TED 8650 Elementary Economics
Reading and Test Schedule, Spring, 1998
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Date |
Reading Assignment for this Week |
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Jan 20-21 |
Introduction |
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Jan 27-28 |
Chapter 1 The Economic Problem |
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Feb 3-4 |
"Electronic Economics Resources" |
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Feb 10-11 |
Chapter 2 Basic Economic Questions |
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Feb 17-18 |
Chapter 3 Exchange and Money |
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Feb 24-25 |
Chapter 4 Consumers and Demand |
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1st Journal Assignment Due |
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Mar 3-4 |
Review Chapter 1-4 |
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Mar 10-11 |
First Test over Chapter 1-4 |
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Mar 17-18 |
No Class |
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Mar 24-25 |
Chapter 5 Production |
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Mar 30-1 |
Chapter 6 Producers and Supply |
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Apr 7-8 |
Chapter 7 Markets |
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Apr 14-15 |
OPS Spring Break |
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Apr 21-22 |
Chapter 8 National and International Economics |
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Apr 28-29 |
Review Chapter 5-8 |
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May 5-6 |
Second Test Chapter 5-8 |
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May 12-13 |
No Class |
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May 19-20 |
Projects and Journals due |
Pre and Post Testing:
If you teach in grades 3-6, before you begin teaching economics to your students, we ask you to pretest your students using the BET (Basic Test of Economics). We will supply the electronic answer sheets and test. At the end of the semester, after you have taught some economics throughout the semester, we will ask you to administer the same test to your students.
We will ask the administrators in the class, to test a control class of students at grades 3-6, whose teachers are not in the economics program. We would use this control group to test the effectiveness of the program.
We will not be using individual or class scores but will use age groups of students to show gains in economic literacy.