An assessment of teaching economics with The Simpsons

This paper aims to quantify the effectiveness of teaching economics with video exemplars, mainly the US TV show The Simpsons. We regress students' exam scores on their performance on Simpsons and non-Simpsons pop quizzes. After controlling for students' quality difference and exam content, our results indicate that the performance of Simpsons' pop quizzes has a greater impact on student learning, particularly for grade C, D and F students.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Chu, Shiou-Yen
Published in:	International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. - Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, ISSN 1757-5648. - Vol. 5.2014, 2, p. 180-196
Publisher:	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Subject:	economics education \| pop quiz \| least squares \| teaching economics \| video exemplars \| The Simpsons \| exam scores \| student learning \| higher education

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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