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Fall 2006

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 22, Number 1

Categories: Education | Fall 2006

An Evaluation of Learning, Earning and Investing A Model Program for Investor Education

M. Scott Niederjohn, Concordia University Wisconsin

Mark C. Schug, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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JournalofPrivateEnterprise,Volume)0CII,Number1,Fall2006AnEvaluationofLearning,EarningandInvestingAModelProgramforInvestorEducationM.ScottNiederjohnLakelandCollegeMarkC.SchugUniversityofWisconsin-MilwaukeeTobeuninformedaboutmarketsandfinancialmanagementhaspracticalconsequencesforindividuals,especiallytodaywhenconsumers•faceanincreasinglycomplexarrayofnewfinancialservicesandproductsaboutwhichtheymusttrytomakewisechoices(Greenspan,2003).Therearepublicconsequencesaswell,sinceindividualswhostruggleunsuccessfullytomanagetheirfinancialaffairsmayexperiencedebilitatingproblemssuchasbankruptcyanddivorce.Despiteitsimportance,everypublishedreportshowsthatAmericanyoungpeoplehaveaninadequateunderstandingofeconomicsandpersonalfinance.Walstad&Rebeck(2001),forexample,foundthathighschoolstudentswhohadnotstudiedeconomicsscored41percentcorrectontheTestofEconomicLiterag.Moreover,economicandfinancialknowledgehaspracticalaswellasacademicimportance.CourchaneandZorn(2005)foundthatthefinancialknowledgeisthesinglelargestpredictorofresponsiblefinancialbehavior.ThisreportfocusesonhowthelessonsfromLearning,EarningandInvestinginfluencestudentknowledgeandattitudestowardsavingandinvestingwhenusedbyteacherstrainedtousetheprogram.Learning,EarningandInvestingintroducesstudentstotheworldofinvesting,itsbenefitsandrisks,andthecriticalroleitplaysinfosteringcapitalformationandjobcreationinourfreemarketsystem.Learning,EarningandInvestingisaninvestoreducationprogramfocusingonthebenefitsofandstrategiesforinvestingforthelongterm.M.ScottNiederjohnandMarkC.Schug180

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Title	An Evaluation of Learning, Earning and Investing A Model Program for Investor Education
Authors/Creators:	M. Scott Niederjohn, Concordia University Wisconsin Mark C. Schug, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Year:	2006
Volume:	22
Number:	1
Pages:	180 - 190
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Educational Notes
Keywords:	Economic education, Finance, Economic literacy

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Niederjohn, M. Scott; Schug, Mark C. / 2006. "An Evaluation of Learning, Earning and Investing A Model Program for Investor Education." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 22(1): 180-190.