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Beyond High-Income Countries: Low Numeracy Is Associated with Older Adult Age around the World
MDM Policy & Practice, 2023 Background Numeracy, or the ability to understand and use numbers, has been associated with obtaining better health and financial outcomes. Studies in high-income countries suggest that low numeracy is associated with older age—perhaps especially among ...
Wändi Bruine de Bruin +3 more
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Student Success, 2022 If the Australian government is going to reach its target of 40% of 25–34-year-olds attaining a bachelor degree by 2025, it is critical that enabling courses are properly situated to bridge the gap between the alarmingly low numeracy of the adult ...
Gemma Mann
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Evaluating Educationists’ Andragogical Strategies for Teaching Numeracy: A Case Study of the Kwazulu-Natal Adult Correctional Centre Classroom [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThe paper sought to evaluate correctional centre educationists’ numeracy and andragogical practices. From the interpretivist epistemological stance, qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews and classroom observations to address ...
Siphelele Mbatha
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy
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, 2020 A tension raised in recent scholarship is that between numeracy as a social practice and numeracy as a functional skill set. Such frameworks for conceptualizing numeracy pose a challenge to assessment because what individuals do with numeracy is not the ...
Samuel Tunstall
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Psychological research, including research into adult reading, is frequently based on convenience samples of undergraduate students. This practice raises concerns about the external validity of many accepted findings. The present study seeks to determine
Heather Wild +2 more
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Saber & Educar, 2020 O artigo apresenta genericamente o Programa Internacional para a Avaliação das Competências dos Adultos (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, PIAAC), um programa internacional multiciclo de avaliação das competências dos ...
Luís Rothes, João Queirós
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Numeracy as social practice – current research and empirical approaches
Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report, 2019 So far, numeracy as part of basic education has only been considered peripherally in the German-speaking countries, regarding the scientific as well as the practical approaches of adult education.
Antje Pabst +4 more
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Learning to be teachers of adult numeracy
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 ...
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Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Value of a National Adult Literacy and Numeracy Qualification
New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2014 Adult literacy and numeracy practitioners are integral to the successful development of this emerging sector and yet there is little research about them as a professional group or their practices.
John Benseman
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