Using the ‘Test of Economic Competence’ with secondary school students in Hong Kong: Results and psychometric properties
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Keywords
Pre-college economic education; economic competence; IRT; economic literacy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A21 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Pre-college
- G53 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Financial Literacy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2021-08-09 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-FLE-2021-08-09 (Financial Literacy and Education)
- NEP-URE-2021-08-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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