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Mielitz, Katherine S.; MacDonald, Maurice; Lurtz, Meghaan – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2018
We obtained 180 pre- and post-test surveys to investigate how an established financial literacy program may have increased financial knowledge of residents in a work release program in Augusta, Georgia. Paired t tests analyzed changes in subjective and objective financial knowledge, understanding of banking and credit, and financial attitudes. OLS…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Released Time
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Goetz, Joseph W.; Mimura, Yoko; Desai, Miti P.; Cude, Brenda J. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2008
The current study explored differences in financial behaviors between college students in Georgia who retained the merit-based HOPE Scholarship and those who lost it. Logistic regression was used to analyze data from a sample of 557 undergraduate students from a large southeastern university. Students who initially had HOPE Scholarships but lost…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Merit Scholarships, Regression (Statistics), Debt (Financial)
Trombley, William, Ed. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The primary purpose of "National CrossTalk" is to stimulate informed discussion and debate of higher education issues. This issue contains the following articles: (1) The Credit Crisis Goes to College: Upheaval in the Student-Loan Business Leaves Students and Parents Scrambling (Susan C. Thomson); (2) The Engaged University: Northern…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Credit (Finance), Money Management
Valentine, Tom, Ed.; Sandlin, Jenny, Ed. – Beyond Basic Skills, 1996
This document, which was written for adult educators in Georgia, offers instructional plans and practical strategies for helping students in adult literacy, adult basic education (ABE), General Educational Development, and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs understand the credit traps that can hurt them. The document begins with a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Classroom Techniques