Just as backwards design starts with course learning objectives before planning assessments, content and teaching activities, narrative engagement by design imagines how to build engagement into the foundation of course structure and content, not just into teaching and learning activities. This...

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...

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...