Bill Goffe

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

I'm an associate teaching professor at Penn State. In addition, I'm an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Education and am a member of the AEA's Committee on Economic Education. I also enjoy conducting economics education research and have a great interest in evidence-based teaching methods. These are becoming a hallmark of STEM teaching and I deeply feel that they should be part of economics instruction as well.

Workshop Participant, Webinar Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (8), Other Contribution (1)

Activities (8)

Circular Flow -- Equivalence of Income, Spending, and Production part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
In this activity students should come to understand a key part of the circular flow -- why income, production, and spending have the same dollar value.

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U.S. Economic Growth and Inflation Since 1970 part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students are given a number of variables to retrieve from FRED and from them they identify the behavior of U.S. inflation and economic growth since 1970.

Plotting Inflation and a Recession in P-Y Space (an Essential Skill for AD-AS Analysis) part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students learn to move between two representations of the same phenomena-time series and a graph-to show recession and inflation, an essential skill for connecting AD/AS analysis to time series plots of macro ...

Calculating Economic Growth and Inflation from FRED part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students are given a number of variables to retrieve from FRED and they're asked to calculate both inflation and economic growth. Thus, they must they must find the correct variable, perform the correct ...

Inflation Versus the Price Level part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students confront the difference between inflation and the price level. This is a common issue for many principles students.

Discovering Economic Preconceptions using Clickers part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
Student preconceptions in the economics classroom are an under-appreciated element of teaching. Here we describe how clickers can easily be used to determine student preconceptions and thus inform the instructor on the information that students bring to the classroom.

Clickers As an Alternative to Scantrons part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
Clickers can be used to replace Scantron forms for exams. This can save considerable time and effort when it comes to recording scores.

Using Clickers to Inductively Construct Economic Concepts part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
This technique reverses the usual order of definitions and examples used in class to one of presenting an example or examples first and then having students "discover" the concept when asked with carefully constructed clicker questions.

Other Contribution (1)

Bill Goffe part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:About this Project:Project Participants
A faculty profile page for Bill Goffe, an economics professor at SUNY Oswego and contributor to the Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics project, highlighting his academic background, interest in physics-inspired pedagogical reforms, editorial role in the Journal of Economic Education, and advocacy for evidence-based teaching methods in economics.

Workshop Participant

Spring 2012 Workshop
March 2012 Developing Modules for Teaching Economics
October 2009

Webinar Participant

ASCN Webinar: Collectively Improving Our Teaching
November 2018