Lost in Translation? Teacher Training and Outcomes in High School Economics Classes

Valletta, Robert G.; Hoff, K. Jody; Lopus, Jane S.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2020745

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“…Another study compared teacher characteristics using random effects and fixed effects and found that increasing teachers’ college coursework led to lower student scores on an essay test. This suggests that teachers with more advanced knowledge may be trying to teach at too high a level for high school students and that their knowledge may be “lost in translation” (Valletta et al, 2014).…”

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The Effects of theChair the FedSimulation on High School Students’ Knowledge

Duzhak

Hoff

Lopus

2020

The American Economist

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Chair the Fed is an award-winning online simulation developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to teach about the role of the Fed in achieving its dual mandate goals of stable prices and maximum employment. It is widely used, with an average of close to 85,000 games started each month in 2019. This article describes Chair the Fed and the results of a controlled experiment to determine its effects on learning in high school economics classes in the Fed’s 12th district. We find that students who played Chair the Fed score significantly higher on a 10-question posttest compared with students who learned about the Fed and monetary policy in more traditional ways. In evaluating our results, we compare difference-in-difference regression modeling with the traditional economic education model where the posttest score is regressed on the pretest score, and find that our results are robust across both specifications. JEL Classifications: A20, A21, E52, E58

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