Testing a new approach to teaching introductory economics: Effects on subsequent learning.
The academic performance of students who take an introductory economics subject taught from CORE's The Economy is compared to the performance of students taught using the Australian adaptation of Mankiw's principles text. All students attended the same university, completing the relevant subject dur...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 606 - 628 |
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