Economics Students Research Articles

The Importance of Educational Technologies in Economics Classroom: The Nigeria Perspective

The paper centered on various educational technologies that can be used in the teaching and learning of Economics. With the use of educational technologies such as the Google Classroom application, YouTube videos, virtual reality, Socrative, Edmodo, Kahoot, Classdojo, and blockchain technology, students of Economics will find it easy and convenient to acquire knowledge in an Economics classroom. Nigerian teachers of Economics should understand the significance of utilizing various educational technologies in teaching various Economic concepts. Topics like demand, supply, production costs, and others can be well explained through the use of various educational technologies. Furthermore, in the event of a pandemic outbreak, educational technologies can be used to prevent virus spread by ensuring that students join the online classroom from their rooms.

Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on the grades of university education: A case study with economics students

COVID-19 has been one of the major incidents in the global university education system in recent years. Its influence and effects on education are still difficult to determine today. Both students and teachers have had to change their study and work routines and disciplines, in many cases lacking the necessary infrastructure to adapt to online learning. Students had to start a new academic year with a complete return to face-to-face teaching without having overcome, in many cases, the incidence of online learning. This study, through 167 responses to a survey addressed to economics students at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, aims to analyse the causes of an improvement or a worsening of the academic performance of university students in the return to normality after having gone through COVID-19's restrictions. The results obtained show that students, students who attend tutorials and those who have evaluated online teaching positively, are the ones who have most improved their performance in the return to face-to-face teaching. And those who have suffered the physical and psychological consequences of COVID and those with less infrastructure and income have worsened their results.

Метод анализа иерархий как инструмент совершенствования балльно-рейтинговой системы оценки результатов обучения студентов высших учебных заведений по экономическим направлениям подготовки

In the article, the author suggests to integrate of the resources of hierarchy analysis method and the rating system into educational process for educational evaluation of the students of economics. An example of calculating knowledge assessment indicators with hierarchy method for students trained in Management is considered. Application of hierarchy analysis method is possible in any educational organizations for courses in traditional, hybrid or distance learning. For academic disciplines rating system for assessing the level of achievements with a variety of indicators of varying degrees of significance can be used. Rating system is one of the most common methods used in higher education institutions to evaluate student learning outcomes. Implementing this approach in educational process, the teacher solves multi-criteria task that allows systematic analysing available data referring to students’ learning outcomes and obtaining the final result of evaluating the student's work during the academic semester.

The role of technology parks in economic growth – the perspective of students of economics

Purpose: The article aims to assess the knowledge and interest in the offer of technology parks by students of faculties offering theoretical and practical knowledge about starting and running a business. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire plus the Pearson correlation coefficient and the T-Czuprow dependence coefficient were used to examine the relationship between the study variables. Findings: Students are well acquainted with the offer of technology parks, while not sufficiently aware that these entities can provide them with support at the stage of setting up or developing their business activity. Practical implications: Intensifying activities promoting the activities of the surveyed institutions at universities could activate entrepreneurial thinking and the involvement of academic youth. Originality/value: The article highlights the important role of technology parks in supporting young entrepreneurs, which makes it a valuable source of information for those interested in starting their own businesses. Keywords: technology parks, entrepreneurship, business, students, academic entrepreneurship. Category of the paper: research paper.

ЦИФРОВАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА: ПРОРЫВ В БУДУЩЕЕ

The article is devoted to the digital economy as the most dynamic area of technological innovation in the modern world. The task is to show that the digital economy brings huge benefits to businesses, individual organizations and the economy as a whole. However, there are many serious problems that need to be solved in order to fully realize this potential. For example, there is a digital divide, which means unequal access to digital technologies by different groups of the population. At the same time, the growing dependence on digital technologies makes individual organizations and entire governments vulnerable to cyber attacks and leaks of personal data, which means that cybersecurity is coming to the fore. It is shown that, taking into account the prompt resolution of problems, the digital economy will provide significant opportunities: a tremendous potential for innovation and entrepreneurship opens up. Digital technologies create new markets and make new business models available. It is concluded that it is the digital economy that is able to multiply the efficiency and productivity of labor, create new jobs, provide wider access to education and healthcare, and make a real breakthrough into the future for our country. The article uses materials from a number of prominent scientists and independent researchers. The article may be useful for economics students and university professors interested in the problems of the digital economy.The article uses materials from a number of prominent scientists and independent researchers. The article may be useful for economics students and university professors interested in the problems of the digital economy.

Case teaching method for educating economic students - A Case Study of local tourism development and government expenditure in Vietnam

Case teaching method for educating economic students - A Case Study of local tourism development and government expenditure in Vietnam

Enhancing Entrepreneurial Skills in Foods and Nutrition through Creativity and Critical Thinking among Tertiary Institution Students in Lagos State, Nigeria

The research focused on how university students in Lagos State may improve their entrepreneurship abilities through creativity and critical thinking. Survey research design was used. The study's population was 114, which included 14 Home Economics teachers teaching Food and Nutrition courses, 40 Senior Staff of Nigeria's Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency, and 60 Home Economics students. There was no sampling since the population was small. For data gathering, a questionnaire was employed. The data were examined using mean and standard deviation. Findings revealed that in-service training for lecturers, proper integration of practical with theory in teaching foods and nutrition, and curriculum review in foods and nutrition programs to instil entrepreneurial skills that will meet the needs of students, among others. The difficulties in acquiring entrepreneurial skills via creative and critical learning included the fact that most higher institutions do not have foods and nutrition laboratories, and there are few vocational foods and nutrition specialists. Findings also revealed that arousing attention and retention among university students by presenting learning objectives through qualified lecturers, facilitating students' awareness of the expected learning outcomes, and providing learners feedback on exercises and activities carried out in the food laboratories are ways of reducing challenges to enhancing entrepreneurial skills through creativity and critical thinking. The recommendation includes that there should be regular training and re-training programs for Food and Nutrition teachers in the form of seminars and workshops.

Examining young people’s awareness of electricity consumption during the energy crisis from the perspective of economics students in Hungary

Examining young people’s awareness of electricity consumption during the energy crisis from the perspective of economics students in Hungary

The Development of Economics Students' Lexical Competence in the Framework of Renewable Energy Sources Issues

The Development of Economics Students' Lexical Competence in the Framework of Renewable Energy Sources Issues

Measuring university students' ability to recognize argument structures and fallacies.

Argumentation is crucial for all academic disciplines. Nevertheless, a lack of argumentation skills among students is evident. Two core aspects of argumentation are the recognition of argument structures (e.g., backing up claims with premises, according to the Toulmin model) and the recognition of fallacies. As both aspects may be related to content knowledge, students studying different subjects might exhibit different argumentation skills depending on whether the content is drawn from their own or from a foreign subject. Therefore, we developed an instrument to measure the recognition of both argument structures and fallacies among the groups of preservice teachers and business economics students in both their respective domains (pedagogy and economics), and a neutral domain (sustainability). For the recognition of fallacies, we distinguished between congruent and incongruent fallacies. In congruent fallacies, the two aspects of argument quality, i.e., deductive validity and inductive strength, provide converging evidence against high argument quality. In incongruent fallacies, these two aspects diverge. Based on dual process theories, we expected to observe differences in the recognition of congruent and incongruent fallacies. We investigated whether these two abilities are domain-specific and whether the recognition of fallacies depends on the congruence of two aspects of argument quality. 267 preservice teachers and 56 business economics students participated in the study. For the recognition of argument structures, participants assigned the five statements constituting one argument to the corresponding component according to the Toulmin model. For the recognition of fallacies, we created arguments and incorporated a common fallacy into some of them: formal fallacy, overgeneralization, irrelevance, or circularity. Participants rated whether the argument was cogent or not, which was followed by a brief justification. Domain specificity could not be found for either of both abilities. For the recognition of fallacies, two dimensions were found: a congruent dimension (formal fallacies and overgeneralizations) and an incongruent dimension (irrelevance and circularity). The instrument measures the recognition of both argument structures and fallacies in these two groups across domains. The recognition of fallacies differs depending on whether the deductive validity and the inductive strength of the argument are equally indicative of argument quality or not.

Are Economics Students Biased Against Female Teachers? Evidence from a Randomized, Double-Blind Natural Field Experiment

Are Economics Students Biased Against Female Teachers? Evidence from a Randomized, Double-Blind Natural Field Experiment

PENGARUH SOFT SKILL DAN PENGALAMAN MAGANG KERJA TERHADAP KESIAPAN KERJA MAHASISWA MELALUI MOTIVASI KERJA SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING (STUDI KASUS PADA MAHASISWA FEB UNIVERSITAS PGRI SEMARANG)

The purpose of this study was to examine the independent variables, namely soft skills and work experience on the dependent variable of work readiness through work motivation as a mediating variable. The population in this study was students in the 2018 Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) Department of PGRI Semarang University, which amounted to 167 people. Sampling in this study used a saturated sample. The sample in this study were all students of economics and business class 2018, totaling 167 people. Collecting data in this study using a questionnaire. The analytical method used is the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with Smart PLS 3.2.9 analysis tool. The results showed that the research model had met the validity and reliability of the construct on the SEM assumption with Smart PLS 3.2.9 so that the model was declared feasible. Based on data analysis, it can be concluded that: 1) Soft skills and work readiness of students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University Semarang, 2) Internship experience and work readiness of students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University Semarang, 3) Work motivation and work readiness of students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University Semarang, 4) Soft skills and Work Motivation of Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University of Semarang, 5) Internship experience and work motivation of students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University Semarang, 6) Indirect influence of soft skills on work readiness of Faculty Students Economics and Business PGRI Semarang University through work motivation, 7) Internship experience and work readiness Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, PGRI University Semarang through work motivation

The Environmental Accounting Evolution: A Literature Review and Future Directions


 
 
 
 
 The aim of this article is to track the trending topics in the field study of environmental accounting research. The data was analyzed by using the library study method. The data was collected from scopus database by searching the systematic keyword that related with the environmental accounting literature on the search engine. This study found that the article that discussed about the environmental accounting was various and mostly concern on the issue about carbon accounting, water accounting, and biodiversity accounting as well as the measurement stages of extinction accounting. The author also found there was some theory which fit with the environmental accounting research that mainly discussed about the evolution of modern accounting and business methods that now more concerned with the social and environmental accounting. This research had implication for the accounting thinkers as well as the accounting and economic students, because the author did not only discuss about the literature review of environmental accounting but also the future direction of the environmental accounting that could become a new novelty for the future
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Minat Mahasiswa Menabung di Bank Mini Syariah Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Auliaurrasyidin Tembilahan

This research is motivated by the number of Islamic economics students as many as 216 or about 57% for the 2017-2020 class who save at Mini Syariah Banks, and around 43% who have not saved at Mini Syariah Banks. To find out the interest of Islamic Economics Students in saving at Mini Syariah Banks, the researchers distributed questionnaires to Islamic economics students to find out the students' interest in Islamic Mini Banks. The purpose of this study was to determine the interest in saving students of the Islamic economics study program at the Mini Syariah Bank, Auliaurrasyidin Tembilahan Islamic High School. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The results of the questionnaire research show that the interest of students of the Islamic Economics Study Program in Savings at Mini Syariah Banks, Islamic High School Auliaurrasyidin Tembilahan is in the percentage of "87.6%" with the category of "Very Good". Thus, it can be concluded that the interest of students of the Islamic economics study program in saving in Islamic mini banks is in the good category.

A Critical Review on New Structural Economic

New structural economics has become one of the most influential economic theories in China today. However, there are still many scholars and students in economics who could not understand the nature of its theoretical and analytical framework and policy recommendations, which make it necessary to describe and evaluate it objectively. This paper investigates the object of study, analytical framework and policy theory of new structural economics, which, in terms of object of study and analytical framework, lies in an intermediary form. in the transition from traditional neoclassical economics to new classical economics by Xiaokai Yang. Since the function of the institutional environment in the analytical framework of new structural economics is not to determine the set of production structures, but to realize the optimal production structure determined by the structure of factor endowment structure through transaction costs, in terms of policy practice, new structural economics could only explain the rapid growth rate of China’s reform. and opening up for 40 years, and cannot identify when China should again undergo an institutional transformation in order to achieve the timing of an advanced economy eventually.

Inaugural Address

Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Rashid Amjad, President, Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Dr G. M. Arif, Secretary Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is indeed a privilege and honour to address this distinguished gathering of economists and social scientists. Over the years the Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has become one of the leading events on the calendar of meetings where experts from various disciplines discuss cutting edge issues that confront developing economies in general and Pakistan’s economy in particular. I want to especially congratulate the Society and the President on completing 25 years as it celebrates its Silver Jubilee. I am very happy that the founding President, Prof. Dr Nawab Haider Naqvi is with us today and that some of the past Presidents are also present. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the home of the Society, also needs to be congratulated for holding such conferences on an annual and regular basis. I am very happy that this meeting as in the past is being attended by internationally acclaimed economists and academics from both within and outside the country. I am especially heartened to see that students of economics from all over Pakistan have been especially invited to attend this meeting.

Inaugural Address

Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Rashid Amjad, President, Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is indeed a privilege and honour to address this distinguished gathering of economists. I am very happy that this meeting is being attended by internationally acclaimed economists and academics from both within and outside the country. I am especially heartened to see that students of economics from all over Pakistan have been especially invited to attend this meeting. Over the years the Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has become one of the leading events on the calendar of meetings where experts from various disciplines discuss cutting edge issues that confront developing economies in general and Pakistan’s economy in particular. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics is to be congratulated for holding such conferences on an annual and regular basis. The President of the Society has mentioned that I have actively encouraged the participation of economic experts, academics and researchers in the policy planning process. I firmly believe that this interaction will lead to framing of economic policies that respond to our economic needs and lead to more sustainable and equitable economic growth. I will continue to involve our body of economists in formulating policies and thank you for your offer to work closely with our government. The theme of this year’s Meeting “Economic Sustainability in a Globalised World” is very timely and touches the very heart of the economic challenge we face at the global and national level. The world has witnessed a global financial meltdown which started in the USA but spread to other parts of the world, both developed and developing. This financial crisis has now hit the real economy, causing a massive decline in global manufacturing output and global trade which is the worst since the Great Depression in 1929. World output is projected to shrink in 2009 and world trade expected to decline markedly this year.

Economic Sustainability in a Globalised World (The Presidential Address)

Mr Prime Minister, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Chancellor PIDE, Minister for Planning and Development, Ministers, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 24th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. We are extremely grateful and honoured by the presence of the Prime Minister. On behalf of the members of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE), I would like to thank you, Sir, for having spared your precious time to grace this occasion. I would like also to especially thank our guests who have come from different parts of the country and from abroad to participate in the Conference. We are heartily pleased to see here today many students of Economics and other social sciences from different colleges and universities of Pakistan who are just as eager as regular members to understand our subject better. Let me join Dr Arif in especially welcoming Professor Yu Yongding, Professor John Mellor, Professor Siddiqur Rahman Osmani, and Dr Parvez Hasan, who will be delivering the Invited Lectures this year. At the outset, on behalf of all members of the PSDE, I would like to recognise the support and encouragement of the Prime Minister as Chairman of the Planning Commission to the initiative taken by the Deputy Chairman and his predecessor Mr Salman Faruqui to actively involve professional economists in Pakistan in the process of economic policy-making. The new Task Forces on critical economic concerns and the Advisory Panel of Economists to frame the short-run and medium-term policies by the Planning Commission are democracy’s gifts to the economists of Pakistan. Democracy encourages independent thinking, accommodates diverse viewpoints, and thus makes it possible to evolve a comprehensive policy for all.

Evaluation of Online Learning During COVID-19

This study aims to evaluate the effects of online learning during the pandemic on economics students at two different institutions, Diponegoro University and Tadulako University. Diponegoro University (UNDIP) represents universities in the West region, and Tadulako University (UNTAD) represents universities in the Eastern region of Indonesia. This study used descriptive qualitative analysis to describe the implementation of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic at the two different institutions. Based on the results of the analysis, students on both campuses use learning applications to carry out distance lectures. The obstacle that is often faced by students is that it is difficult to signal to be able to attend online lectures. Students also remain active in class, even though the learning is online.
 Keywords: Online learning; covid pandemic 19; UNDIP; UNTAD

Developing Communicative and Web Based-English Syllabus for Economics and Business Students

Although the English lecturers have created an English syllabus since they started to teach English based on Higher Education Curriculum, it still needs to cover the needs of economic students. This research aimed: 1) to determine the needs of English learning materials (e.g., English skills, English sub-skills, and topic and themes), develop the learning objectives of communicative and WEB based-English syllabus, and 2) measure the eligibility of communicative and WEB-Based English syllabus for students of Economics. This research was designed as a developmental research that involved thirty-three economic students, four English lecturers, four alumni, and two stakeholders. This research data was gathered from a set questionnaire, interview, and documentation. The results of this research revealed that the students of Economics need integrated English language skills. Then, the communicative approach used in designing the communicative syllabus focuses on communication as the organizing principle for teaching rather than mastering the grammatical structure. Moreover, from the experts' perspective, the communicative and WEB Based English Syllabus eligibility was in a very good category (97.08%). Students could use this developed syllabus to improve their English proficiency. It could optimally solve the problems of a non-existent English course syllabus for economics students' qualification to compete for jobs, the global market, and the ASEAN Economics Community. In conclusion, economic students need English learning syllabus and materials related to their disciplines, and the developed communicative and WEB-based syllabus has been suitable for the economic students' needs in improving their English proficiency.