Assessment Materials in Principles (General)
A freely usable library of standardised assessments for economics students, with an option to deliver the assessments online and have a summary report emailed to the lecturer. These are designed as "an objective, repeatable measure of what your students know about a particular subject" and so support testing of prerequisites for a course and enable pedagogical research.
Video clips from Netflix shows, hosted on Critical Commons, are associated with notes and reflection questions related to areas of Economics. The shows are drawn from all over the world, including Money Heist (Spain), Squid Game (South Korea), and Queen Sono (South Africa). The database can be browsed by show or by area of economics and there are notes for teachers.
This online quiz presents a twenty-question multiple-choice self-test on the bare fundamentals of economic literacy, with detailed feedback on answers. Results have already been taken from more than 100,000 users. A couple of the questions have language reflecting the test US origin.
An open online textbook, divided into 38 chapters, drawn from various open educational sources including MIT Open CourseWare and Wikipedia, and curated by "subject matter experts, like professors, PhDs and Master’s students." One section deals with controversies in economics (with a US focus), such as "should the Government maintain a balanced budget?" Development of the textbook stopped in 2017 and the book was archived in this version.
This archive uses presents feedback on multi-choice questions on 40 different topics, with varying numbers of questions in each. Many of the questions involve clickable images, with students using mouse clicks to indicate equilibria. Topics include: markets, firms, wages, national income, money, unemployment and inflation, government, and international. The official site is no longer running, so this link is to Archive.org's copy.
This course web page includes problem sets, as well as lecture slides (on market demand), all in .pdf.
These exams and problems were created by Dr. Katie Bicknell at Lincoln University. It includes question sheets on seventeen introductory topics, without answers. The topics include micro and macro principles, such as inflation, profit and costs, elasticity and aggregate expenditure. This is part of the Economic Education Centre initiative at Centre College.
This is an example online test from the EconWeb site. Access to the full site requires a subscription. This quiz asks ten objective-answer questions about the basics of supply and demand and gives the reader a percentage score.
Part of the AmosWEB site, this part assesses the reader's knowledge of key principles and topics using multiple choice questions. While feedback is given in terms of how you scored, the site fails to tell you which answers you got right or wrong.
This site has dozens of multiple-choice tests related to chapters of Roger A. Arnold's text books covering introductory economics. Each test has twenty questions and is marked on-line, with links to explanations of the correct answers.
This colourful game tests knowledge of basic economic concepts, by challenging the user to connect terms with their short definitions by clicking on cards. The game showcases a facility for creating interactive educational material.
