Facilitating Classroom Economics Experiments With an Emerging Technology: The Case of Clickers

29 Pages Posted: 29 May 2007

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Donald J. Liu

University of Minnesota - Department of Applied Economics

J.D. Walker

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Theresa Bauer

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Meng Zhao

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Date Written: May 15, 2007

Abstract

The audience response system (ARS) has increasingly been used to engage students by eliciting and analyzing responses to questions posed by instructors. The authors discuss how they used the system to facilitate pit market trading in a microeconomics class, report the efficacy of the approach and provide suggestions extending the use of ARS to other experiments. Using the ARS to facilitate active learning by engaging students in economics experiments has pedagogical advantages over both the labor-intensive approach of pencil-and-paper and the capital-intensive route of relying on networked or on-line computer labs which oftentimes preclude or restrict face-to-face student interactions. Thus, the new method represents an added advantage on top of such conventional functions as taking attendance and administering quizzes of this increasingly popular classroom technology.

JEL Classification: A2

Suggested Citation

Liu, Donald J. and Walker, J.D. and Bauer, Theresa and Zhao, Meng, Facilitating Classroom Economics Experiments With an Emerging Technology: The Case of Clickers (May 15, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=989482 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.989482

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J.D. Walker

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ( email )

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Theresa Bauer

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ( email )

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Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Meng Zhao

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ( email )

420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

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