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Assessment to promote learning in a literacy-targeted (LT) economics course

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  • Mark Maier
  • Phil Ruder

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The literacy-targeted (LT) introductory economics course seeks to reduce the quantity of economic concepts under study and increase students’ ability to apply those concepts to improve their own decisions and to make sense of economic news. The assessment strategy of the course must target students’ ability to transfer their conceptual knowledge to new situations. Assessments can include authentic and ill-structured problems. Frequent formative assessment with feedback gives students sufficient practice to develop deep understanding. Social learning pedagogy makes possible many more practice opportunities with immediate feedback than are possible in instructor-centered pedagogy. Regular writing assignments further develop students’ ability to apply economic concepts to real-world problems. Strategies from the writing across the curriculum (WAC) movement can limit the resulting increase in instructor workload.

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  • Mark Maier & Phil Ruder, 2024. "Assessment to promote learning in a literacy-targeted (LT) economics course," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(2), pages 146-155, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:55:y:2024:i:2:p:146-155
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2023.2285451
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