Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cardell, N. Scott
• Fort, Rodney
• Joerding, Wayne
• Inaba, Fred
• Lamoreaux, David
• Rosenman, Robert
• Stromsdorfer, Ernst
• Bartlett, Robin

Titel

Laboratory-Based Experimental and Demonstration Initiatives in Teaching Undergraduate Economics

Ist Teil von

• The American economic review, 1996-05, Vol.86 (2), p.454-459

Ort / Verlag

Menasha, Wis: American Economic Association

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The conventional lecture-discussion format may be the least effective way to teach economics. Rather, the most effective teaching method may be as a laboratory science. Two efforts to adapt economic instruction to a laboratory format are reported on. The purpose of adapting the lecture-laboratory format to economics is to permit a more active learning environment in which students can be meaningfully engaged by the material, with other students, and with the instructor. The first effort is a demonstration project conducted at Denison University for majors in economics beginning in 1988. The second, beginning in 1993, is a true experiment conducted at Washington State University for all students taking introductory micro- and macroeconomics.