Collaborative Proposal: Economics Experiments to Prepare Secondary Teachers and Reinforce Understanding of Basic Economics

合作提案：通过经济学实验培养中学教师并加强对基础经济学的理解

• 批准号: 0230901
• 负责人: Lisa Anderson
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0230901&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Economics; Experiments; Prepare

In recent years economists have successfully developed simulated experiments for use in teaching undergraduate students. These have been created from experiments that were initially devised for research. For example, a market with a trading pit can be used to introduce the concepts of supply and demand, and market efficiency. This approach has been developed for teaching purposes as active and participatory, which has strongly benefited student interest and understanding of basic undergraduate-level economics. It has helped to overcome student frustration with the abstract and technical character of economic theory. In this project, we extend these teaching materials to a set of three experiments that are explicitly designed to be used by students preparing to teach economics in secondary education. Our approach is to use the same materials in workshops that the students will use once they become teachers in high schools, and to encourage the use these materials as a basis for student teaching. These workshops are also available to faculty teaching basic economics in community colleges. The materials being created for this project cover specific topics mentioned in National and State Standards of Learning for Economics for grades 8 - 12. This project is also conducting research on the relative effectiveness of these materials introduced in workshops and used in student teaching as a way of reinforcing undergraduate students understanding of basic economics. We are examining the range of student backgrounds in economics that are likely to benefit from participation in these pre-service teaching activities.

近年来，经济学家们成功地开发了用于本科生教学的模拟实验。 这些都是从最初为研究而设计的实验中创造出来的。 例如，一个有交易坑的市场可以用来介绍供求和市场效率的概念。 这种方法是为教学目的而开发的，具有积极性和参与性，极大地提高了学生的兴趣和对基础本科经济学的理解。 它有助于克服学生对经济理论的抽象和技术性的挫折感。 在这个项目中，我们将这些教材扩展到一组三个实验，这些实验是明确设计用于准备在中学教育中教授经济学的学生。 我们的方法是在工作坊中使用学生一旦成为高中教师将使用的相同材料，并鼓励使用这些材料作为学生教学的基础。 这些讲习班也提供给社区学院教授基础经济学的教师。 为该项目创建的材料涵盖了8 - 12年级经济学学习的国家和州标准中提到的具体主题。 该项目还研究了在讲习班上介绍并用于学生教学的这些材料的相对有效性，以加强本科生对基础经济学的理解。 我们正在研究经济学学生背景的范围，这些背景可能会从参与这些职前教学活动中受益。