Strengthening the writing component in upper level economics electives

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI:10.1016/j.iree.2024.100290

Helen Schneider

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Abstract

Writing-intensive economics courses are courses that use writing as a central feature of instruction and evaluation of students’ work. This study presents and evaluates teaching improvements on these basic structures. Using teaching evaluations data from eight public finance sections taught between Fall of 2012 and Spring of 2019, an ordered probit model estimates the value, as rated by students, of the following improvements to enhance the writing quality of student papers: (1) explicit grading rubrics; (2) funding a dedicated course specialist consultant (CSC) from the writing center; (3) engaging librarians in creating a literature review guide; (4) instructor blogging. The empirical model estimates the contribution of the improvements to the overall instructor and course evaluation ratings as well as to the writing component student ratings. Empirical results show that grading rubrics had a statistically significant positive effect on student assessments of writing component design and writing skills development. Engaging a dedicated CSC improves writing skills ratings. Instructor blogging had a statistically significant positive effect on instructor ratings while literature review guide improved course ratings. Only an expected grade had a significant positive effect on all student rated course outcomes. The goal of this paper is to provide ideas for enhancing economics content through writing.

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加强高年级经济学选修课的写作部分

写作密集型经济学课程是以写作作为教学和学生作业评价的核心特征的课程。本研究介绍并评估了这些基本结构的教学改进情况。利用2012年秋季至2019年春季期间教授的8门公共金融学的教学评价数据，有序probit模型估算了学生对以下提高学生论文写作质量的改进措施的评价价值：（1）明确的评分标准；（2）从写作中心资助一名专门的课程专家顾问（CSC）；（3）让图书馆员参与创建文献综述指南；（4）教师写博客。实证模型估算了这些改进对教师和课程总体评价以及写作部分学生评价的贡献。实证结果表明，评分标准对学生对写作部分设计和写作技能发展的评价有显著的积极影响。聘请专门的 CSC 可以提高写作技能评分。教员博客对教员评分有统计学意义上的积极影响，而文献综述指南提高了课程评分。只有预期成绩对所有学生评定的课程结果都有明显的积极影响。本文旨在为通过写作加强经济学内容提供思路。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.