Money Talks and So Should We: Personal Assessment Tools for Finance Education
Welcome!
Hey, thanks for visiting the Money Talks Personal Assessment Tools project repository.
This page (our README file) lays out what we’re aiming to do and how you can join in the project. You can jump around the sections with the links below or scroll through. Reach out with any questions, we’d love to hear from you!
- What are we doing? (And why?)
- Who are we?
- What do we need?
- How can you join in?
- Get in touch
- Understand the jargon
What are we doing? (And Why?)
At Pockets Change we’re changing the way money is taught. We combine Hip Hop, Finance, and Design Thinking to build financial capability in K-12 and early adulthood.
Our workshops and lessons are a start but useful and accessible finance personal assessments are severely lacking in education. Those that exist do little to support the development of self-efficacy and understanding, rather they focus on calculating compound interest and other out of date skills. Let’s build them!!
Who are we?
We're here to help make it easier and more fun to teach and learn about finances. At the end of the day, it's not about knowing how to fill in a budget sheet, it's about developing financial habits and strategies that resonate with your personal identity.
We're a team of two educators, Andrea Ferrero & Dyalekt, and one CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Pamela Capalad. We travel across the country researching, developing, and sharing lessons, workshops, and professional development that educates and empowers students, teachers, and families.
What do we need?
You in whatever way you can help.
Over the summer we will be developing our self-assessment tools further and refining our evaluation design process to support learners across ages in examining their relationship with money. We need your feedback and insights to make the tools and the process for their creation better.
We need quiz lovers, evaluation researchers, learners, educators, designers, and programmers to help with the following
- feedback on the tool prototypes (what works, what doesn't, what could be better)
- feedback on our evaluation design process (our standards and assessment design practices)
- suggestions on our tool design (how are the tools aesthetically and functionally)
How can you join in?
- Everyone as learners, Try out one of the tool prototypes and share feedback on the experience.
- Educators and Evaluation Researchers, Share feedback on the summary of finance learning standards and our guide to creating assessments. Are they approachable? Is there an important topic or concept we missed?
- Designers and Programmers, Share suggestions for the architecture of tool prototypes.
We're excited to hear your thoughts and feedback. Reach out and connect with us on Twitter. You can check out our issues page for specific ways to contribute to each of the project elements described. Each issue explains where and how to make a particular contribution.
If you think you can help in any of the areas listed above (and we bet you can) or in any of the many areas that we haven't yet thought of (and here we're sure you can) then please check out our contributors' guidelines and our roadmap.
Please note that it's very important to us that we maintain a positive and supportive environment for everyone who wants to participate. When you join us we ask that you follow our code of conduct in all interactions both on and offline.
THANK YOU!
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Glossary
- Personal Finance: Managing money and the financial decisions that go with it in life
- Financial Capability: The combination of attitude, knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy needed to make and exercise money management decisions that best fit your values, goals, and situation.
- Self-assessment: Evaluation of your own attitudes, actions, and skills
- README file: a document that introduces an open project to the public and any potential contributors
- Repository or repo: a collection of documents related to your project, in which you create and save new code or content
- Roadmap: a document outlining the schedule of work to be done on a project
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