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Mary Lopez; Kirsten Wandschneider – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The authors of this article demonstrate best practices for creating belonging in economics, which allows diverse students to feel respected and accepted within the discipline. Opportunities to connect with economics allow students to understand and be empowered by the value they add to the classroom. The suggested practices thus include providing…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Beginning Teachers
Gary A. Hoover; Ebonya Washington – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Economics has a well-documented problem with diversity. Literacy-targeted (LT) courses designed for a broader spectrum of students have the potential to help address the underrepresentation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the discipline. The authors of this article explore how, by using the LT approach, introductory economics instructors…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Economics Education, Diversity, Inclusion
William L. Goffe; Scott A. Wolla – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
This article's authors describe both the advantages of a literacy-targeted introductory course and how it might be taught by employing evidence-based teaching practices developed by cognitive scientists to maximize learning. This pairing of literacy-focused content with evidence-based pedagogy is intended to enhance student learning while focusing…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Cognitive Science, Educational Strategies
Wendy A. Stock – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The author of this article summarizes which, when, where, and how students take introductory economics. Among students who began college in 2012, 74 percent never took economics, up from 62 percent in 2004. Fifteen percent of beginning college students in 2012 took "some economics," and 12 percent were "one-and-done" students.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Course Selection (Students), Introductory Courses, Economics
Mark Maier; Phil Ruder – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The literacy-targeted (LT) introductory economics course seeks to reduce the quantity of economic concepts under study and increase students' ability to apply those concepts to improve their own decisions and to make sense of economic news. The assessment strategy of the course must target students' ability to transfer their conceptual knowledge…
Descriptors: Literacy, Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Formative Evaluation
Cortés, Darwin; Mantilla, César; Prada, Laura – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The authors adapted a lab-in-the-field experiment emulating the dynamic extraction of a fishery to create a Web-based classroom experiment. The game includes a multi-player version analogous to an open-access problem and a single-player version analogous to the social planner problem. This game is helpful in introductory microeconomics courses to…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elective Courses, Animal Husbandry
Strenio, Jacqueline – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
Cooperative learning is associated with a variety of potential benefits to students, including better comprehension and retention, improved perceptions and attitudes, and increased openness to diversity. Yet, there is limited evidence or instruction on cooperative learning activities in asynchronous online classrooms, an increasingly common course…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication
Horowitz, Basak – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The author of this article discusses a cooperative learning exercise designed for introductory macroeconomics that was completed by 44 groups of three or four students during the spring 2021, fall 2021, and spring 2022 semesters at a private U.S. liberal arts college. The exercise aims to foster an active learning community where students…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Diversity, Inclusion
Wilson, Janine L. F. – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The economics profession has been working to become more open, inclusive, and welcoming. The introductory principles of economics courses provide a unique opportunity to teach students of the wider university the value of the field of economics. It is in this setting that instructors' interactions with students show them a welcoming and diverse…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Microeconomics, Undergraduate Students
Ersal Kiziler, Eylem – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
Misconceptions hinder optimal student learning. They need to be addressed explicitly and formally to achieve effective teaching of economics. The author of this article outlines an activity that is designed to address misconceptions about "others" using a backward course design framework. Fink's significant learning categories,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Macroeconomics, Economics Education, Misconceptions
Klis, Anna A. – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
Environmental justice is an important topic that can be better understood by using the tools of economics. The author of this article describes a data integration exercise that connects data available through government portals: the Environmental Protection Agency's "Superfund Sites Where You Live" interactive map, data on Net Present…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Introductory Courses, Correlation, Conservation (Environment)
Mahoney, Melissa H.; Mathews, Leah G.; Thomas, Audrey E. – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
The authors of this article describe a unique approach to economics education in which contemplative deep listening practices were applied to Bruce Springsteen's music in order to introduce basic economic concepts to incoming university students. The course "Springsteen-omics: Economics through the Songs of Bruce Springsteen" shifted the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Singing, Introductory Courses
Espey, Molly – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Peer evaluations for nearly 1,650 students in three different team-based learning economics courses are analyzed for evidence of gender differences in ratings given and received. The analysis controls for general academic skills and economics-specific skills as well as other individual and team characteristics. Females earn higher evaluations than…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Economics, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork
Siegfried, John; Colander, David – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Teaching students to use critical thinking skills is a popular goal of many economics courses. But what does "critical thinking" really mean, and how is it implemented? This article considers various interpretations of "critical thinking" and distinguishes "big-think" from "little-think" critical thinking,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Critical Thinking, Textbooks
Mankiw, N. Gregory – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
The author has long thought that the role of instructors in the introductory economics classroom is to serve as ambassadors for the economic profession. They are there not to present their own views of economics. They should, instead, transcend their idiosyncrasies and represent the broad consensus of professional economists. The job of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, College Faculty, Economics Education, Introductory Courses