Here is the latest:
06/2023 Students from Royal Holloway are proposing ideas for assessment reforms in order to reduce attainment gaps in economics. The students will present their ideas and we will announce the winning proposals on the upcoming Assessment Codesign Cocreation Conference on 27/06/2023.
06/2023 Petar Stankov is giving a keynote address at the International AHE Conference 2023 in Manchester, UK. His presentation is on Are Exams Authentic Assessment: The Case of Economics.
05/2023 Petar Stankov has become an Associate of the Economics Network – the largest network of education-minded economists in the world. As an associate, Petar will be working on a variety of projects to improve and promote economics education in the UK and around the world.
03/2023 Petar Stankov’s paper The Death of Exams? Student Satisfaction and Grade Inflation When Coursework Replaces Exams, has been accepted for presentation at the 93rd Southern Economic Association annual meeting in November 2023. More to follow here.
11/2022 Petar Stankov is presenting his 'Revision Session Neutrality' work at the SEA Presidential Sessions, part of the SEA 92nd Annual Meeting, in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
07/2022 Arnaud Chevalier is leading the outreach work among students from disadvantaged background who could consider economics as their professional choice. The work has been supported by a Royal Economic Society Discover Economics grant scheme. As part of the project, RHUL will raise interest in studying economics to groups currently under-represented in the student body: women, the socio-economically disadvantaged, and ethnic minorities. We will also highlight the role of in-demand data analytics skills to prospective students. We will use the chance to promote the great career opportunities an Economics degree gives to our students. As part of our promotion efforts, we will launch the latest undergraduate course offered by the RHUL Economics department: BSc Economics and Data Science.
06/2022 Petar Stankov is presenting his work on the 'Authenticity of Final Exams' at the annual TeachECONference2022 organised by the CTaLE, UK's leading centre for teaching and learning economics
06/2022 Jungyoon Lee and Petar Stankov took part in the RHUL Assessment Futures Symposium. They discussed ways to formulate course learning outcomes and the feasibility of matching course-level assessment.
06/2022 Jungyoon Lee and Petar Stankov took part in the RHUL Teaching and Learning Symposium. They discussed assessment strategies and outreach activities to smooth the transition of freshers into their new academic life.
05/2022 Petar Stankov presented his work on Attainment Gaps and Authenticity: Reforming Assessment in an Advanced UG Module at the RHUL Teaching and Learning Symposium
04/2022 Petar Stankov led the advisory work of RHUL Economics Department members who submitted applications for the annual College Excellence in Teaching Awards.
03/2022 Martin Enilov, a lecturer (TF) at RHUL Economics for the 2021/22 academic year, completed a report on attainment gaps across the UG courses offered by the RHUL Economics Department. Congrats to Martin who has accepted a position as a lecturer at the Univesity of Southampton!
03/2022 Arnaud Chevalier received a grant by the Royal Economic Society to enhance outreach activities of the RHUL Economics Department. Congratulations!
02/2022 Internal seminar on Education Matters
12/2021 Lena Hassani Nezhad, Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier, Melanie Lührmann and Ronni Pavan have just published their work on Higher Education Financing and the Educational Aspirations of Teenagers and their Parents in the Economics of Education Review, Vol. 85, 102175
12/2021 Upskilling workshops were held to step up preparations for the HEA (Advance HE) Fellowship and Senior Fellowships applications. RHUL's Education Development team was leading the work. Special thanks goes to Lynne Francis for investing her time to help colleagues with their portfolios.
12/2021 Joris Tieleman from Our New Economy, presented his new publication of Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education.
11/2021 Stefania Paredes-Fuentes gave a talk on her newest experiment with economics assessment. Stefania is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, a Deputy Director of UG Studies for Economics, and a Deputy Chair of the Education Committee at their Faculty of Social Sciences. She is currently working in various research projects on Economic Education including how students engage with resources and how these resources contribute to their performance in assessments. She is also an editor for "Teaching Macroeconomics: A Modern and Inclusive Approach", which is to be published in 2022.
09/2021 Petar Stankov presented his work on Pedagogical Risk-Taking Under Uncertainty: The RHUL Flexible Teaching Model at the Teaching and Learning Symposium 2021 at University of East London.