International Co-operation Partners

Michio Yamaoka & Tadayoshi Asano (Japan)

Dr. Michio Yamaoka is ex-Dean and Professor at Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies and Executive Director at Waseda Research Institute for New Zealand in Waseda University. He is also president of the Japan Society for New Zealand and ex-president of Japan Society for Economic Education. His research fields are Asia-Pacific studies and economic education, and his recent research themes have been historical review of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), international comparative study of economic and personal financial education, and comprehensive study of New Zealand.Professor Yamaoka received International Award from National Council on Economic Education (now, Council for Economic Education) in 2004 for his outstanding contributions to economic education in Japan.

Tadayoshi Asano is an associate professor of economics at the Department of Career and Communication, Yamamura Gakuen College. He received his master’s degree in economics by the study of international economics from Waseda University in 1979, and then engaged himself in the research in East-West relations in the postwar period, Japan’s comprehensive security policy, international telecommunication systems, and country risks in the Middle-East for the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, while studying international relations. He has worked at the college since 1989, and made surveys in Japan using standardized assessment tests of economics and personal finance together with Dr. Yamaoka. His research fields are economics, economic education, and higher education research. *Gakuen means academy.

Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (CENEVAL)

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Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (CENEVAL)

The Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior, A.C. (Ceneval) is a non-profit organization that since 1994 offers assessments of schools, universities, businesses, education authorities, professional associations and other private or federal institutions in Mexico. The institute’s focus lies on the development and application of instruments for measuring performances. Its task is to provide reliable information on the level of knowledge that employees/students/pupils reach on different education levels.

Council for Economic Education (CEE)

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Council for Economic Education (CEE)

William B. Walstad is head of the John T. and Mable M. Hay Chair of Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Apart from entrepreneurship, his research interest lies mostly in optimizing teaching and learning of Economics and the associated attitudes, convictions and knowledge of teachers and students. He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Education and developer of the different economic tests, among others the “Test of Economic Literacy (TEL)“ which was adapted by Klaus Beck and Volker Krumm and is known as the “Wirtschaftskundlicher Bildungstest (WBT )“.