Using Cooperative Learning Exercises in Economics
- Chapter 5: Improving Classroom Discussion in Economics Courses
- Chapter 6: Let Experience be the Guide: Experiential Education in Economics
- Chapter 7: Classroom Experiments
- Chapter 8: Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Adapting a Physics Education Pedagogy for Use in the Economics Classroom
- Chapter 9: Using Just-in-Time Teaching to Promote Student Learning in Economics
- Chapter 10: Making the Large-Enrollment Course Interactive and Engaging
- Chapter 11: Teaching Economics Socratically
- Chapter 12: Writing for Learning in Economics
- Section B: Technology
- Chapter 13: Incorporating Media and Response Systems in the Economics Classroom
- Chapter 14: Distance Education: Course Development and Strategies for Success
- Chapter 15: Economics Blogs and Economic Education
- Section C: Assessment
- Chapter 16: Methods of Assessment in the College Economics Course
- Chapter 17: An Expected Proficiencies Approach to the Economics Major
- Section D: Contextual Techniques
- Chapter 18: Ethics and Critical Thinking
- Chapter 19: Feminist Pedagogy and Economics
- Chapter 20: Integrating Race, Gender and Class
- Chapter 21: Economics and Literature: The Gains from Trade
- Chapter 22: The Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Economics
- Chapter 23: Pluralism in Economics Education
- Chapter 24: Threshold Concepts in Economics Education
- Section E: Elementary, Secondary Economic Education
- Chapter 25: Economic Education in American Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Chapter 26: Organizations Focused on Economic Education
- Section A: Principles Courses
- Chapter 27: The Purpose, Structure and Content of the Principles of Economics Course
- Chapter 28: The Principles of Economics Textbook: Content Coverage and Usage
- Section B: Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School
- Chapter 29: Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School
- Section C: Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics
- Chapter 30: Research on the Effectiveness of Non-Traditional Pedagogies
- Chapter 31: Factors Influencing Performance in Economics: Graphs and Quantitative Usage
- Chapter 32: Student Characteristics, Behavior, and Performance in Economics Classes
- Chapter 33: Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics: Class and Instructor Characteristics
- Section D: What Every Economist Should Know about the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of Literature
- Chapter 34: What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of the Literature
- Section E: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Chapter 35: Data Resources and Econometric Techniques
- Chapter 36: Lessons from Physics Education Research: Lessons for Economics Education
- Chapter 37: Journals and Beyond: Publishing Economics Education Research
- Chapter 38: Less is More: The Perils of Trying to Cover too Much in Microeconomic Principles
- Chapter 39: Macroeconomic Principles are Still Relevant and Still Important
- Chapter 40: Teaching Non-Majors
- Chapter 41: Intermediate Microeconomics
- Chapter 42: Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Chapter 43: Teaching Undergraduate Econometrics
- Chapter 44: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Antitrust Economics
- Chapter 45: The Economics of Education: Applying Economic Theory and Empirical Tools to Public Policy
- Chapter 46: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Teaching the Non-Major and Major Simultaneously
- Chapter 47: Teaching Experimental Economics: Reinforcing Paradigms and Bringing Research into the Undergraduate Classroom
- Chapter 48: Game Theory in a Liberal Arts Education
- Chapter 49: Teaching a Research-Inspired Course on Growth and Development
- Chapter 50: Teaching American Economic History
- Chapter 51: The Economic History of European Growth
- Chapter 52: Why and How to Teach the History of Economic Thought: Economics as Historically Produced Knowledge
- Chapter 53: Health Economics – Methods for a New Field
- Chapter 54: Teaching Undergraduate Industrial Organization Economics
- Chapter 55: Teaching International Finance, Adapting to Globalization
- Chapter 56: Teaching International Trade by Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
- Chapter 57: Building Human Capital in the Labor Economics Course
- Chapter 58: The Challenges and Pleasures of Teaching Law and Economics
- Chapter 59: Teaching Managerial Economics with Problems Instead of Models
- Chapter 60: Using Real-World Applications to Policy and Everyday Life to Teach Money and Banking
- Chapter 61: Teaching Political Economy to Undergraduate Students
- Chapter 62: Some Reflections on Teaching the Economics of Poverty
- Chapter 63: Public Economics
- Chapter 64: Sports Economics as Applied Microeconomics
- Chapter 65: Using Location, Agglomeration, and Policy Issues to Teach Urban Economics
- Chapter 66: Women and Men in the Economy
- Section A: Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources
- Chapter 67: Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources
- Section B: Undergraduate Education
- Chapter 68: The Economics Major in the United States
- Chapter 69: Curricular and Co-curricular Aspects of the Economics Major at Highly Ranked Schools
- Section C: The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students
- Chapter 70: The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students
- Section D: International Economic Education
- Chapter 71: Supporting Economics Higher Education in the United Kingdom
- Chapter 72: Economics Education in Australia
- Chapter 73: Ordonomics and the Current State of Economic Education in Germany
- Section A: Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education
- Chapter 74: Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education
- Section B: An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond
- Chapter 75: Near and Far – An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond
- Chapter 76: Economics Teaching Workshops: Past, Present, and Future
- Index
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Chapter 70: The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students
Wendy A. Stock
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- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: A history of economic education
- Section A: Techniques
- Chapter 2: Case Use in Economics Instruction
- Chapter 3: Teaching with Context-Rich Problems
- Chapter 4: Using Cooperative Learning Exercises in Economics
- Chapter 5: Improving Classroom Discussion in Economics Courses
- Chapter 6: Let Experience be the Guide: Experiential Education in Economics
- Chapter 7: Classroom Experiments
- Chapter 8: Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Adapting a Physics Education Pedagogy for Use in the Economics Classroom
- Chapter 9: Using Just-in-Time Teaching to Promote Student Learning in Economics
- Chapter 10: Making the Large-Enrollment Course Interactive and Engaging
- Chapter 11: Teaching Economics Socratically
- Chapter 12: Writing for Learning in Economics
- Section B: Technology
- Chapter 13: Incorporating Media and Response Systems in the Economics Classroom
- Chapter 14: Distance Education: Course Development and Strategies for Success
- Chapter 15: Economics Blogs and Economic Education
- Section C: Assessment
- Chapter 16: Methods of Assessment in the College Economics Course
- Chapter 17: An Expected Proficiencies Approach to the Economics Major
- Section D: Contextual Techniques
- Chapter 18: Ethics and Critical Thinking
- Chapter 19: Feminist Pedagogy and Economics
- Chapter 20: Integrating Race, Gender and Class
- Chapter 21: Economics and Literature: The Gains from Trade
- Chapter 22: The Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Economics
- Chapter 23: Pluralism in Economics Education
- Chapter 24: Threshold Concepts in Economics Education
- Section E: Elementary, Secondary Economic Education
- Chapter 25: Economic Education in American Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Chapter 26: Organizations Focused on Economic Education
- Section A: Principles Courses
- Chapter 27: The Purpose, Structure and Content of the Principles of Economics Course
- Chapter 28: The Principles of Economics Textbook: Content Coverage and Usage
- Section B: Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School
- Chapter 29: Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School
- Section C: Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics
- Chapter 30: Research on the Effectiveness of Non-Traditional Pedagogies
- Chapter 31: Factors Influencing Performance in Economics: Graphs and Quantitative Usage
- Chapter 32: Student Characteristics, Behavior, and Performance in Economics Classes
- Chapter 33: Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics: Class and Instructor Characteristics
- Section D: What Every Economist Should Know about the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of Literature
- Chapter 34: What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of the Literature
- Section E: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Chapter 35: Data Resources and Econometric Techniques
- Chapter 36: Lessons from Physics Education Research: Lessons for Economics Education
- Chapter 37: Journals and Beyond: Publishing Economics Education Research
- Chapter 38: Less is More: The Perils of Trying to Cover too Much in Microeconomic Principles
- Chapter 39: Macroeconomic Principles are Still Relevant and Still Important
- Chapter 40: Teaching Non-Majors
- Chapter 41: Intermediate Microeconomics
- Chapter 42: Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Chapter 43: Teaching Undergraduate Econometrics
- Chapter 44: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Antitrust Economics
- Chapter 45: The Economics of Education: Applying Economic Theory and Empirical Tools to Public Policy
- Chapter 46: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Teaching the Non-Major and Major Simultaneously
- Chapter 47: Teaching Experimental Economics: Reinforcing Paradigms and Bringing Research into the Undergraduate Classroom
- Chapter 48: Game Theory in a Liberal Arts Education
- Chapter 49: Teaching a Research-Inspired Course on Growth and Development
- Chapter 50: Teaching American Economic History
- Chapter 51: The Economic History of European Growth
- Chapter 52: Why and How to Teach the History of Economic Thought: Economics as Historically Produced Knowledge
- Chapter 53: Health Economics – Methods for a New Field
- Chapter 54: Teaching Undergraduate Industrial Organization Economics
- Chapter 55: Teaching International Finance, Adapting to Globalization
- Chapter 56: Teaching International Trade by Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
- Chapter 57: Building Human Capital in the Labor Economics Course
- Chapter 58: The Challenges and Pleasures of Teaching Law and Economics
- Chapter 59: Teaching Managerial Economics with Problems Instead of Models
- Chapter 60: Using Real-World Applications to Policy and Everyday Life to Teach Money and Banking
- Chapter 61: Teaching Political Economy to Undergraduate Students
- Chapter 62: Some Reflections on Teaching the Economics of Poverty
- Chapter 63: Public Economics
- Chapter 64: Sports Economics as Applied Microeconomics
- Chapter 65: Using Location, Agglomeration, and Policy Issues to Teach Urban Economics
- Chapter 66: Women and Men in the Economy
- Section A: Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources
- Chapter 67: Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources
- Section B: Undergraduate Education
- Chapter 68: The Economics Major in the United States
- Chapter 69: Curricular and Co-curricular Aspects of the Economics Major at Highly Ranked Schools
- Section C: The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students
- Chapter 70: The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students
- Section D: International Economic Education
- Chapter 71: Supporting Economics Higher Education in the United Kingdom
- Chapter 72: Economics Education in Australia
- Chapter 73: Ordonomics and the Current State of Economic Education in Germany
- Section A: Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education
- Chapter 74: Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education
- Section B: An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond
- Chapter 75: Near and Far – An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond
- Chapter 76: Economics Teaching Workshops: Past, Present, and Future
- Index