Using the Crossword Puzzle Exercise in Introductory Microeconomics to Accelerate Business Student Learning

Abstract

The authors propose using crossword puzzles for the purpose of assisting business students in their efforts to learn economics. The exercise provides students with a lively, creative, and challenging learning method. The authors developed an experiment to test whether the use of a crossword puzzle exercise would accelerate business student learning of basic economics vocabulary and terminology in undergraduate classes. The findings revealed that working crossword puzzles can help students build and maintain an introductory microeconomics vocabulary. Test results show that crossword puzzles do in fact aid student learning of microeconomics terms and do improve their grades on quizzes.

Keywords:

• crossword puzzles
• interactive learning
• microeconomics terms
• study guide