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Measuring Economic Competence of Youth with a Short Scale

We present a 12-item scale measuring the cognitive component of economic competence and document the psychometric properties of the scale. Using a data set with more than 12,000 secondary school students in Germany, the scale shows high discriminatory power and covers a wide range of ability levels. Analyses of `Differential Item Functioning´ show no item bias across key demographic characteristics, and scores show meaningful associations with scores obtained from adjacent test instruments. Student-level correlates mirror estimates documented in earlier literature on economic and financial literacy as well as results relying on a more extensive scale with over 30 items. The presented short scale enables researchers and practitioners to efficiently measure economic competence of youth.

Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Pre-college
Analysis of Education
Thema
economic competence
economic literacy
IRT
measurement

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Oberrauch, Luis
Kaiser, Tim
Seeber, Günther
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Kiel, Hamburg
(wann)
2022

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Oberrauch, Luis
  • Kaiser, Tim
  • Seeber, Günther
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2022

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