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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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Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
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Developing a Better and More User-Friendly Numeracy Scale for Patients
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Background: A person's ability to work with and understand numerical information (i.e., numeracy) is increasingly important in everyday health and other decision-making contexts.
W. Trey Hill +2 more
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Counting, Cardinality and Conservation in Autistic Children
Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined the understanding of cardinality and conservation in children with and without autism (aged 4–7 years, without intellectual disability), and its relation to counting strategies. A total of 82 children participated in the study, including 41 autistic children (36 boys, 5 girls) and 41 age‐ and sex‐matched non‐autistic peers.
Irene Polo‐Blanco +2 more
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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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Exploring Decisional Conflict With Measures of Numeracy and Optimism in a Stated Preference Survey
MDM Policy & Practice, 2021 Objectives Low optimism and low numeracy are associated with difficulty or lack of participation in making treatment-related health care decisions. We investigated whether low optimism and low self-reported numeracy scores could help uncover evidence of ...
Jessie Sutphin +4 more
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of student sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI)‐based education by integrating sentiment analysis techniques with statistical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations and decision tree modelling, alongside qualitative grounded theory analysis.
Volkan Duran +2 more
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Development and Validation of the Health Numeracy Test for Japanese Adolescents
SAGE OpenEducating the public to interpret health-related numerical information is essential for informed decision-making. Japan’s national Courses of Study for elementary and secondary school health education provide limited specific content or instructional ...
Tomomi Miyoshi PhD +5 more
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‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee +2 more
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