Topic: Employment, Financial Literacy
Target Population: Adolescents
Sector: School-Based
This program is for students who are in 9th to 12th grade.
Junior Achievement (JA) Titan® is a school-based, business-simulation program that is designed to teach students how to run a business in a competitive marketplace.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
In the JA Titan program, participants are the CEOs of their own virtual companies. Using an online fictional Holo-Generator™, participants learn about various business concepts, make decisions regarding their businesses, and determine how decisions affect the success or failure of a business. The JA Titan program discusses business themes, including price of product, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development costs, capital investment levels, and charitable giving. There are seven program sessions.
Program kits include a guide for volunteers and teachers that provides lesson plans and teaching tips, student workbooks, certificates of achievement that are given to students in recognition of their participation, take-home newsletters for families, a Holo-Generator poster that details important decisions made by business owners and examines how those decisions apply to the virtual business that students are running, an online simulation in which students use the skills they learn in sessions, and a CD-ROM for classrooms without Internet access.
A portion of the program is available to the public here http://titan.ja.org/
Junior Achievement was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919. Today, Junior Achievement USA reaches more than 4.4 million students per year in 176,714 classrooms and after-school locations. JA programs are taught throughout the United States, by over 100 Area Offices in all 50 states. The idea of JA Titan was originally developed in the 1980s as the Management and Economic Simulation Exercise. JA Titan was launched in 2000 as a web-based product.
Volunteers from the community implement this program, and they are trained for free through local JA offices. Training times will vary depending on the programs being delivered. Program kits contain detailed session plans for delivery. Please visit https://jausa.ja.org/volunteer/index, or use details in the Contact section for more information.
Considerations for implementing this program include obtaining administration support, ensuring facilitators review online training videos, securing computer access for all participants or purchasing the CD-Rom version if computer access is not available for all students, and finding time in existing classroom curricula or after school for program activities.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing JA Titan, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
This program includes 7 to 12 45- to 120-minute sessions.
Information on implementation costs was not located. Please use details in the Contact section to learn more.
To move JA Titan to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact Junior Achievement USA by mail One Education Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, phone 1-719-540-8000, email newmedia@ja.org, or visit https://jausa.ja.org/about/contact-us
