This section includes resources relating to inclusive learning practices, biases in teaching evaluations and links to relevant organisations that support economics education.
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Resource Title | Author(s)/ Organisation / Publication | Summary | Keywords | Publication date | Type of Resource |
Royal Economic Society | Presentation slides from Professor Gabriella Cagliesi, University of Sussex, on ‘How to create inclusive learning environments” – presented on 9 June to the RES Diversity and Inclusion Network meeting. | inclusive, learning, drivers for change | 01-Jun-23 | Presentation slides | |
Racial and gender achievement gaps in an economics classroom | Daria Bottan, | This paper documents gender and race/ethnic achievement gaps over four semesters of an intermediate-level economics course. It finds that, on average, under-represented minority (URM) students score lower on assessments, and this racial achievement gap differs in important ways for male and female students. Male URM students earned lower final exam scores than male non-URM students, but this gap disappears when we control for differences in prior preparation. In contrast, female URM students performed significantly worse than female non-URM students, even after controlling for prior preparation. | under-represented minority, gender, race, ethnicity, achievement gaps | 01-Jun-22 | Research paper |
Royal Economic Society | Special session from RES annual conference 2021, chaired by Prof Denise Hawkes, looking at diversity in the teaching and learning of economics. | diversity, leadership | 01-May-21 | Video – webinar | |
Variation in Women’s Success across PhD Programs in Economics | Leah Boustan, | Paper in Journal of Economic Perspectives: Research paper finding that departments with better outcomes for women also hire more women faculty, facilitate advisor-student contact, provide collegial research seminars, and are notable for senior faculty with awareness of gender issues. We offer our qualitative evidence as the first step in learning about “what works” in expanding women’s representation in economics. | graduate programmes, PhD, best practices, women | Dec-19 | Research paper |
Friederike Mengel, Jan Sauermann, Ulf Zölitz | Journal of the European Economic Association – This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. This gender bias may have direct as well as indirect effects on the career progression of women by affecting junior women’s confidence and through the reallocation of instructor resources away from research and toward teaching (pay wall) | higher education, gender bias, teaching evaluations | 01-Apr-19 | Research paper | |
Amanda Bayer | Resources provided by Div.E.Q. promoting inclusive, innovative, and evidence-based teaching practices in economics. | inclusive, innovative, evidence-based, teaching practices | Ongoing | Guidance | |
Making Disability Part of the Conversation: Combatting Inaccessible Spaces and Logics | Rick Godden, Anne-Marie Womack | Article on inclusive/accessible teaching methods, taking account of disabilities. | Accessibility, | May-16 | Article |
