Sessions at Professional Meetings (Phase 3)
2008 ASSA Meetings
Formative and Summative Assessment in Economics Principles Courses: Are Applied Group Exercises Effective?
Dagney Faulk (Chicago 2006), Indiana University Southeast, School of Business, 816 Cedar Bough Place, New Albany, IN 47150, dfaulk@ius.edu
Student Effort, Feedback about Their Effort, and Learning
Wayne A. Grove (Georgetown 2005), Le Moyne College, Economics Department, Reilly Hall 335, Syracuse, NY 13214-1399, grovewa@lemoyne.edu and Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University, 316 B Maxwell Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020, jevensky@maxwell.syr.edu
Using Cooperative Learning to Enhance Student Research and Writing
Gail Heyne Hafer (Georgetown 2005), St. Louis Community College at Meramec, 300 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63102-2800, ghafer@stlcc.edu
Engaged Learning with the Interpretive Question Cluster Discussion Technique: Student Outcomes in a History of Economic Thought Course
Kristen Madden (Santa Fe 2006), Millersville University, PO Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551, kirsten.madden@millersville.edu
Discussants: Yu-Mong Hsiao (Rizzo 2005), Campbell University; Tom Scheiding (Santa Fe 2006), Elizabethtown College; Brian Peterson (Santa Fe 2006), Central College; and Judy Smrha (Chicago 2006), Baker University
2007 Western Economic Association Sessions
An Exchange Rate Experiment With Purchasing Power Parity
Nicole B. Simpson (Georgetown 2005), Colgate University Department of Economics. 13 Oak Dr., Hamilton, NY 13346, nsimpson@colgate.edu; David Mitchell, St. Mary's College of CA, Department of Economics, P. O. Box 4230, Moraga, CA 94575-4230, dtmitche@stmarys-ca.edu; Robert Rebelein (Georgetown 2005), Vassar College, Department of Economics, Box 290, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, rebelein@vassar.edu; Patricia Schneider (Santa Fe 2006), Mount Holyoke College, Department of Economics, 122 Skinner Hall, South Hadley, MA 01075, pschneid@mtholyoke.edu; Eric Fisher, California Polytechnic State University, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, fisher.244@osu.edu
A Simple Classroom Experiment on Money Demand
Xiaofen Chen, (Chicago 2006) Truman State University, Social Science Division, 100 East Normal Street, Kirksville, MO 63501, Xiaofen@truman.edu
Bread for Chocolate: Inflation in a Classroom Candy Auction
L. James Peyton (Chicago 2006) Economics Department MS 11-1, Highline Community College, PO Box 98000, Des Moines WA 98198-9800, jpeyton@highline.edu
A Classroom Experiment on Banking
Mary M. Kassis (Santa Barbara 2007), Department of Economics, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, mkassis@westga.edu, Denise Hazlett, Department of Economics Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362, hazlett@whitman.edu, Jolanda E. Ygosse Battisti, São Paulo School of Economics (FGV-EESP) and São Paulo School of Business, of the Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP), Rua Itapeva 474, Bela Vista, São Paulo – SP, Jolanda.Ygosse.Battisti@fgv.br
Worker Payments and Incentives
Linda S. Ghent (Santa Fe 2006), Eastern Illinois University, Department of Economics, Coleman 2159, Charleston, IL 61920, lsghent@eiu.edu
Active Learning in Economics: An Elasticity Experiment
Tamah Morant (Santa Fe 2006), Department of Economics, NC State University, CB #8110, 4136 Nelson Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, tamah_morant@ncsu.edu
Cases in Principles of Microeconomics: Company Strategies Regarding Product Differentiation and Price Competition
Ann Davis (Santa Fe 2006), Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601, ann.davis@marist.edu
Teaching Perfect and Imperfect Competition with Context-Rich Problems
Joann Bangs (Chicago 2006), College of Saint Catherine, 2004 Randolph Ave. Box 4206, St. Paul, MN 55105, jmbangs@stkate.edu
Double-Oral Auction Experiment For Large Enrollment Courses, Diminishing Marginal Returns Experiment for the Whole Class, Issues in Running Experiments in Large Enrollment Courses
Jose J. Vazquez-Cognet (Georgetown 2005), Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61821, vazquezj@uiuc.edu
2007 ASSA Meetings
January 6, 2007 8:00 Session
Cooperative Learning and the Essay Exam
Jill L. Caviglia-Harris (Rizzo Center 2005), Economics and Finance Department, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21804-6860, jlcaviglia-harris@salisbury.edu
A Classroom Experiment on Exchange Rate Determination
Robert Rebelein (Georgetown 2005), Vassar College, Department of Economics, Vassar College, Box 290, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, rebelein@vassar.edu and Nicole B. Simpson (Georgetown 2005), 13 Oak Drive, Department of Economics, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, nsimpson@mail.colgate.edu
New Insights from In-Class Experiments: Using Excel to Post and Analyze Results On the Spot
Thomas A. Creahan (Rizzo 2005), Department of Economics, Morehead State University , 222 Combs Building , Morehead, KY 40351-1689, t.creahan@morehead-st.edu
Discussants: Gail Hafer (Georgetown 2005), St. Louis Community College-Meramec and Pavel Kapinos, Carleton College
2006 Southern Economic Association Session
Cooperative Learning in a Distance Learning Environment
Sue K. Stockly (Rizzo 2005), Department of Business Administration and Economics, Eastern New Mexico University, ENMU Station 49. Portales, NM 88130, Sue.Stockly@enmu.edu
Discussant: KimMarie McGoldrick, Department of Economics, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, kmcgoldr@richmond.edu
CPR for the Economics Classroom
Kay E. Strong (Georgetown 2005), Bowling Green State University Firelands, One University Drive, Huron, OH 44839, kstrong@bgsu.edu
Discussant: Steven. A. Greenlaw (Santa Fe 2006), Department of Economics, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, sgreenla@mwc.edu
Running Classroom Experiments in a Large Enrollment Economics Course
Jose J. Vazquez-Cogent (Georgetown 2005), Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1407 W. Gregory, Box 39, MC-706, Urbana, IL 61801
Discussant: Thomas A. Creahan (Rizzo 2005), Department of Economics, Morehead State University, 222 Combs Building, Morehead, KY 40351-1689, t.creahan@morehead-st.edu
Assessing the Gains from Concept Mapping in Introductory Statistics
David Doorn (Rizzo 2005), 104 School of Business and Economics Building, University of Minnesota Duluth, 412 Library Drive, Duluth, MN 55812-3029, ddoorn@d.umn.edu and Maureen O’Brien, 104 School of Business and Economics Building, University of Minnesota Duluth, 412 Library Drive, Duluth, MN 55812-3029, mobrien@d.umn.edu
Discussants: Dennis Sullivan, Department of Economics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, sullivdh@muohio.edu