The Connecticut Council on Economic Education and the Center for Economic Education at the University of Connecticut provide a variety of custom and “pre-packaged” assessment tools in preparation for the national assessment of economic and financial literacy in 2007-2008. These materials include, but are not limited to: 

Financial Fitness for Life: Examiner’s Manual – Grades 9 – 12
Financial Fitness for Life: Examiner’s Manual – Grades 6 – 8
Financial Fitness for Life: Examiner’s Manual – Grades 3 - 5 
Financial Fitness for Life: Test Booklets – All Grade Levels - CDROM online
Test of Economic Literacy; Basic Economics Test: 5-6
Test of Economic Knowledge: 7-9
Test of Economic Literacy: 11-12, Third editions, nationally normed
Test  of Understanding in College Economics – the essential measuring instrument for college-level instructors of introductory economics courses.

The Connecticut Council on Economic Education and the University of Connecticut Center for Economic Education offer several elementary economic and financial literacy curricular aids and training in their use.  These materials are designed to be embedded in the current Connecticut Curriculum to help teachers meet standardized assessment objectives.  They include: 

Elementary School Curricular Aids and Training

Energy, Economics and the Environment, Play Dough Economics, Focus Economics - Grades 3-5
Financial Fitness for Life:  Steps to Financial Fitness (stressing real life decision skills)
Financial Fitness for Life:  Pocket Power, Grades K - 2 (stressing real life decision skills)  
Master Curriculum Guide: Teaching Strategies 5-6 (teaching economics across the curriculum)
Mathematics and Economics: Grades 3 – 5 (using math concepts to teach economics and personal finance skills)
Choices & Changes: in Life, School & Work – Grades 2-4 (helps students explore and practice decision-making skills in relationship to education and one’s future job)
Choices & Changes: in Life, School & Work – Grades 5-6 (helps students explore and practice decision-making skills in relationship to education and one’s future job)
Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature (Introduces students to economics and personal finance through popular children’s books)
Children in the Marketplace: Lesson Plans in Economics for Grades 3-5 (role-play and story telling brings economics to life)
The Great Economic Mysteries Book, and Econ and Me (imaginary friend applies economics to the real world for grades 2 – 5)

High School Curricular Materials and Professional Development

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History (Use a unique mix of past events and current, real-world scenarios to draw a picture of U.S. History that students can easily relate to)
Virtual Economics: Version 3.0 (Internet based resource that places over 1,200 activity-based lessons at teachers fingertips)
Advanced Placement Economics (a unique college-level economics course for high school students)
Thinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy (CD-ROM with eight lessons covering international topics)
Learning, Earning and Investing: High School (Investor education curriculum for Grades 6-12)
The Great High School Economic Package (Three essential tools for teaching high school economics and finance)
Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics (14 activity based lessons that make economics come alive)
Focus: High School Economics (Second Edition -- A basic economics curriculum for high school students)
Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide (Designed to teach adults about money and credit management)
Focus: Institutions and Markets (helps you and your students discover how civics, history and economics play a key role in economic development)
Financial Fitness for Life: Bringing Home the Gold Grades 9-12 (helps students apply economics and decision-making skills to the real world of earning and spending an income, savings, using credit, and managing money)
US History and World History - Grades 8-12
Beyond Economic Growth: Meeting the Challenges of Global Development, Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work: Grades 9-10 (students explore and practice decision-making skills in relation to life, school, and work)
The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning (a Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning Grades 9-12)
Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making (relates economics and personal finance to consumer, business, social, and personal choices)
Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life- 9-12 (Use mathematic concepts to teach economics and personal finance skills)
Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship (combines economics education with entrepreneurship and business lessons)
Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy (expands economic and financial knowledge using business lessons)
Economics at Work (A new multi-media way to teach and to learn economics)
Focus: Economic Systems (a comparative approach to the economics of control, cooperation and competition)
Focus: International Economics (examining the consequences of a global economy)
Economies in Transition: Command to Market (understanding the difficulties facing emerging market economies)
From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes,
Focus on Economics: Geography (enhances geography classes through active, personalized experiences with economics)
Focus on Economics: Civics and Government (enhances Civics & Government through active, personalized experiences with economics)
Focus on Economics: United States History (enhances United States History through active, personalized experiences with economics)
Focus on Economics: World History (enhances World History through active, personalized experiences with economics)
United States History: Eyes on the Economy (viewing history through economics field glasses) and
Economics and the Environment (Economic solutions to environmental problems)

Master Curriculum Guide: Economics And Entrepreneurship
Economics and Entrepreneurship is designed for high school teachers of economics, social studies, business education, and other subjects who wish to combine a study of basic economic concepts with an understanding of entrepreneurship. Teachers are provided with a variety of lessons and instructional approaches that can be adapted to meet the requirements and teaching styles of each individual classroom. Economics and Entrepreneurship contains: an overview of the relationship between economics and entrepreneurship education -- 17 lessons focusing on economic concepts that are essential to an understanding of entrepreneurship and its role in the American Economy  --  a description of instructional approaches that foster entrepreneurial behavior on the part of students.  Student activity handouts for photocopying and distribution are also included.   This program is often employed with The Community Publishing Company: Exploring the Marketplace - Teacher Resource Manual. This program and materials are available through the Center for Economic Education at the University of Connecticut. For information or materials, contact William Alpert, (203) 251-8413, http://ccee.uconn.edu