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Measuring Numeracy in a Community College Context: Assessing the Reliability of the Subjective Numeracy Scale

, 2017
In this paper, our goals were to assess the suitability of the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS), developed for health-care use, in a new context with predominantly minority students at a South Bronx community college and to identify any race/ ethnicity ...
Hoiland, Sarah L, Kate S. Wolfe, Sarah L. Hoiland, Wolfe, Kate S   +3 more
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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
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Communicating complex numeric information in clinical research

Frontiers in Communication, 2023
The ability to understand and use numeric information in healthcare and clinical research is a critical component of informed decision-making for patients and study participants. Health numeracy levels in the general population, however, tend to be quite
Barbara E. Bierer, Barbara E. Bierer, Barbara E. Bierer, Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Sylvia Baedorf Kassis   +4 more
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Appendices A-C from Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour

, 2022
Appendix A: Preliminary Measurement Study; Appendix B: Exploratory Analysis; Appendix C: Alternative ...
Lau, Nathan T. T., Wilkey, Eric D., Soltanlou, Mojtaba, Lagacé Cusiac, Rebekka, Peters, Lien, Tremblay, Paul, Goffin, Celia, Alves, Isabella Starling, Ribner, Andrew David, Thompson, Clarissa, Van Hoof, Jo, Bahnmueller, Julia, Alvarez, Aymee, Bellon, Elien, Coolen, Ilse, Ollivier, Fanny, Ansari, Daniel   +16 more
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Numbers in Health: Exploring Health Numeracy in a Mexican-American Population [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
Health numeracy can be defined as the ability to use numeric information in the context of health. The interpretation and application of numbers in health may vary across cultural groups.To explore the construct of health numeracy among persons who identify as Mexican American.Qualitative focus group study.
Marilyn M, Schapira, Kathlyn E, Fletcher, Pamela S, Ganschow, Cindy M, Walker, Bruce, Tyler, Sam, Del Pozo, Carrie, Schauer, Elizabeth A, Jacobs   +7 more
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Every student counts: promoting numeracy and enhancing employability [PDF]

, 2010
This three-year project investigated factors that influence the development of undergraduates’ numeracy skills, with a view to identifying ways to improve them and thereby enhance student employability.
Lloyd-Jones, R., Worthington, Claire, Timmins, J.G., Lloyd-Jones, R, Naureen Durrani (4460737), Timmins, J. Geoffrey, Nicholls, D, Roger Lloyds-Jones (16129451), Durrani, Naureen, Durrani, N, Claire Worthington (7200104), Nichol, David, David Nicholls (1822744), Tariq, Vicki, Worthington, Claire H, Vicki Tariq (16129448), Geoffrey Timmins (16129454), Nicholls, D., Timmins, John Geoffrey, Lloyd Jones, Roger   +19 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Linking Canadian Administrative Data: Income Trajectories, Residential and School Mobility, and Grade 3 Academic Achievement.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objective The objective is to examine the association between trajectories of childhood residential and school mobility and academic achievement (literacy, numeracy) in Grade 3 using linked whole-population administrative data in Manitoba, Canada ...
Janelle Boram Lee, Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Leslie L Roos   +2 more
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Literacy and numeracy skills and labour market outcomes in Australia [PDF]

, 2014
Australian adults are above the OECD average in literacy but only average in numeracy, according to a staff paper released by the Productivity Commission.
Anthony Shomos, Matthew Forbes
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