Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
March 18, 2024
Summary:
In this article we present a series of light-touch, easy to implement, classroom activities designed to improve students’ understanding and interpretation of regression coefficients. Using an experiment, we evaluate the effectiveness of the activities by randomly allocating first-year undergraduate students into a seminar with the activities (treatment group) or not (control group). We demonstrate that the classroom activities have a large, positive effect on several domains including engagement (measured by seminar attendance), enjoyment of learning (measured by an end-of-term student satisfaction survey), and their understanding of the material (measured by test scores). These results suggest that adopting more varied pedagogical approaches to teaching statistics/econometrics can benefit students.
Published in
Journal for Economic Educators
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 24 , p.44 -62
ISSN
26885956
Subjects
Link
https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jfee/article/view/2475
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