Abstract

Team-based Learning (TBL) has sound conceptual and empirical backing and is seeing growing partial and full adoption in economics. However, perceived implementation costs and risk remain high for many instructors wary of fully implementing TBL. Additionally, common economics problems are often ill-suited for TBL application exercise criteria. The author of this article describes partial implementation (one day per week) of TBL in an introductory class. Application exercises are built around policy questions that align with TBL question criteria while still working effectively in the economics classroom. The partial implementation and readily available resources offer instructors a low-cost way to experiment with TBL.

摘要

基于团队的学习 (TBL) 具有良好的概念和经验支持，并且正在越来越多地部分和全部采用经济学。然而，对于许多对全面实施 TBL 持谨慎态度的教师来说，实施成本和风险仍然很高。此外，常见的经济学问题通常不适合 TBL 应用练习标准。这篇文章的作者在介绍性课程中描述了 TBL 的部分实现（每周一天）。应用练习围绕符合 TBL 问题标准的政策问题而构建，同时在经济学课堂上仍然有效。部分实施和现成的资源为教师提供了一种低成本的 TBL 实验方式。