TCAI Research
Research provides the foundation of the Take Charge America Institute’s activities. To support and enhance its outreach programs, the Institute works with scholars from other universities and a wide variety of academic disciplines including behavioral finance and economics, psychology, sociology, consumer sciences and family studies. This interdisciplinary approach is expanding the research agenda to generate insights regarding consumer financial decisions. These insights guide the development of the Institute’s financial education workshops, FEFE curriculum and delivery methods.
In addition, the Institute’s research agenda includes studies of the impact of existing financial education programs across the country to measure program effectiveness, including measures of subsequent change in behavior. The Institute supports not only FEFE, but theCredit Wise Cats, a program comprised of University of Arizona students who provide personal financial education to the Tucson community, and the APLUS project, or Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students, which is a groundbreaking longitudinal research project that studies young adults’ financial behaviors, economic aspirations, and work and family choices.
FEFE Research
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January Survey – keeping with FEFE’s educator oriented principles and ongoing evaluation, FEFE conducts an annual survey of all FEFE Web site users to learn what is working, what isn’t, how individuals are using the FEFE curriculum and recommendations they have to improve the FEFE program.
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Educator Training Survey – FEFE conducts a national conference every year as well as many specialized trainings. We want to learn how the training has impacted training attendees teaching and recommendations for future improvement.
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2009 Results
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A collaborative project among:
