Contents
- Assessment and feedback
- Assessment and monitoring
- Classroom practice and student engagement
- Curriculum and content
- Educational resources
- Employability and entrepreneurship
- Evaluation
- Experiments, games and role-play
- HE sector
- Maths support
- Online and distance learning
- Pre-university
- Public understanding
- Publishing research
- Research and teaching
- Simulations
- Student learning
- Student support
Downloads
- View the conference programme (PDF)
- The full list of abstracts is available to download here. This includes all papers, posters and interactive workshops presented at the 2015 Developments in Economics Education conference.
Assessment and feedback
Does formative feedback help or hinder students? An empirical investigation
Presentation by Carlos Cortinhas (University of Exeter)
How original is your work? Cheating and plagiarism
Presentation by Carlos Cortinhas (University of Exeter)
An Analysis of Positive Learning in Economics Courses
Presentation by William Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) & Jamie Wagner (University of Nebraska at Omaha, US)
Making Formative Assessments REALLY Formative: Evaluating the Efficacy of Narrated Video Feedback
Presentation by Eric Chiang (Florida Atlantic University, US) & Jose Vasquez (University of Illinois, US)
Why Assessment Format Matters
Presentation by Philip Hedges (University of Westminster)
Assessment timing: student preferences and its impact on performance
Presentation by Richard McManus (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Contract Cheating and the Market in Essays
Workshop by Dan Rigby (University of Manchester), Michael Burton (University of Western Australia), Kevin Balcombe (University of Reading), Ian Bateman (University of East Anglia) & Abay Mulatu (London Metropolitan Business School)
Student expectations of assessment and feedback
Presentation by Linda Juleff, Sam Ling & Becky Stone (Southampton Solent University, UK)
Assessment and monitoring
Technology Oriented Learning Diagnostics in Economic Education - Theory and Practice
Presentation by Till Sender, Ewald Mittelstädt & Andreas Liening (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Which Factors Affect the Interest and Willingness of Students to Participate in Economic Education Programmes?
Presentation by Cornelius Lahme, Jan-Martin Geiger & Andreas Liening (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Does Attendance in Class Make a Difference to Student Grades? An Investigation of a Cohort of BSc Economics Students
Presentation by Ann Marsden, Jacek Witkowski, Francisco Macro-Serrano and Pawel Paluchowski (GSM London)
Classroom practice and student engagement
Teaching and Learning Economics Using Modern Art
Presentation by Gherardo Girardi (London Metropolitan University) & Raúl de Arriba (University of Valencia, Spain)
Assessing the effectiveness of peer assisted study schemes
Presentation by Ralf Becker & Maggie Fostier (University of Manchester)
The One-Minute Paper: A Qualitative Analysis
Presentation by Damian Whittard (University of the West of England)
Loss aversion as incentive to study
Presentation by Guglielmo Volpe (Queen Mary University of London)
Curriculum and content
The World if… economics was not so dismal
Keynote by Daniel Franklin (Executive editor, The Economist)
Three-Headed Economists, CORE and the QAA
Presentation by Andrew Mearman (University of Leeds)
“What Do We Want? Pluralism. When Will We Get It? Yesterday”: A Critical Review of Applied Economics Provision in the UK
Presentation by Duncan Watson, Louise Parker, Steve Cook, Fabio Arico & Peter Dawson (University of East Anglia)
Business Economics as Real World Economics: A Proposal for an Educational Reform
Presentation by Sara Gorgoni & Helen Mercer (University of Greenwich)
Educational resources
Does Format Matter? Evaluating the Effect of Online vs. Face-to-Face Principles Courses on Longer-Term Outcomes
Presentation by William Bosshardt & Eric Chiang (Florida Atlantic University, US)
Online Materials: Bane or Benefit?
Presentation by Andrew Mearman (University of Leeds), David Allen, Tim Hinks, Ling Nguyen & Don Webber (University of the West of England)
TRIBE: online teaching resource for business and economics
Presentation by Karen St. Jean-Kufuor (University of Westminster)
Employability and entrepreneurship
Generation research: helping students become well-trained economists for the challenges of the 21st century
Workshop by Cloda Jenkins, Parama Chaudhury, Christian Spielmann & Frank Witte (University College London)
Evaluation
Determinants of Student Evaluations
Presentation by Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol) & Giam Pietro Cipriano (University of Verona, Italy)
Experiments, games and role-play
The Blackboard Wiki for learning: Conclusions from the Classroom
Presentation by Mike Reynolds (University of Leeds)
Teaching monetary policy with contrasting methods
Presentation by David Wheat (University of Bergen, Norway) & Michelle Crook (Roanoke College, USA)
HE sector
Funding Education in the 21st Century
Keynote by Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Maths support
Using Blackboard, Microsoft OneNote and a Tablet PC to deliver large cohort maths teaching
Presentation by Adam Ozanne (University of Manchester)
Maths for business and economics first-year students: an EBL enquiry-based learning approach
Presentation by Linda Wannan-Edgar (La Trobe University, Australia)
Teaching the Use and Expression of Economic Analysis As If It Might Make a Difference
Workshop by Dean Garratt & Stephen Heasell (Nottingham Trent University)
Online and distance learning
Teaching with Twitter: an extension to the learning environment
Workshop by Paul Middleditch & Will Moindrot (University of Manchester)
Pre-university
Economics and Business Studies: Hard and soft choices? Subject selection by schools and students
Presentation by Peter Davies & Marco Ercolani (University of Birmingham)
The Role of Foundation Degrees in Predicting Success in Economics Degrees: Evidence from the IFP and PMP Programmes at QMUL
Presentation by Elmina Homapour, Yioryos Makedonis (Queen Mary University of London) & Denise Hawkes (University College London)
The impact of A-level reform on economics in higher education
Presentation by Peter Smith (University of Southampton)
Public understanding
The World if… economics was not so dismal
Keynote by Daniel Franklin (The Economist)
Publishing research
Publishing in the International Review of Economics Education, with the Editors of the International Review of Economics Education
Workshop by Ross Guest (Griffith University, Australia), Bill Bosshardt (Florida Atlantic University, US), Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol), David McCausland (University of Aberdeen) & Alvin Birdi (University of Bristol)
Research and teaching
ReplicationWiki – Improving Transparency in Economic Research as a By-Product of Studying
Workshop by Jan Höffler (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Simulations
Monte Carlo simulation and visualisation as advanced research and teaching tools for microeconomics
Presentation by Tomasz Kopczewski, Maciej Sobolewski & Ireneusz Miernik (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Fighting the Ebola virus: an example of qualitative risk modelling in a resource-constrained environment
Presentation by John Houston & Madhusudan Acharrya (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Student learning
Peer-Instruction Unveiled: Measuring Self-Assessment Skills and Learning Gains in a Large Flipped Learning Environment
Presentation by Fabio Arico, Peter Dawson & Duncan Watson (University of East Anglia)
Do the self-evaluation skills of economics undergraduates improve as they progress from the first to the second year of their degree programme?
Presentation by Jon Guest (University of Warwick) & Robert Riegler (Coventry University)
The Effects of Lecture Capture on Student Study
Presentation by Steven Proud & Alvin Birdi (University of Bristol)
Student support
Student transition and technology
Presentation by Valerie Dickie (Heriot-Watt University)
Economics and business students: different, different but the same
Presentation by Inna Pomorina (Bath Spa University)
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in teaching economics at HE level (whether to economics or other students), especially:
- Lecturers in higher and further education
- Graduate teaching assistants
- Library and information staff
- Teaching support staff
- Staff developers
