A literacy-targeted approach to economic instruction draws on insights from cognitive science. It highlights that students process complex economic information by constructing and modifying schemas that represent economic material. Following this approach, we developed a set of instructional...

We evaluate the impact of a large‐scale teacher coaching program in Peru, a context with high teacher turnover, on teachers' pedagogical skills and student learning. Previous studies find that small‐scale coaching programs can improve teaching of reading and science in developing countries....

This qualitative study explores the complex landscape of entrepreneurship education by focusing on lecturer competency, entrepreneurship curriculum, and pedagogy. This study addresses critical gaps in the current literature by investigating key questions: ideal instructional approaches for...

This study compares two tools used to observe and assess how teachers support student learning: the LEGO Foundation's Engage tool, formerly PLAY, and the World Bank's Teach Primary tool. The goal was to evaluate their similarities and overlaps in their measurement of teaching practices. Nine...

Purpose - This research study aims to identify barriers to incorporating forensic accounting into accounting curricula in Jordanian universities. The study examines the differences in perspectives among various accounting education stakeholders, including students, educators and accounting and...

Purpose This paper aims to provide instructors with a hands-on engaging and experiential class activity designed to teach undergraduate and graduate students about different organizational structures in management courses. Through this exercise, students will be able to self-identify the...

Purpose Management educators often seek out innovative ways to introduce theories and concepts in such a way that students are more engaged and connected with the course material. A meme is an image juxtaposed with short text that elicits emotional responses from its readers and is now a staple...

This paper provides guidance for using AI to quickly and easily implement evidence-based teaching strategies that instructors can integrate into their teaching. We discuss five teaching strategies that have proven value but are hard to implement in practice due to time and effort constraints. We...

Participatory teaching methods have been shown to be more successful than traditional rote learning in high-income countries. It is, however, less clear if they can help address the learning crisis in low- and middle-income countries, where classes tend to be large and teachers have fewer...

Economics is permeated with value judgements, and removing them would be neither possible nor desirable. They are consequential, in the sense that they have a sizeable impact on economists’ output. Yet many economists may not even realise they are there. This paper surveys ways in which values...

Using three examples, this opinion piece argues that introductory economics can provide an effective context in which to introduce university students to interdisciplinary learning and thinking. The first example illustrates how input-process-output diagrams can be used to stimulate...

This meta-analysis considers the use of technology to facilitate learning in undergraduate economics courses. We ask what technologies have been adopted, who did the adopting, and how effectiveness was evaluated. A survey of 237 articles published between 2000 and 2020 demonstrates that while...

"This thoroughly revised second edition provides insightful learning exercises to help students develop their imaginative and creative abilities. It Illustrates the creative and practical dimensions of entrepreneurship, presenting ideas and time-tested techniques that contribute towards...

Slide-Deck Textbook and course materials (1290 pages) for the Leadership Course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, August/September 2021.This leadership course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression –...

This is a classroom activity using the free ESPN Fantasy Baseball platform to draft players and the Out of the Park software ($40) to simulate a baseball season. The activity enhances learning of economic concepts of marginal product and competitive balance. It also improves the data literacy...

Economic theories and tools provide only partial insight into the many complexities affecting various uses and flows of water. To usefully teach water economics, it is therefore necessary to understand and cooperate with other disciplines. Many economic concepts can be used to understand...

In a 2017 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) article titled “Can Philanthropy be Taught?” my colleagues and I presented evidence demonstrating that experiential philanthropy, as an innovative pedagogical practice in higher education, can be used to effectively increase student...

Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a European Business School we are able to isolate the role of self-selection...

The world is increasingly characterized by global and national disasters and crises. To cope with these, social cohesion is indispensable - and this in turn requires that young people are taught how to become responsible citizens. Strengthening students’ personal development and social...

Unter der Leitfrage "Wie lässt sich ökonomisches Denken fördern?" haben Wissenschaftler:innen und Studierende im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung Zugänge zum ökonomischen Denken diskutiert. Der Sammelband präsentiert die Ergebnisse dieser Diskussionen und ordnet sie in die aktuellen Debatten zur...

This Handbook for Literacy Lesson Planning is designed to be used as a resource for education stakeholders seeking to design evidence-aligned early grade literacy programs. It describes the different subskills involved in learning to read, outlines best classroom practices for each subskill, and...

This paper is the sixth and seventh of eight course readings for our leadership course.The intention of this one semester leadership course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we...

Unlike standard economics courses, there are limited resources available for instructors who are trained in the mainstream neoclassical paradigm. Many courses in this field are pitched at an advanced level for students pursuing graduate research, or they are pitched through the paradigms of...

As an interdisciplinary field, economics and ethics has been taught in many different ways, including in my experience teaching the course over many years. This paper describes the challenges teaching this subject involves and the strategy I ultimately adopted for doing so after trying different...