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Peer reviewedDavid, Carol – Social Studies, 1989
Reports on a comparative study of two fifth-grade classes (Louisville, Kentucky) whose members learned economic principles through the establishment of a classroom grocery store. Provides a review of the literature relating to economic education and simulations, discusses the actual classroom instruction, and describes the instrument used to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Consumer Education
Peer reviewedBerti, Anna Emilia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1993
Reports on a study of 43 Italian fifth-graders about their understanding of the functions of banks and the role of monetary interest in banking before and after a lesson on banking. Finds that most children could speak correctly about both deposit and loan interest and their relative amounts after the lesson. (CFR)
Descriptors: Banking, Banking Vocabulary, Business Education, Class Activities
Download full textLaney, James D.; And Others – 1991
This study applied brain lateralization research and a model of generative teaching and learning to economic education. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of verbal-only, imagery-only, and integrated (verbal-to-imaginal) strategies on fifth graders' proclivity to use economic reasoning (i.e. cost-benefit analysis) in personal…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making Skills, Economic Factors
