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ERIC Number: EJ704791
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun-22
Pages: 11
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A May American Economic Review Papers Seminar and an Analytic Project for Advanced Undergraduates
Elliott, Catherine S.
Journal of Economic Education, v35 n3 p232 Sum 2004
The author describes two learning activities for teaching economics at the advanced undergraduate level: a May American Economic Review (AER) papers seminar and an analytic project. Both activities help students learn to "do economics." The May AER papers seminar promotes in-depth synthesis and interpretation on the basis of printed session papers of the American Economics Association's annual meetings. The seminar relies on four structured components: a session-choice process, an advance question and answer exercise, a seminar discourse strategy, and a critical impact paper. The analytic project requires independent formulation and solution of a problem. Components include a procedure to write the project report, an oral class presentation, a listener-response exercise, and feedback in two phases.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Seminars, Student Research, Economic Research, Economics Education, Advanced Students
Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Web site: http://www.heldref.org.
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Language: English
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