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Moon, Russ – 1988
Since the emergence of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) there have been calls for improved methods of assessing economics. Oral assessment has been suggested as a possible technique and this study investigated whether it might be used to allow students to demonstrate achievement in GCSE economics. The empirical study compared…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Economics Education
Download full textEaston, Stanley E.; Ellerbruch, Lawrence W. – 1985
Data provided by the 1981-82 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were used to study the citizenship and social studies achievement of rural 13-year-olds. The NAEP extreme rural sample included 901 13-year-olds from schools in areas with less than 10,000 people and many farmers or farm workers in residence. School size in this sample…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Comparative Testing
Beck, Klaus; Krumm, Volker – 1989
The lack of a German language testing instrument for economic literacy has led to problems for researchers in German-speaking countries to establish the level of economic literacy in those countries. The translation of the 23rd edition (1987) of the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) into a German version, known as the Wirtschalfliche Bildung Test…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
