Teaching Economic Crisis and Stock Market Using A Movie

Abstract

This study describes the evaluation of teaching method that uses a movie as an instructional media to demonstrate a clear concept about the economic crisis and stock market. In this study, the movie watched by the students is movie entitled "The Big Short", a Hollywood movie telling the chronology of Subprime-Mortgage Crisis happened in the United States of America along with everything about stock market and the story of people who benefited from the crisis, which is based on the true story. The evaluation was performed by conducting the 'quasi-experiment' designed with a nonequivalent control group. The result shows that there is a significant different learning output between the control group and the intervention group.