Financial Fitness for Life Examiner's Manual Grades 35 Author:National Council on Economic Education Are your students 'making the grade' when it comes to your personal finance curriculum? Now it's easy to find out with these inexpensive, nationally normed personal finance assessments... plus you'll make sure your students are top performers. These assessments can be used with Financial Fitness for Life or any other curriculum materials you're ... more »using to teach personal finance. You'll measure your students' progress in four key areas of personal finance: earning an income, saving, spending and credit, and money management. These personal finance assessments are ideal for pre-tests, post tests or an end of semester exam. Plus, there are assessments at all grade levels: upper elementary school, middle school and high school. In addition, the test booklets are reusable, so these assessments are a small investment for years of reusable personal finance exams and tests. If you're using Financial Fitness for Life, you can tie these assessments into all four personal finance themes, or you can administer a mini-test that includes one or more themes. If you're using another personal finance curriculum, you'll find a wealth of exam questions that are easily customizable to meet your needs. As a pre-test you'll get an accurate snapshot of your students' knowledge, so you can tweak your class time to optimize weak areas. You can also use the pretest to create benchmarks for later testing. You'll also enjoy the flexibility of these personal finance assessments. Because they are customizable, you can address the various components of your curriculum with different test and exam questions, and then obtain comparable results across student groups or even classes.Also Available:Financial Fitness for Life: Examiner's Manual - Grades 6-8 - ISBN 1561835277
Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Student Workouts - ISBN 1561835439The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy. Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include: - Establishing and building credit - Managing personal finances - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level - Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.« less