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Economic Attitudes of High School Students: New Norms for the Survey on Economic Attitudes

John C. Soper, William B. Walstad

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This paper reopens the question of the reliability and validity of an affective domain instrument, the Survey on Economic Attitudes, by providing new norms and a full discussion of the properties of the national high school sample used. The study also presents current information about the economic attitudes of American high school students, and raises some important questions about the affective orientation of social education.

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This paper reopens the question of the reliability and validity of an affective domain instrument, the Survey on Economic Attitudes, by providing new norms and a full discussion of the properties of the national high school sample used. The study also presents current information about the economic attitudes of American high school students, and raises some important questions about the affective orientation of social education.

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This paper reopens the question of the reliability and validity of an affective domain instrument, the Survey on Economic Attitudes, by providing new norms and a full discussion of the properties of the national high school sample used. The study also presents current information about the economic attitudes of American high school students, and raises some important questions about the affective orientation of social education.

Key concepts: Psychology, Sample (material), Validity, Socioeconomic status, Social psychology, Sociology, Psychometrics, Developmental psychology

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