This one-page consumer education materials evaluation form has been developed as a checklist for developers and users of business-sponsored educational materials. Criteria listed include issues such as target audience, design, and usability as well as objectivity and how the business sponsor is identified. The form is intended to prevent…

This pamphlet presents guidelines that have been developed to help business sponsors make the most effective use of available resources in the development of materials for consumer education and information to help consumers become better decision makers in the marketplace and to become more participatory citizens. The guide outlines the steps…

The author suggests that educators are not the consumers of educational materials and "raises the case for the learner as consumer through developmental as well as summative evaluation of materials." (Editor/AK)

In a New Zealand community, 200 households made commitment to recycle and 201 did not; 198 were asked to pay for recycling bins, 203 were not. A control group received only recycling information. Verbal commitment significantly increased participation. Difficulties in administering the financial incentive made it impossible to determine effect on…

Wisconsin K-12 family and consumer education teachers implemented the Family, Food, and Society Resource Guide in their classrooms. Feedback was gathered from teachers who had used or were using the modules. Findings indicated the following: the family narrative section was readable, understandable, and essential; students reacted well to modules…

The project sought to determine the content and form of materials that would enable parents of children with disabilities to become informed critical consumers of respite services. Project activities included establishment and utilization of a national advisory panel; an indepth review of the literature on family supports, systems change, and…

Through a series of five tests, a slide-tape instructional presentation on the identification of beef quality was developed. It was determined that the slide-tape instruction can enable consumers to score more accurately characteristics of raw beef in relation to the characteristics of cooked beef. (Editor/TA)

Describes a Georgia state project which developed ten 15-minute television programs with teachers guides, thirty slide-tape presentations, and twenty learning modules for use in teaching consumer and family life skills to students in area vocational technical schools and to adults in local communities. (JT)

To be effective for student self-use, consumer education learning activity packages (LAPS) should include most of the following: instructional set materials, diagnostic materials, behavioral objectives, sequenced learning activities, checkpoints, a student self-test, and a teacher test. (Author)

The Consumer Education Department, which has existed within the J.C. Penney Company for over fifty years, supports its stores in local communities by providing a service to educators. This service consists of both the development of original educational materials and the delivery of inservice programs to local educators. To continue to respond to…

An approach to implementing competency-based education programs using a combination of self-instructional modules, individualized management processes, and group instructional techniques was designed and used for a comprehensive consumer education program incorporated into various high school business education programs. This instructional…

The Norfolk, Virginia, Public Schools developed and implemented an innovative consumer and homemaking program for grades 6-8 based on the developmental characteristics of middle school children. This project was conducted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, Public Law 98-524. A committee of middle school teachers developed the…

A series of teacher workshops was held at 10 locations throughout Texas for the purpose of disseminating a set of self-contained modules on consumer skills for industrial arts students. At the individual workshops, each teacher was given up to 20 copies of each of the bilingual modules to enhance the possibility that they would be used in…

The 110 research reports, papers, and other references written primarily during 1966-69 were reviewed under these categories: (1) Consumer Education, (2) Disadvantaged, (3) Homemaking, (4) Teacher Education, and (5) Research Methodology. Reasons for the lack of consumer education research may be that the renewed emphasis has taken place in the…

This consumer education module is designed to help mentally retarded persons take charge of their lives as consumers. An introductory section contains information on the development of these learning materials. Following the introductory section, four units, each of which is designed to be presented in a five-hour session, are provided. The first…