Original report

5. Analysis

Resource Usefulness

Organisations were asked to nominate their ‘Top Ten’ resources in order to help those who are just starting to work in this field and have limited budgets. Less than 20% of the respondents nominated their Top Ten so the table below shows columns for the Top Ten and a column combining the Top Ten and those shown to be ‘Very Useful’ and ‘ Useful’ (using a score of 3 for ‘very useful’ and 2 for ‘useful’).

Table-ResourceUsefulness

The two columns are very similar and show resources that can be used for teaching financial literacy and literacy/ numeracy through finance. Having said that, there is a bias towards resources for teaching numeracy through finance. Therefore, in Appendix 2, there is a table with the ranking for all the resources, for those not delivering numeracy through finance. Another point to make is the high percentage of respondents who had only seen a few of the resources listed and therefore were unable to comment. This will have undoubtedly have skewed the Top Ten/Useful Resources towards those that are commonly available and a low ranking should not be taken to suggest that people will not find a particular resource useful for the group they work with. Several of the resources produced by the Basic Skills Agency were still only in draft form when the questionnaire was sent out therefore they may not appear as useful as when they are in published form and have not been widely distributed. Appendix 3 summarises the responses to the section on resource usefulness.

 

 

 


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