A personal finance certification won’t turn students into financial experts overnight—but for many school districts, it’s a key box to check. Certifications:
PersonalFinanceLab is now Certiport’s preferred curriculum partner for the Intuit Personal Finance Certification; a nationally recognized credential designed to help students graduate with real-world financial skills and a résumé-ready certification.
This partnership gives schools an easy way to meet Career & Technical Education (CTE) goals, increase student engagement, and provide measurable outcomes, without adding extra work for teachers. Many schools bundle our curriculum directly with Certiport’s exam access for a seamless experience.
Once students complete the games and lessons on PersonalFinanceLab, they will be well prepared to take the Intuit Personal Finance Certification Exam via Certiport.
The certification validates students’ knowledge in the six core pillars of personal finance:
Lessons in each pillar are reinforced through hands-on practice, competition, and real-world application. Data shows that students who use the platform see measurable improvement: Significant gains in savings, budgeting, and risk management skills.
Investing 101 is a 10-chapter course included with a site license. It covers how investing works, from the main types of investments through how markets move, how to place a trade, and how to build and manage a portfolio.
Later chapters cover how to read company financials and stock charts, current market topics, and a short introduction to options.
The Financial Literacy Certification is included with a site license. Students earn it by completing a set of personal finance lessons aligned to the Jump$tart Coalition standards.
To get credit, they must score at least 50% on all self-grading pop quizzes.
Teachers can also use the pre and post tests to gauge how student knowledge on financial literacy concepts improves from the beginning and end of your class.
PersonalFinanceLab and Stock-Trak are experiential learning platforms designed to immerse students in real-life personal finance scenarios. Students take on the role of independent adults, managing budgets, paying bills, handling credit, and even investing—through a variety of educational games and simulations. The platform includes:
A virtual checking account, savings account, credit card, and investment portfolio.
A Personal Budgeting and Money Management Game where students create and manage a monthly budget.
A Stock Market Game with real-time trading of stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds.
Over 300 standards-aligned lessons that support gameplay and classroom instruction.
All content is aligned with national and state standards, including those established by the Jump$tart Coalition and the Council for Economic Education.
With thousands of teachers across all 50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 22 countries already using the platform, PersonalFinanceLab continues to lead the way in innovative, experiential financial literacy education.
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