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Professionalising the teaching of adult numeracy: are we there yet? [PDF]
Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A Journal to Inform and Improve Practice, 2009 Workforce development in Skills for Life (SfL) has taken on a greater significance since new overarching professional standards for teachers, tutors and trainers in the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS) were introduced through Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) in
Fletcher, Steven, Prinn, David
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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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Learning to be teachers of adult numeracy [PDF]
Journal of Education for Teaching, 2007 This paper investigates how teacher education programmes provide adequate preparation for its prospective teachers. It uses adult numeracy teacher education in the post‐compulsory education sector in England as exemplar. Using findings from two research projects on adult numeracy teacher education courses, the article investigates the applications of ...
Sai Loo, Loo, Sai
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy [PDF]
Numeracy, 2019 This multipurpose editorial explores and tries to count the many types of literacy that are referred to by name in Wikipedia and Numeracy. Wikipedia’s Category:Literacy page identifies 44 kinds of literacy that are the subject of articles, ranging from ...
H.L. Vacher
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Numeracy: The Hidden Face of Adult Literacy?
Education SciencesNumeracy, along with literacy and increasingly digital skills, is trumpeted in policies as a core skill for adults internationally. Yet, in policy advocacy and the “naming” of the field that is concerned with supporting the literacy and numeracy ...
Keiko Yasukawa
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Numeracy Definition Report: A report on adult learners' understanding and conceptualisation of numeracy in Ireland [PDF]
, 2022 This research report describes adult learners’ understanding and conceptualisation of numeracy. It was done to support the development of a working definition for numeracy in Ireland. This was a recommendation in SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority’s report ‘Good Practice in Integrated and Standalone Numeracy Provision at Levels 1-3’.
O'Meara, Niamh +4 more
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Assessing Numeracy in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Years [PDF]
Numeracy, 2015 Numeracy is the ability or tendency to reason critically about quantitative information. The preponderance of published research on numeracy examines this construct among either pre-K or early elementary samples, students with developmental challenges ...
Carol Ann Gittens
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Numeracy—an underestimated domain of adult basic education?
Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report, 2019 In this article, terms and the state of research on adult numeracy are compiled in a systematic way. The findings and theories are selected according to their relation to the German-language discourse of adult education and at the same time embedded in a
Anke Grotlüschen +2 more
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A European study investigating adult numeracy education
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of AdultsNumeracy is a critical competency needed by adults to navigate their way through tasks in their personal and professional lives. Hence, it is critical that efforts are made to identify and address challenges that prevent adults from developing the ...
Niamh O'Meara +3 more
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Numeracy in literacy courses for illiterate foreign adults
Italiano a scuola, 2020 This paper aims to describe the relationship between numerical intelligence and the literacy process by referring to research on the topic conducted in the field of developmental psychology and neuroscience, together with the description of an ...
Katia Raspollini
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