We introduce a test of economic competence for German-speaking secondary school students and provide evidence from a large-scale assessment with 6,230 students from grades seven to ten. The article presents the development and psychometric properties of the scale, as well as an investigation of...

We present a 12-item scale measuring the cognitive component of economic competence and document the psychometric properties of the scale. Using a data set with more than 12,000 secondary school students in Germany, the scale shows high discriminatory power and covers a wide range of ability...

We administer an adapted version of the Test of Economic Competence (TEC) to a sample of secondary school students in Hong Kong and study the psychometric properties of the adapted scale relative to test statistics based on a sample of German secondary school students. The results indicate...

The ability to work with graphs is at the core of the economic domain and is also one of the central challenges for novices in the field. To accurately assess the graph competence of higher education students, we developed and tested an 18-item graph competence instrument with different...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden verschiedene Konstrukte finanzieller Bildung verglichen, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede herauszuarbeiten. Zum einen handelt es sich um das Verständnis von Financial Literacy, wie es von der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden verschiedene Konstrukte finanzieller Bildung verglichen, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede herauszuarbeiten. Zum einen handelt es sich um das Verständnis von Financial Literacy, wie es von der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...