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DEE 2015: Presentations and Abstacts

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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

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