Consumer education's role in business education should attempt to provide students with consumer understandings and skills that will serve them personally both at home and on-the-job. Part of business education classroom activities should then center on consumer rights, needs, and problems. (BP)

Explains how instruction about the Consumer Price Index can help students learn about the effects of inflation, how to change patterns of consumption, and the effects of consumer choices. (SK)

The guidelines described here were developed to help novices to microcomputer hardware develop an increased understanding of the different types of microcomputer hardware available. (Author)

Business educators have an opportunity to help students develop skills and acquire knowledge necessary to become rational consumers. Involving students is more effective than using lectures--it encourages the practice of rational decision making. (JOW)

Describes a course for use in basic business and consumer economics that can be delivered by computer. The lessons merge economic concepts and consumer economics principles, resulting in a conceptual approach to basic business and consumer economics education. (JOW)

There is little doubt at Minnetonka High School that the integrated personal law and consumer problems course is effective. The areas studied promote variety, concentration on vital matters, and student interest in the business department as a source of general education. (Author)

From the experience of the Illinois Consumer Education Association, it appears that sonsumer educators who want to promote consumer education in their State can find no more appropriate vehicle than a State consumer education association. (Author)

Offers guidelines for the development of a sequential college consumer education curriculum designed to help students develop competencies needed to assume roles of leadership as consumer advocates. Included are five recommended topics of study, six cognitive learner behaviors, and guidelines for the selection of activities. (SH)

Discusses research that looked at how people react to consumer issues and governmental policy. Provides findings, implications, and teaching suggestions for business teachers to enhance their classroom performance. Includes the questionnaire. (JOW)