Importance of Economic Literacy

The Authors: Dieter Kotte was born in Hamburg in 1956. Ph.D. from Hamburg University in International Comparative Education (1992). Associate Professor for Economics Education at the University of Technology, Dresden (1993-1995). Currently, International Consultant for Educational Measurement and Testing. Petra Lietz is Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business and Law at Central Queensland University, Australia, where she also lectures in Advanced Business Statistics. After her undergraduate studies at Hamburg University, she was awarded the degrees of Master of Education and PhD from the Flinders University of South Australia.

• Contents: Review of economic literacy world-wide - Gender differences in Economics - Content analysis of Economics curricula - Levels of economic literacy - Economics as a school subject - Economic Literacy Survey - Queensland 1998 - The internet and data collection - Literacy benchmarking using Rasch scaling - Student's attitudes towards economics - Successful teaching strategies in Economics - School resources and Economic literacy - Policy recommendations - Hierarchical linear models - Path analysis.