Modellierung ökonomischer Kompetenz in einer Pilotstudie zu ECOS

Modelling Economic Literacy is still one of the research desiderata in economic education. Up to now, a convincing model for an empirical analysis was not yet presented that meets the requirements of a large-scale assessment. This is illustrated in the paper at hand, starting with a detailed synthesis of the competence definition of Weinert. After that the previous studies in the field of economic education are subject to a critical analysis. Then we try to integrate our new model of Economic Literacy into the existing approaches. This construct,which is expected to fix the identified problem areas, would therefore open economic Literacy for empirical tests, forms the basis for the pilot study of ECOS.