A Randomized Controlled Trial of Teaching Methods : Do Classroom Experiments improve Economic Education in High Schools?

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Sulser, Pascal

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Teaching Methods : Do Classroom Experiments improve Economic Education in High Schools?

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Datum

2013

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

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Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

We present results from a field experiments at Swiss high schools in which we compare the effectiveness of teaching methods in economics. We randomly assigned classes into an experimental and a conventional teaching group, or a control group that received no specific instruction. Both of our teaching treatments improve economic understanding considerably while effect sizes are almost identical. However, student ability crucially affects learning outcomes as more able students seem to benefit disproportionately from classroom experiments while weaker students lose out. Supplemental data indicates that our experimental treatment crowded out time for adequately discussing the subject, which may have limited less able students to generate a profound understanding. Furthermore there is no robust impact of economic training on social preferences, measured as both individual behavior in incentivized decisions or political opinions.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

Education of Economics, Classroom Experiments, Conventional Teaching, Field Experiments, Indoctrination

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ISO 690

EISENKOPF, Gerald, Pascal SULSER, 2013. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Teaching Methods : Do Classroom Experiments improve Economic Education in High Schools?

BibTex

@techreport{Eisenkopf2013Rando-25324,
  year={2013},
  series={Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut},
  title={A Randomized Controlled Trial of Teaching Methods : Do Classroom Experiments improve Economic Education in High Schools?},
  number={80},
  author={Eisenkopf, Gerald and Sulser, Pascal}
}

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