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Numeracy-Meets: Supporting the Teaching of Numeracy to Vulnerable Adult Groups
A key commitment of the Adult Literacy for Life Strategy (2021) is to reduce the number of adults in Ireland with unmet numeracy needs from 25% to 12%. One of the main challenges in achieving this is the varied provision of adult numeracy education. Many numeracy practitioners are either employed part time or are volunteers with few opportunities for ...
Faulkner, Fiona +4 more
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Health Psychology and Behavioral MedicineBackground Medication adherence is a vital element in the management of chronic diseases such as asthma, yet nonadherence remains a persistent challenge, particularly in regions with suboptimal health literacy (HL) levels.
Walid Al-Qerem +6 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio‐economic destinations: the so‐called OED triangle. Meanwhile, recent research highlights distinct roles of education and skills in status attainment.
Satoshi Araki
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, 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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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
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, 2019 This work draws on the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey. Last year a first review was conducted on the PIAAC Numeracy Framework (Tout. et al., 2017). In 2018 and 2019 the framework for the second cycle of PIAAC will be developed.
Díez-Palomar, Javier +2 more
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From educational reforms to skills in the labour market: The case of Spanish adults
Revista Galega de EconomíaThis study examines the long-term consequences of early school leaving and years of education on adult cognitive skills in Spain. Using an instrumental variable approach that leverages historical policy reforms—introducing minimum compulsory dropout ...
Irene Inés Ávila Gómez +2 more
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Special Supplement: Health Literacy and Adult Basic Education
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 This supplement of HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice seeks to affirm the relevance of adult basic education (ABE) to advancements in the health literacy field.
Maricel G. Santos +1 more
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Adult numeracy - a paradigm shift?
, 2022 I present the groundbreaking theories about scientific revolutions by Thomas Kuhn and his development of those theories, particularly the concepts of incommensurability and lexical change. I review the long-standing theoretical discussion about adult numeracy and the extensive attempts to reach some agreement upon which to build a research domain ...
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