Economic Examples
The following examples were designed explicitly for economics courses. However, one should not narrow their focus on this limited set of examples since much can be learned about how to develop and incorporate cooperative learning examples by reviewing exercises developed for other disciplines. A number of non economics cooperative learning exercises can be found in this module.
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- Low (simple, informal, less than 15 minutes, in-class)
- Where Do I Begin? Using Think-Pair-Share to Initiate the Problem Solving Process
- Using Note-Taking Pairs to Enhance Understanding of Difficult Concepts (such as Income and Substitution Effects
- Think-Pair-Share: Analyzing Changes in Supply and Demand and Predicting Impacts on Equilibrium
- Think-Pair-Share: Functions of Money
- Exploring and Explaining Determinants of Supply and Demand: Utilizing the Think-Pair-Share Technique
- Think-Pair-Share Activity for Understanding Price Controls
- Medium (one to two meeting sessions, more formal, in or out of class)
- Understanding the Impact of (Fiscal and Monetary) Policy: Using the Send-A-Problem Technique
- Cooperative Learning Exercises to Teach the Gains from Trade
- A Send-a-Problem Exercise for Applying Labor Force Participation Models to Popular Press Articles
- Using Cooperative Peer Editing to Develop Effective Economic Research Questions
- Send-a-Problem: Making the Connection between Data and Models
- Using Cooperative Peer Editing to Improve Writing Assignments in Economics
- An Extended Think-Pair-Share Application: Trends in U.S. Wage Structure
- A Cooperative Learning Approach to Policy Debates (with Application to an Economics of Poverty and Discrimination Class
- High (complex, formal, across multiple class periods, in and out of classes)
