A Exploration for the Economic Literacy of 6th Grade Students

• Main Authors: Yueh-hong Lee, 李岳鴻
• Other Authors: Huan-Wen Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34231132131225634799

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 資訊教育研究所碩士班 === 93 === The main purpose of this research was to study the economic literacy of 6th grade students who had finished the related courses. The effect of the factors on the performance on the test of economic literacy was studied. The sample of this study was composed of 1073 6th graders. The three subcontents included in the test are production, consumption and managing finances, corresponding to the standard-based index 7-3-1, 7-3-2 and 7-3-3, respectively. IRT item parameters were calibrated using BILOGMG. The average P-value for the test was 0.59. The subcontent of production was the most difficult one. By contrast, the subcontent of managing finances was the easiest one. The correlation coefficients between the scores on the test and social studies was 0.57 and the value was statistically significant. In the study, the items were divided into two groups and the samples were divided into three levels. The main source of difficulty includes the degree of the familiarity with the context presented, the abstractness of the descriptions and the amount of information contained in the items. The average P-values for level 1, 2, and 3 students were 0.35, 0.57, and 0.70, respectively. All subjects samples had poor performance on the economic concepts of the division of labor, specialization and market. Different regions, gender, vocation, channels of obtaining economic information, amount of financial tools and the use of accounting result in significant differences in the performance on the test. The results from multiple regression analysis indicated that region, amount of financial tools and the use of accounting significantly accounted for 11.9% of variations of the test score. The results of the research suggested that parents can build an economic learning environment for children and encourage them to use economic media actively so as to increase the students’ ability of the economic literacy.