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Numerate people are less likely to be biased by regular science reporting: the critical roles of scientific reasoning and causal misunderstanding [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchNumerate people tend to make more informed judgments and decisions because they are more risk literate (i.e., better able to evaluate and understand risk).
Olivia D. Perrin +5 more
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Oral Health Literacy: Decision-Making and Reading Comprehension Skills as the Determinants of Self-Reported Oral Health [PDF]
Frontiers in DentistryObjectives: Oral health literacy (OHL) is a concept far beyond reading and including other skills such as numeracy skills, listening, and decision-making. Self-reported oral health(SROH) is a reliable and cost-effective measure of dental and periodontal
Negar Ebrahimi +2 more
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Irish Educational Studies, 2023 Despite the clear and obvious need for adults to be proficient in numeracy, international studies suggest that many continue to struggle in this area. In Ireland, one of the main challenges continues to be the availability of effective adult numeracy education.
Mark Prendergast +4 more
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Unleashing Adult Learners’ Numeracy Agency Through Self-Determined Online Professional Development
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022 Opportunities for self-determined online professional development (OPD) are emerging, but their potential for increasing adult learners’ agency is not yet fully realised.
Chris Walsh +3 more
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Exploring the association between occupational complexity and numeracy
Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021 The basic cognitive skill of numeracy is a recognized form of human capital, associated with economic and social well being for individuals and for nations.
Mary Genevieve Billington, Njål Foldnes
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Assessing Adult Learner’s Numeracy as Related to Gender and Performance in Arithmetic
Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2014 The study investigated adult learner numeracy as related to gender and performance in arithmetic among 32 Nigerian adult learners from one government accredited adult literacy centre in Lagos State using the quantitative research method within the ...
Adeneye O. A. Awofala +1 more
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Disrupting Dominant Discourses: A (Re)Introduction to Social Practice Theories of Adult Numeracy
Numeracy, 2018 The role of dominant discourse in constructing a deficit view of adult numeracy is examined, using reports from recent international surveys of adult skills as illustrative examples.
Helen M. Oughton
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BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objective To compare an objective with a subjective numeracy assessment for association with self-reported health status, where numeracy refers to “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to access, process, interpret, communicate, and act on ...
Natalie C. Benda +4 more
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Numeracy Practices and Numeracy Skills among Adults [PDF]
OECD Education Working Papers, 2018 We assess the relationship between numeracy skills and numeracy practices among adults in everyday life and at work from the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an international survey of about 250 000 adults aged 16-65 years old conducted by the OECD in 33 countries ...
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Numeracy Programming at Major Canadian Urban Libraries: An Exploratory Study
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2020 The Government of Canada identifies numeracy as a foundational skill for work, learning, and life. Libraries have historically been champions of literacy; however, the role of libraries in developing numeracy skills is understudied.
Andrea Budac +4 more
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