The 15th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference
Welcome
The 15th Annual Australasian Teaching Economics Conference will be held in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 28-29 June 2010. The venue is the Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato (on Hillcrest Road). The deadline for registration has now been extended to 25 June.
The conference programme is now available. Further information on finding your way to the conference venue is also available on the Accommodation and Travel page.
The conference aims to enhance the quality of teaching and learning and promote the sharing of best practice within the economics discipline, by bringing together quality local and international speakers to share pedagogical research and advances in the teaching of economics at secondary and tertiary levels.
The theme for the 2010 conference is: "Frontiers in economics teaching".
Whilst papers relating to the conference theme are encouraged, the organisers welcome submission of papers concerning all aspects of economic education.
The two-day program will consist of contributed papers, with a keynote presentation from Peter Kennedy (Simon Fraser University). Peter is a top econometrician and associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, Economics Bulletin, and the Journal of Economics Education. His plenary address will be titled: "Common mistakes made in classroom research."
Abstract: In my twenty years editing the research section of the Journal of Economic Education I have been favorably impressed with the wide range of imaginative ideas for research based on classroom data. I have been unpleasantly surprised, however, by how often this research suffers from faulty logic or statistical blunders. This presentation will discuss several examples of these, with an eye to improving the quality of such research.
We hope you will be able to join us in Hamilton in June 2010!
Key Dates
| 31 March 2010 | Deadline for abstract submissions |
| 15 April 2010 | Notification of paper acceptance |
| 15 May 2010 | Early bird registration closes |
| 15 May 2010 | Deadline for submission of draft paper, for inclusion in conference proceedings |
| 25 June 2010 | Last day for registration (with extension) |
| 15 June 2010 | Deadline for submission of final paper, for inclusion in conference proceedings |
| 28 June 2010 | First day of conference / Conference dinner |
| 29 June 2010 | Second day of conference |
Conference sponsors
We aknowledge the support of:
- Department of Economics, University of Waikato
- Teaching Development Unit, University of Waikato
Conference organisers
The local organising committee for the ATEC 2010 conference comprises Dr Michael Cameron (University of Waikato) and Dr Steven Lim (University of Waikato).