This study tested the effectiveness of teaching concepts in high school economics first by verbal instruction and then by graphs or other imagery. Eighty-three high school seniors were taught by the method above, by reversing the order of that method, and by verbal instruction only. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Presents a model for the implementation of state-mandated economics education by providing a basic framework for delivering effective economics education programs to high school economics instructors. (Author)

This study compares the effects of two teacher training programs designed to emphasize one of two forms of behavior modification in teaching economics to fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pupils. (DMT)

Conducted "Mini-Society," an experience-based economics instructional program with 938 children in grades three through six. Measured participants' perceptions of entrepreneurship, occupational stereotyping, and sex differences in risk-taking, persistence, and economic success. During the program, no sex differences occurred in the…

Study showed that experience-based economic education at the high school level, as opposed to the traditionally watered-down approach, results in the transfer of economic reasoning/thinking to everyday decision making. (RM)

Participation in a college-level economics course appeared to be a very important predictor of economic cognition and of economic reasoning with respect to students' personal monetary decisions. Course participation was not a strong factor in economic reasoning with respect to time-allocation decisions. (RM)

Suggests that economic literacy will be fostered if economic concepts such as scarcity, cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, production, consumption, and money and barter are introduced to elementary school children and included in the social studies curriculum in increasingly complex fashion throughout high school. Ways of helping teachers…

The main purpose of the study was to ascertain whether the use of cost-benefit analysis by children tends to be age-related, a function of instructional mediation, both, or neither. The subjects included 220 first, second, third, and fourth graders ranging in age from six to nine years. One hundred and fourteen subjects were assigned to the…

Elementary children of all ability levels benefited from participating in the Mini-Society, which is a highly individualized economics education program. Significant gains in terms of economic decision making, attitude toward school, and attitude toward learning were manifested by low, middle, and high ability youngsters. (RM)

Describes a study designed to determine the level of sophistication at which 4th graders would learn concepts of economics when a fable-simulation instructional method was used. Also ethnic and sex differences in learning economic concepts were investigated. (DP)

In the Mini-Society program intermediate grade students create their own microcosmic version of an adult economy. This study showed that in addition to increasing students' economic understanding, Mini-Society also improves the students' mathematical reasoning. (RM)

Maintains that economics educators must provide more training to K-6 teachers, and that this training must model, not just talk about, effective teaching practices. Argues that good instructional practices for "at-risk" children are the same as those for others. (JDH)

Describes a teacher-guided program called Kinder-Economy that introduces basic economic concepts to children in the primary grades through action, simulation and participation emphasizing decision-making concepts on economics related to the real world; also reports on an investigation of pupils' mastery of kinder-economy concepts. (BF/JH)

It is believed that if primary grade children are exposed to the fundamentals of economics, they will be better able to comprehend and apply the principles in later years. This paper describes an inservice economics education training institute for elementary school teachers that integrates the following strategies: (1) an experienced-based…