This document focuses primarily on how classroom assessment activities can measure students' literacy skills as they progress along a learning trajectory towards reading fluently and with comprehension by the end of primary school grades. The document addresses considerations regarding the...

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...

Engaging teaching has emerged as a key approach to fostering children's socio-emotional and cognitive skills. This policy note draws on findings of a recent comparative study on the LEGO Foundation's Engage, formerly known as Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY)1, classroom observation tool,...

Seit der Bologna-Reform stehen die Qualitätssicherung und Professionalisierung der Hochschullehre verstärkt im wissenschaftlichen und politischen Diskurs. Der mit dem Paradigmenwechsel vom "Teaching to Learning" einhergehende Fokus auf die aktive Mitgestaltung des Lernprozesses durch...

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...

Entrepreneurship education research has a strong "output" focus on impact studies but pays much less attention to the "inside" or process perspective of the way entrepreneurship education occurs. In particular, the scattered previous entrepreneurship curriculum research has not managed to...

This paper examines the impact of substituting regular classroom programmes with online classes on students' academic performance. We compared the change in the delivery mechanism of preparatory courses for two consecutive Master of Business Administration (MBA) batches in one of the top...

This paper proposes the use of musical selections to enhance team-based learning (TBL) activities in economics education in the K-12 classroom. The author provides pre-designed lessons and templates that align with the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics. The approach builds on...

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...

Purpose: The purpose of our research is to show the point of view of the members of the Board concerning advantages, disadvantages and effectiveness of open ended questions used as a complement to closed response questionnaires.Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, we will describe a pilot...

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...

Feedback being information: The feedback is a set of information that the individual receives about his performance and results, showing him the mistakes he made, the amount of his progress, the amount of what he learned, and the suitability of his performance for the goal that should be...

This paper uses both a geometrical and mathematical analysis to explain monopolistic third-degree price discrimination, and it also shows how price discrimination affects society. A frequent policy question in the price discrimination literature is whether to allow third-degree price...

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...

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...