I don't know if I like doing an early assessment in Econ, but at my last two schools it has been compulsory.
I like to test 3 things:
Can they/are they willing to study? (I get them to prepare answers to these questions)
Can they apply knowledge to questions? (I give them a pack of MCQs to practice)
Can they write? (They plan it in advance using this)
Below is what I'd normally give them for #1 and #3, but I've had to take the #2 bit out because it used MCQs I'd bought. However, you could easily knock something together using selected questions from here.
Hi, great idea, do you know if there are answers to the MCQs available? Save me a bit of time working through them.