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dc.contributor.authorGuest, R
dc.contributor.authorVecchio, N
dc.contributor.editorPeter Davies, Carol Johnston
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:21:33Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:21:33Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2008-02-06T05:18:23Z
dc.identifier.issn1477-3880
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/6390
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the effect on learning outcomes for given topics in macroeconomics of conflating a two-semester micro and macroeconomics course into a one-semester combined micro/macro course by dropping some topics. A hypothesis that learning spillovers exist between topics is developed and tested. This is done by comparing examination results on a given set of multiple-choice questions for two large groups of students - one who had undertaken a single-semester course in macroeconomics and another who had undertaken a single-semester combined micro/macroeconomics course. In our sample, the latter group of students scored significantly less on average than the former group, after controlling for other factors, even though both had 'learned' the same topics that were examined. This suggests that positive learning spillovers do exist between topics and therefore that dropping some topics reduces the quality of learning outcomes on other topics. This has implications for the apparent trend towards reducing the mandatory number of economics units in business degrees in Australia from two to one.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Bristol
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom36
dc.relation.ispartofpageto60
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Review of Economics Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume1
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3901
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.titleAre there learning spillovers in introductory macroeconomics?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
gro.rights.copyright© 2003 IREE. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorGuest, Ross


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