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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors

open access: yesNumeracy, 2016
Low numeracy in doctors poses serious risks to patient safety because inaccurate drug dose calculation may lead to under-treatment or overdose, while erroneous data interpretation affects medical decision making.
Anne A. Taylor, Lucie M. Byrne-Davis
doaj   +2 more sources

Numeracy Across the Curriculum in Australian Schools: Teacher Education Students’ and Practicing Teachers’ Views and Understandings of Numeracy [PDF]

open access: yesNumeracy, 2017
In this article, we confront the challenges to teacher education students and practicing teachers raised by the concept of numeracy and its place in the curriculum.
Helen J. Forgasz   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy [PDF]

open access: yesNumeracy, 2019
This multipurpose editorial explores and tries to count the many types of literacy that are referred to by name in Wikipedia and Numeracy. Wikipedia’s Category:Literacy page identifies 44 kinds of literacy that are the subject of articles, ranging from ...
H.L. Vacher
doaj   +2 more sources

Disrupting Dominant Discourses: A (Re)Introduction to Social Practice Theories of Adult Numeracy [PDF]

open access: yesNumeracy, 2018
The role of dominant discourse in constructing a deficit view of adult numeracy is examined, using reports from recent international surveys of adult skills as illustrative examples.
Helen M. Oughton
doaj   +3 more sources

Looking at the Multiple Meanings of Numeracy, Quantitative Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning

open access: yesNumeracy, 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
H.L. Vacher
doaj   +2 more sources

Probing the Relationship Between Home Numeracy and Children's Mathematical Skills: A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The concept of home numeracy has been defined as parent–child interactions with numerical content. This concept started to receive increasing attention since the last decade.
Belde Mutaf-Yıldız   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

From parent-teacher collaboration to young children's numeracy skills: An examination of the underlying mechanisms. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Educ Psychol
Abstract Background Growing evidence shows that parent–teacher collaboration benefits parents and their children. Yet, there is limited understanding of whether and how parent–teacher collaboration contributes to children's early numeracy skills. Aims This study examined whether parent–teacher collaboration is linked to children's early numeracy skills
Caldwell MP   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Early numeracy and literacy skills and their influences on fourth-grade mathematics achievement: a moderated mediation model

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
This study explored the influence of early literacy and numeracy skills on fourth-grade math achievement using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Isabelle Chang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Numeracy, gist, literal thinking and the value of nothing in decision making

open access: yesNature Reviews Psychology, 2023
The onus on the average person is greater than ever before to make sense of large amounts of readily accessible quantitative information, but the ability and confidence to do so are frequently lacking.
V. Reyna, C. J. Brainerd
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The circumstances of literacy numeracy skill: Between notion and fact from elementary school students

open access: yesJurnal Prima Edukasia, 2022
Literacy activities in Indonesia are intensively developed to form literate citizens. Literacy is defined as a basic ability to develop individual potential in achieving goals.
Y. Rakhmawati, A. Mustadi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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