CTREE 2024 Coming Soon
April 22, 2024
As usual, we have a lot going on at the Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) this year with organizing two panels and presenting new research.
First on our plate is presenting a new version of our Who Cares about Economics paper. We got great feedback our audience at the Southern Economic Association meetings last fall and from our discussant (Melissa Spencer at Richmond) that we are addressing now. We are also looking at student attitudes about economics separately by course instead of aggregating all our data into introductory and intermediate-level courses. We think there could be substantial differences in how attitudes evolve during the term by instructor too. Doug will do the presentation and this will be his 8th CTREE.
Second, Doug will be chairing a panel on using interactive visualizations to teach economic models and concepts. The session will be chock full of demonstrations from introductory microeconomics, intermediate microeconomics, and macroeconomics. Celina, Martin, and Max will show exercises that they developed last summer for use in introductory micro.
And third, George will chair a panel on what we can learn from large-scale multi-site studies in economic education. Three panelists (Matthew Rousu, Syan Bhanot, and Kate Silz-Carson) have implemented multi-site experimental studies, and they will share the lessons learned from their experiences. All three studies involved coordination of instructors at several institutions, agreement about treatment and control conditions, and standardized data sharing. They provide examples of what can be learned from such studies as well as cautionary tales about what can go wrong. The fourth panlist (Carlos Cortinhas) will set the stage for a disucssion of issues of regulated data transfer and variation in ethical review requirements. George will be the fifth panelist, and he will introduce the audience to the Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE). This will be George’s 6th CTREE.
