Start Date
22-3-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
22-3-2019 12:15 PM
Department
Education
Program
Ed. D. Educational Leadership (School Leadership in International Contexts)
Year
1st
Supervisor Name
N/A
Supervisor Email
N/A
Abstract Text
This quantitative research study explores each set of provincial curriculum documents (save for Quebec) for the frequency of user-selected personal-finance based terms. The data from each province is compared and examined to answer: which provincial curriculum mentions user-selected personal-finance terms most frequently; how many words/pages are between each term mention, and how many personal-finance terms appear in the top 500 words in each curriculum. The research found that Prince Edward Island’s curriculum documents contained the most searched-for terms (at least one mention). Further, money (British Columbia and Newfoundland) and entrepreneur (Nova Scotia) are the only two searched-for personal-finance terms among the 500 most frequently-mentioned words in each set of curriculum-based corpora and appear approximately once every 16.5 pages in each of those respective sets of curriculum documents.
This project uncovers a wealth of information about the extent to which personal-finance related terms appear in each province's curricula via software-based tools. However, further research is encouraged to corroborate these findings. Furthermore, follow-up classroom-based observations would provide useful qualitative evidence to triangulate the quantitative data and enhance the inquiry into the state of personal-finance education in Canadian schools. Moreover, those interested in utilizing the data sets from this project in future research need to be aware that text-based term mentions are not necessarily indicative of in-class practices. Thus, further research needs to be conducted to gain a deeper understanding of school-based personal-finance learning, and complementary projects examining the impact of text mentions on human behaviour are encouraged.
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Dietary Restrictions
I do not like mayonnaise or mayonnaise-based sauces. I also don't like grapefruit. Thank you!
Supervisor Consent
yes
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Educational Technology Commons, Education Economics Commons, Other Education Commons
Auditing Canadian Curricula for the Prevalence of Personal-Finance Related Terms Using Text-Frequency and Distant-Reading Software Tools
This quantitative research study explores each set of provincial curriculum documents (save for Quebec) for the frequency of user-selected personal-finance based terms. The data from each province is compared and examined to answer: which provincial curriculum mentions user-selected personal-finance terms most frequently; how many words/pages are between each term mention, and how many personal-finance terms appear in the top 500 words in each curriculum. The research found that Prince Edward Island’s curriculum documents contained the most searched-for terms (at least one mention). Further, money (British Columbia and Newfoundland) and entrepreneur (Nova Scotia) are the only two searched-for personal-finance terms among the 500 most frequently-mentioned words in each set of curriculum-based corpora and appear approximately once every 16.5 pages in each of those respective sets of curriculum documents.
This project uncovers a wealth of information about the extent to which personal-finance related terms appear in each province's curricula via software-based tools. However, further research is encouraged to corroborate these findings. Furthermore, follow-up classroom-based observations would provide useful qualitative evidence to triangulate the quantitative data and enhance the inquiry into the state of personal-finance education in Canadian schools. Moreover, those interested in utilizing the data sets from this project in future research need to be aware that text-based term mentions are not necessarily indicative of in-class practices. Thus, further research needs to be conducted to gain a deeper understanding of school-based personal-finance learning, and complementary projects examining the impact of text mentions on human behaviour are encouraged.