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- Title
ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCIAL FITNESS FOR LIFE IN EASTERN KENTUCKY<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Harter, Cynthia L.; Harter, John F. R.
- Abstract
In 2005, the Center for Economic Education at Eastern Kentucky University partnered with Eastern Kentucky University and the Kentucky Council on Economic Education to test the effectiveness of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) curriculum, Financial Fitness for Life (FFFL), in an underprivileged region of Kentucky. We recruited local teachers at three different levels to teach the curriculum to their students and used a test instrument developed by NCEE to measure learning. We find that the use of FFFL does increase student performance on a posttest assessment when compared with a pretest of those same students. When demographic statistics are added, both an OLS regression and an analysis-of-variance model comparing test results from a control group when FFFL is not used and the test group when the curriculum is used show an increase in financial literacy when using FFFL. Comparing the test group to a subset of the control group that used materials other than FFFL to teach financial concepts also shows an increase in financial literacy for the FFFL group instead of whatever other curricula were used.
- Subjects
EASTERN Kentucky University; EDUCATION; COURSE content (Education); SOCIAL learning; LITERACY
- Publication
Journal of Applied Economics & Policy, 2009, Vol 28, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0734-4058
- Publication type
Article