The Basic Economics Test or BET is a
standardized test
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of
economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
nationally
norm-referenced in the United States for use in the upper-grade levels of elementary schools. It is one of four grade-level specific standardized economics tests (i.e.,
Test of Economic Knowledge (TEK),
Test of Economic Literacy {{unref, date=February 2013
The Test of Economic Literacy or TEL is a standardized test of economics nationally norm-referenced in the United States for use in upper-grade levels of high schools. It is one of four grade-level specific standardized ...
(TEL) and
Test of Understanding in College Economics (TUCE)) sponsored and published by the
National Council on Economic Education
The Council for Economic Education (the new name, since 2009 January, of the National Council on Economic Education) is an organization in the United States that focuses on the economic and financial education of students from kindergarten throug ...
(NCEE) .
The BET was recently revised into its third edition in 2007 and will soon be available, along with an examiner’s manual, for teachers, school administrators and researchers through the NCEE. The revision process took place at the
National Center for Research in Economic Education The National Center for Research in Economic Education (NCREE) is a non-profit center located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, US. Its primary function is to assist researchers and other organizations with research, asses ...
(NCREE) and included a new set of norm-references that consisted of teacher and student participation from twenty-three U.S. states. The BET has two parallel forms, each with thirty four-option
multiple-choice
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items with
content validity
In psychometrics, content validity (also known as logical validity) refers to the extent to which a measure represents all facets of a given construct. For example, a depression scale may lack content validity if it only assesses the affective dim ...
based on the
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics.
References
External links
National Center for Research in Economic EducationNational Council on Economic Education
Economics education
Standardized tests in the United States
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