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Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults : Status and Challenges.
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these young p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leverkusen-Opladen :
Barbara Budrich Publishers,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults; Contents; Editorial: Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults
- Status and Challenges; Section I: Financial Literacy; 1 Towards a Comprehensive Financial Literacy Framework: Voices from Stakeholders in European Vocational Education and Training; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Existing Conceptualisations of Financial Literacy; 1.3 A Holistic Approach to Financial Literacy: A Four-Facet-Framework; 1.4 Method; 1.5 Results; 1.6 Conclusions and Outlook; 2 Secondary School Students' Understanding of the Financial System.
- 2.1 Introduction2.2 Financial Literacy: Definitions and Evidence; 2.3 Method; 2.4 Results; 2.5 Conclusions; 3 Analysis of Banks' Online Information Regarding Mortgages as a Basis for Financially Literate Decision-Making in First-Time Homebuying; 3.1 Background and Aim; 3.2 Financial Literacy in the Context of Homebuying; 3.3 Method; 3.4 Results; 3.5 Summary, Discussion and Outlook; 4 Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior among Young Adults in the United States; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Literature Review; 4.3 Data Sample and Measures; 4.4 Financial Literacy of Young Adults.
- 4.5 Some Financial Behaviors of Young Adults4.6 Credit Card Behaviors and Financial Literacy; 4.7 Other Financial Behaviors and Financial Literacy; 4.8 Conclusion; Section II: Economic Competence; 5 Learners' Economic Competence in Switzerland: Conceptual Foundations and Considerations for Measurement; 5.1 Preamble; 5.2 Economic Education in Initial Commercial Apprenticeship in Switzerland; 5.3 Modelling of Economic Competence in LINCA; 5.4 Work and Research on Economic-civic Competence; 5.5 Measurement of Economic Competence in LINCA.
- 6 Effects of Students Sociocultural Background on Economic Competencies in Upper Secondary Education6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Theoretical and Empirical Background; 6.3 Research questions; 6.4 Method; 6.5 Findings; 6.6 Summary and Discussion; 7 Facing Commercial Competence: Modeling Domain-Linked and Domain-Specific Competence as Key Elements of Vocational Development; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Theoretical Conception of Vocational Competence; 7.3 Analysis of Contents in the Commercial Domain: Baseline for Item and Test Development; 7.4 Empirical Modeling of Domain-linked and Domain specific Competence.
- 7.5 Conclusions8 Opportunity Recognition as Part of Intrapreneurship Competence
- An Analysis of Exam Essays of German Industrial Clerks; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Concepts of Intrapreneurship and Opportunity Recognition; 8.3 Research Questions and Methods; 8.4 Results and Interpretation; 8.5 Summary, Limitations and Prospect; 9 Increasing Heterogeneity in Students' Prior Economic Content Knowledge
- Impact on and Implications for Teaching in Higher Education; 9.1 Heterogeneous Cognitive Preconditions
- a Challenge for Teaching in Higher Education; 9.2 Assessment Design and Test Instrument.