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Literacy and numeracy assessments of adult English language learners [PDF]
, 2014 This report is an attempt to answer questions about the extent to which the Assessment Tool can reasonably and legitimately be used to assess the literacy and numeracy of English language learners, on the basis of a descriptive study of skills (as ...
Chris Lane
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Journal of Family Research, 2012 Mathematical competencies are important not only for academic achievement at school, but also for several professions later in life. Although plenty of research has focused on the development of linguistic competencies and the impact of learning ...
Frank Niklas, Wolfgang Schneider
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Efficacy of an online positive parenting program: A randomized controlled trial
Family Relations, EarlyView.Abstract Objective This randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI), a 6‐week culturally adapted online positive parenting program for Chinese parents of preschoolers. Background Academic‐oriented parenting in China may limit children's opportunities for play‐based learning and socioemotional ...
Minyi Li, Ni Zhang, Shiqi Wang
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how foreign language teachers’ beliefs about the medium of instruction and translanguaging evolve over time by revisiting three in‐service teachers twelve years after their initial interviews. Using a qualitative longitudinal design, the study traces how translanguaging was initially framed as pedagogically deficient but ...
Danping Wang
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, 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 +3 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 569-587, April 2025.A diverse body of research conducted since the start of Covid‐19 has investigated the impact of the pandemic on children's environments and their language development. This scoping review synthesises the peer‐reviewed research literature on this topic between 2020 and 2023.
Cecilia Zuniga‐Montanez +4 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.In the fields of child psychology and psychiatry, countless environmental factors have been identified as correlates of children's health and development, yet each of these generally accounts for a small proportion of variance. The unaccounted‐for variation in a model may be due to measurement error, random variation, model misspecifications or ...
Mark Wade, Maya Mammon
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LABOUR, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the problem of assessment non‐completion in surveys within the context of cognitive skills measurement in sub‐Saharan Africa. The World Bank's STEP Skills Measurement Program represented a major initiative to measure skills in low‐ and middle‐income countries, with surveys conducted in two African countries, Ghana and ...
Andreas Backhaus
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Looking at the Multiple Meanings of Numeracy, Quantitative Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning
, 2014 The subject of this journal goes by a variety of names: numeracy, quantitative literacy, and quantitative reasoning. Some authors use the terms interchangeably. Others see distinctions between them. Study of psycholinguistic and ontological concepts laid
Vacher, H. L., H.L. Vacher
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills‐to‐Job Mismatches
New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A pervasive discourse calls for worker upskilling amid ongoing digital transformation. This study introduces a skills‐to‐job mismatch perspective into research on the digital transformation of work by conceptualising technological adoption as a process that reshapes the relationship between workers’ skill endowments and evolving job ...
Ana Santiago‐Vela
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