Arbeitspapier
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
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Englisch
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Pre-college
Analysis of Education
- Thema
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economic competence
economic literacy
IRT
measurement
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Oberrauch, Luis
Kaiser, Tim
Seeber, Günther
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Kiel, Hamburg
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Oberrauch, Luis
- Kaiser, Tim
- Seeber, Günther
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Entstanden
- 2022