A Research on Economics Literacy Level of Banking Department Students: The case of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the economic literacy level of the Banking Department students studying economics. In the study, the level of economic literacy of the participants was examined in the dimensions of bil economic knowledge ”,“ economic rationality ”,“ social economic reflections ”and individual economic planning. In the research, questionnaire technique was used as data collection method. The questionnaire was applied to the students of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at a public university in Ankara. In this study, Cronbachayıss Alpha coefficient was examined to reveal the reliability levels of the statements that reveal the economic literacy levels of university students and this value was found to be 0.96 for the scale. Four hypotheses were determined for the research and MannWhitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test were applied to test the accuracy of the hypotheses. As a result, it was found that there is no significant difference between the level of economic literacy of banking students and gender, class, working anywhere and using credit card. On the other hand, it was found that there was a significant difference between the sub-dimension of economics knowledge and the class variable which revealed the level of economic literacy. In the research, Games-Howell test was used to determine the source of the difference and as a result of the test, it was found that there was a significant difference between the opinions of the first-year students and the fourth-year students.