The Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE)

Overview

Economic education research has taught us a lot over the years about pedagogy and student learning, but most of what we know comes from studies and experiments run at single institutions in classes usually taught by just one or two instructors. These studies have two big weaknesses: low precision and limited generalizability. We believe we have an opportunity to address both of these and make a big leap forward in research productivity.

The Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE) is a new collaboration of instructors around the world that cooperate to run synchronized studies in their classrooms. We will tackle important research questions, come to agreement about study protocols, implement treatments, collect comparable data, and pool our samples. These pooled samples will be big enough to give us precise estimates, and because we have a wide range of courses, institutions, and students, we will be able to generalize our results. In turn, these results will help us all improve our teaching, increase student learning, address equity issues in our classrooms, and potentially increase diversity in our profession.

EENE is led by Douglas McKee (Cornell), George Orlov (Cornell), Emily Marshall (Dickinson College), Brandon Sheridan (Elon University), and Bill Goffe (Penn State).

Learn more about EENE at eene.org.