Personal Financial Literacy

Welcome to Personal Financial Literacy!

Welcome to Albert's Personal Financial Literacy course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Personal Financial Literacy course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Subject Organization

Personal Financial Literacy's Practice tab is organized by content themes and broken down into topics. Within each topic, questions are organized by leveled subtopics that increase in depth and difficulty as the student progresses.

Themes

The Personal Financial Literacy Practice tab has the following themes:
  • Earning and Income
  • Budgeting and Spending
  • Saving Money
  • Investing
  • Credit and Debt
  • Managing Risks
  • Paying for College
  • Business Finance

Topics

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here is a list of topics within our "Earning and Income" theme:
  • Education and Careers
  • Taxes and Income
  • Tax Forms and Guidance
  • Government Assistance Programs
  • Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy

Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions

Standards

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter. Personal Financial Literacy questions are also aligned to National Standards for Personal Financial Education.
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Tags

Albert’s Personal Financial Literacy course includes two types of tags, question style and content. The table below provides examples of each of these tags:
Types of TagExamples
Question Style Tags
  • financial-vocabulary
  • financial-math
  • financial-documents
  • financial-applications
Content Tags
  • credit-cards
  • taxes
  • renting-vs-buying
  • compound-interest
Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level. Then, type in a content tag or search for the desired question style. Note that these tags are case-sensitive.

Question Types

Personal Financial Literacy uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Select
  • Two-Way Tables
  • Fill-in-the-blank

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