Keywords
economic education
financial education
responsible consumption
competences
IRT
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Abstract
In Colombia the lack of valid and reliable instruments that allow diagnostics and measurements that contribute to the definition of the content of programs in economic and financial education and their effectiveness in their objectives is evident. The purpose of this study was to design and conduct a psychometric analysis of an instrument to assess basic skills in financial and economic education in 410 university students older than 15. The instrument was developed according to the test plan and content validation was performed with 8 experts. The study was instrumental. Data were analyzed from the context of item response theory (IRT). Internal consistency was established by a Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.98. The values found for Outfit and Infit indicated good fit to the Rasch model. The results show that the test meets the psychometric requirements required for this type of instrument, becoming a useful tool for measuring basic skills in economics and finance.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.