The economic socialization of elementary school children : their experiences and understanding
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Paula Luckadoo Kearney (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Kay Edwards
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the economic socialization of elementary school children relative to their economic experiences and their understanding of selected economic concepts, and to investigate the relationship of several demographic variables to economic learning. A systematic, stratified random sample of seventy-two subjects was drawn from all pupils enrolled during the 1972-73 school year in the public elementary schools of Greensboro, North Carolina. Each of the six grade levels was represented by twelve subjects equally distributed between boys and girls and white and non-white subjects. The interview schedule, administered individually to each subject by the investigator, consisted of a fifteen-item questionnaire on economic experiences and an oral vocabulary measure of economic understanding. Demographic data were obtained from the subjects' permanent school records. Subject responses were tabulated for the total sample and for several subgroups. Scales of Economic Experience and Economic Understanding were constructed by the internal consistency method. Relationships between these measures and the independent variables of grade level, age, sex, race, and socio-economic status were measured by both the Pearson correlation technique and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The economic socialization of elementary school children : their experiences and understanding
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- Language: English
- Date: 1973