Analogies can simplify complex new material by relating it to ideas students already know. Making cross-disciplinary connections also makes the material more engaging, accessible and memorable. In this study, we perform a controlled empirical test to examine whether providing cross-discipline...

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...

In these pages I argue that economics has much to learn from recent advances in knowledge of how students approach learning. If we influence how students approach learning we can increase their conceptual growth and change. If we aside the administrative approach to teaching in favor of one that...

This study falls within economic oriented pedagogy and aims to make a classification of features specific for self-directed learning in economics. The methods used are meta-analytical, argumentative, logical, psychological, educational and economic. It can be concluded that self-directed...

In this paper we use a classroom exercise to reveal the main efficiency and equity aspects of the Tiebout hypothesis. We conduct and extend the exercise developed by Brouhle et al (2005) by including a second phase in which students have the opportunity to evaluate the implications of the...

This article explores the effectiveness of applying a new multidimensional graphical method to the teaching and learning of economics. In essence, the paper extends the significance of multi-dimensional graphs to study any economic phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective. The paper...

The integration of technology in the educational process is becoming increasingly important for improving the 21st century student's understanding and retention of academic material. Being able to readily apply the theory covered in class and to automatically receive immediate feedback is...

The author proposes to change the presentation order of short-run costs, a topic which constitutes a major hurdle for students in economics principles. By giving the leading role to the marginal variables over the total variables which can be practically ignored, the streamlined presentation...