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The Effect of Numeracy Level on Completeness of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring [PDF]

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2014
Home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) readings predict the increased risks of cardiovascular events and end‐organ damage independent of office blood pressure (BP). Numeracy (the ability to handle numbers) may limit the feasibility of patients' performing HBPM.
Rao, Vishal N., Tuttle, Laura A., Sheridan, Stacey L., Lin, Feng-Chang, Shimbo, Daichi, Diaz, Keith, Hinderliter, Alan L., Viera, Anthony J.   +7 more
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How far behind in number are socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils when they start school in England?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the gap in number skills between socioeconomically disadvantaged and non‐disadvantaged children in the first year of compulsory schooling in England. Past research mostly relies on statutory assessment data collected towards the end of the first year of school and does not show the attainment gap associated with ...
Martin Culliney, Joanne Robson
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1–9

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This study focuses on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, the home literacy environment, and the home numeracy environment as well as their predictive role in Finnish children’s reading and mathematical development through Grades 1–9.
Daria Khanolainen, Maria Psyridou, Gintautas Silinskas, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Pekka Niemi, Anna-Maija Poikkeus, Minna Torppa   +7 more
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The magnitude of educational disadvantage amongst indigenous minority groups in Australia. [PDF]

, 2007
Indigenous groups are amongst the most disadvantaged minority groups in the developed world. This paper examines the educational disadvantage of indigenous Australians by assessing academic performance at a relatively early age.
A Tatum, ABS, ABS, ABS, ABS, BH Hunter, Colin Green, D Neal, E Hanushek, Gareth Leeves, J Borland, J Kimmel, J Ruge, J Taylor, Mirko Draca, P Carneiro, P George, P Kuhn, P Todd, R Fryer, S Bradley, S Mellor, SA Maani, Steve Bradley   +23 more
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives [PDF]

, 2020
Edited by Keiko Yasukawa, Alan Rogers, Kara Jackson and Brian Street Routledge, London and New York, 2018, 260 pages.
Evans, Jeff
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Validating a Home Numeracy Questionnaire in Ecuador Using Factor Analysis

International Journal of Educational Research Review, 2020
The home numeracy questionnaire (HNQ) developed by LeFevre et al. (2009) is a self-report instrument to assess the home numeracy of young children. In this questionnaire, young children’s parents have to indicate how often their child participates both in direct (e.g., counting down: 10, 9, 8, …) and indirect numeracy activities (e.g., playing board ...
Bojorque Iñegues, Gina Catalina, Van Hoof, Jo, Torbeyns, Joke, Van Nijlen, Daniel, Verschaffel, Lieven   +4 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are children’s spontaneous number focusing tendencies related to their home numeracy environment?

ZDM, 2020
Young children show large individual differences in their tendency to focus spontaneously on numerical aspects (e.g., numerosities or Arabic number symbols) of their everyday environment. The origins of these individual differences are unclear. Given the role of the home numeracy environment (HNE) in children’s early mathematical development and the ...
Rathé, Sanne, Torbeyns, Joke, De Smedt, Bert, Verschaffel, Lieven   +3 more
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source