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Undergraduate Students’ Meanings for Central Angle and Inscribed Angle
No full textContributing to research on students’ multifaceted meanings for angles (e.g., angles as ray pairs, as regions, and as turns), we report on three undergraduate students’ meanings for central and inscribed angles in circles. Specifically, we characterize how these meanings govern their mathematical activities when engaging in a circle geometry task, including their experienced perturbations and reconciliation of those perturbations. Our conceptual analysis reveals that some meanings are productive for students to conceive of a reflex angle in a circle and the correspondence between a central and an inscribed angle, while other meanings are limited.  
Conceptualizing financial advice in Australia: The impact of business models and external stakeholders on client’s best interest practice
No full textMany individuals entrust financial advisors to navigate through important financial decisions, yet extant research and persistent scandals bring the effectiveness of advice into question. In examining the Australian financial advice sector, we determine when financial advice can be provided in a cli- ent’s best interest and formulate a model differentiating types of financial advice and their relation- ship to best interest practice. We extend this model to form an integrated framework considering external stakeholders that encourage, and business models which prevent, best interest practice. Our examination reveals some business models prioritize financial institution interests whilst thwarting external stakeholders encouraging best interest practice
Develop a retirement plan and stick to it: it will improve both your attitude and behavior with money
No full textThis study explores the relationship between financial literacy, behavior and attitude, and retire- ment savings decisions. Members of a South African tertiary institution’s retirement fund were sur- veyed and multistage multivariate regression and mediation analyses showed that developing and conforming to a retirement plan positively influenced financial attitude and behavior. This indicates that interventions should focus on the specific behaviors which drive retirement planning, rather than financial literacy in isolation. Use of formal tools such as consulting with a financial planner also increases the relative risk of successful retirement planning. This presents a tangible and linear approach towards improved financial behavior
The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field
Get PDFThe is a review of Lina Dostilio\u27s The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field, along with the Dostilio and Marshall Welch\u27s companion text, The Community Engagement Professional’s Guidebook: A Companion to the Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education
Can financial literacy education reduce the use of Medicaid and SNAP?
No full textIn recent decades, we have seen an increase in both the complexity of financial markets and the expectations of individual responsibility for people’s financial decision-making. Policies supporting financial literacy education are promoted as a way to decrease reliance on social safety nets. The assumption is that low levels of financial literacy translate to lower economic outcomes and, thus, increased dependence on social programs. We use the 2018 National Financial Capabilities Study to investigate the possible relationship between high school mandated financial literacy education and social program participation and find no evidence of such a relationship
The Association Between Financial Risk and Retirement Satisfaction
No full textA higher level of risky financial assets that a retiree holds may produce higher returns, resulting in utility gains. To test this hypothesis, a variable is constructed measuring retirees’ ratio of risky assets to total assets (risk ratio). Next, the association between the risk ratio and retiree utility is examined using a retirement satisfaction variable from the 1992-2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. The findings suggest that increases in retirees’ risk ratio is associated positively with increases in their retirement satisfaction. The results and ensuing discussion offer a new per- spective for retiree asset management
Grappling with Complexity: Faculty Perspectives on the Influence of Community Engaged Teaching on Student Learning
Get PDFThe purpose of this qualitative study is to examine college and university faculty members’ perspectives on if and in what ways does community engaged teaching influence their students’ learning. We ground our study in the tradition of interpretative study, as well as the conceptualization of learning put forth by Neumann (2005). Based on interviews with 14 faculty members (across a range of institutional type, rank, discipline, geographic location, and demographics) who have conducted community engaged teaching currently or within the past five years, participants’ narratives highlighted a meta-theme of their students learning to grapple with complexity. Grappling with complexity is comprised of three sub-themes of learning, including: recognizing the intricacies of applying theory to real-world problems, shifting from deficit to asset thinking, and confronting power structures in society. Implications for theory and practice are included
