Text Analysis of Sixth-Grade Textbooks for Financial Knowledge Application Based on Tyler Model

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Authors

1 PhD Student of Department of Education Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Education Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Education Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
The purpose of the study is to analyze the sixth grade textbooks for the application of financial knowledge from the point of view of the professors of the financial management department of public and private universities. The research method is descriptive-analytical. The statistical population of all professors of the financial management department of public and private universities with more than 10 years of experience in Tehran province is determined to be around 322 people. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. This tool is a combination of the financial knowledge tests of the National Council of Economic Education of America and the national standards for personal finance of the Jumpstart model and adapted to the conditions of Iranian students. Professors, experts of the Department of Economics of Islamic Azad University in Tehran and experts of the Education Organization have confirmed the validity of the questionnaire and its reliability has been confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha of 0.894. Text mining methods (mean, percentage and frequency) and inferential statistics have been used to review and analyze the data. The results of the research show that the educational goals of the framework of the personal finance book, the framework of content and learning experiences, the framework of organizing teaching-learning experiences and the design of the evaluation framework of learning experiences in the application of financial knowledge in sixth grade textbooks are effective from the point of view of financial experts and experts.

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