A social simulation game, Consumer, was used to study the effectiveness of simulation in teaching facts about: (1) installment buying; (2) how to compare available sources of credit; and (3) how to recognize the best credit contract. The entire twelfth grade at one high school participated in the study. Ten class sections were assigned to…

The document is a catalog of behavioral objectives organized by units of instruction in home economics and consumer education, covering the topics consumption of goods and services, individual development in the family, cultural development in the family, and management in the family. Each of the 22 units contains an outline of the content, a goal…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade six. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is bound in a spiral binder and illustrated with drawings. It is divided into five "strands" or topics: Physical Health; Sociological Health Problems; Mental Health; Environmental and Community Health; and Education for Survival. There is…

Presented by the American Foundation for the Blind are background information and a policy statement on consumer participation in the area of services for the blind. Noted is past significant leadership blind persons have manifested in surmounting physical, social, and economic problems. Considered are ways to make known the consumer's point of…

In testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee the author reiterates charges he made in his original testimony to that committee in 1970. He states that food advertisements on television aimed at children are misleading and that the foods advertised are nutritionally worthless. He cites a study that showed that the boxes in which the cereal was…

A series of five questions, related to a specific example, outlines the process of applying mathematics to real-life problems. These include needed information, translation, assumptions, solution, and generalizations. (MP)

Discusses the four-year-old Health Education Project (HEP) established at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. Notes the use of bilingual, community-oriented videotapes as teaching tools to inform consumers about critical health care information and explores the use of these tapes with health education discussion groups.…

There are a lot of things you'll need to find out before taking the plunge into postsecondary education with at least some assurance of getting what you expect to get. (Editor)

This study found that industrial arts students do not acquire unique consumer information compared to non-industrial arts students. But the achievement in consumer education of Spanish-speaking industrial arts students was enhanced by using bilingual instructional materials. (SK)

Policy development often requires resolving conflicting opinions through compromise. The 1976 legislation for consumer and homemaking education exemplifies how differing thoughts can be incorporated into a single policy. Lessons learned by home economics educators as they worked with members of Congress can be used by other vocational educators in…

Concludes that there is no detectable carry over from reading of the high school newspaper to the use of the commercial press, thus raising doubts about the underlying assumptions of the Newspaper in the Classroom program. (RB)

Discusses how and where consumers may go for assistance and information when purchasing products or when seeking redress for an unsatisfactory item. (Editor)

Article contains class activities based on the entire consumer economics series. (GB)

The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer economics and law course at Taft High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. The relevance of consumer education is commented on. A bibliography of resource materials is provided. (RM)

Author suggests several student-centered activities using toys to introduce children to consumerism. (GB)