Jack Soper: A Pioneer in Economic Education

J.R. Clark, Joshua Hall and Ashley Harrison
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J.R. Clark: The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Ashley Harrison: The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

No 15-31, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: John “Jack†Soper passed away on August 9, 2013. A prolific researcher who retired as the John J. Kahl Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at John Carroll University, Soper was a leading light in the field of economic education. His scholarship in the 1970s and 1980splayed a very important role in establishing the field. In this educational note, we summarize and highlight his contributions to the measurement of economic literacy and the modelling of student learning in the collegiate and precollege classrooms.

Keywords: economic education; private enterprise; education production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 A21 A22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2015-07
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