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. The Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE) is a collaboration of instructors around the world that addresses both of these and enables big leap forward in research productivity.

EENE instructors cooperate to develop and run synchronized studies in their classrooms. We tackle important research questions, come to agreement about study protocols, implement treatments, collect comparable data, and pool our samples. These pooled samples are big enough to give us precise estimates, and because we have a wide range of courses, institutions, and students, we can generalize our results. In turn, these results 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), and Brandon Sheridan (Elon University).

Learn more about EENE at eene.org.