El Hayek Bassil, Pascale E.
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
The purpose of the mixed method research was to determine the level of financial literacy among third secondary students of a private catholic school in Lebanon and determine whether such skills were being acquired from the economics program at this school or from university, work experience or family life. The qualitative study measured the financial literacy of 54 third secondary students and 49 graduates of that same school using a standardized survey. Results showed that: the mean core of third secondary students was below the passing grade, the mean score of third secondary sociology and ...