Reading Assignment 1

  1. Elzinga, Kenneth G. (2001) “Fifteen Theses on Classroom Teaching,” Southern Economic Journal. 68(2): 249-257.
  2. Gosser, David K. (2001) “The Peer-Led Team Learning Workshop Model,” in Gosser, D., Cracolice, M., Kampmeier, J., Roth, V., Strozak, V., and Varma-Nelson, P. (eds), Peer- Led Team Learning: A Guidebook, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
  3. Gosser, David K. (2001) “The Students’ Perspectives,” in Gosser, D., Cracolice, M., Kampmeier, J., Roth, V., Strozak, V., and Varma-Nelson, P. (eds), Peer- Led Team Learning: A Guidebook, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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Reading Assignment 2

  1. Wooldridge, Jeffrey (2009) "Carrying out an Empirical Project," in Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 4th Edition.
  2. Salemi, Michael (2002) "An Illustrated Case for Active Learning," Southern Economic Journal 68(3):721-731 

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Reading Assignment 3

  1. Bartlett, Robin L. (1995) "A Flip of the Coin. A Roll of the Die: An Answer to the Free-Rider Problem in Economic Instruction," The Journal of Economic Education 26(2): 131-139.

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Reading Assignment 4

  1. Stock, W., Ward, K., Folsom, J., Borrenpohl, T., Mumford, S., Pershin, A., Carriere, D., and H. Smart, (2013) “Cheap and Effective:  The Impact of Student-Led Recitation Classes on Learning Outcomes in Introductory Economics,” Journal of Economic Education, 44(1): 1-15.

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Reading Assignment 5

  1. Frank, Robert (2012) “Less is More: The Perils of Trying to Cover Too Much in Microeconomic Principles,” in Hoyt, G., and K. McGoldrick (eds)International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, Northhampton, MA, Edward Elgar.

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Reading Assignment 6


  1. Figart, Deborah (2012) “Teaching Non-majors,” in Hoyt, G., and K. McGoldrick (eds)International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, Northhampton, MA, Edward Elgar.

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Reading Assignment 7

  1. DeLoach, Stephen (2012) “What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of the Literature,” in Hoyt, G., and K. McGoldrick (eds) International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, Northhampton, MA, Edward Elgar.

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Reading Assignment 8


  1. Siegfried, John J.  (1977) “Is Teaching the Best Way to Learn? An Evaluation of Benefits and Costs to Undergraduate Student Proctors in Elementary Economics,” Southern Economic Journal, 43(3): 1394-1400.

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