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Assessing the impact of research capstone preparation in the economics curriculum

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  • Priscilla Cooke St. Clair
  • Lynn Hunnicutt
  • Karen Travis

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It is challenging for economics major programs to support an undergraduate research capstone where the goal is for all majors to complete a research project that creates new knowledge. Our program has found a way to achieve this for all of our majors in the face of resource constraints and varying student skill levels, and has done this without requiring econometrics or a research methods class or sacrificing quality. Our method includes having assignments that require students to use peer-reviewed economics journal articles in most upper-level economic elective courses. We describe our method and “capstone prep” assignment variants, and, using regression analysis on a data set of undergraduate economics majors from 2007 through 2018, find that particular assignments appear to significantly improve capstone outcomes.

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  • Priscilla Cooke St. Clair & Lynn Hunnicutt & Karen Travis, 2020. "Assessing the impact of research capstone preparation in the economics curriculum," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(3-4), pages 257-270, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:51:y:2020:i:3-4:p:257-270
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2020.1804506
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    1. Depro, Brooks & Rouse, Kathryn, 2022. "Adapting the case method in an economics capstone research course," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).

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