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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors
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
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Numeracy Across the Curriculum in Australian Schools: Teacher Education Students’ and Practicing Teachers’ Views and Understandings of Numeracy [PDF]
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
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy [PDF]
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
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Disrupting Dominant Discourses: A (Re)Introduction to Social Practice Theories of Adult Numeracy [PDF]
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
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Looking at the Multiple Meanings of Numeracy, Quantitative Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning
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
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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
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From parent-teacher collaboration to young children's numeracy skills: An examination of the underlying mechanisms. [PDF]
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
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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
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Numeracy, gist, literal thinking and the value of nothing in decision making
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
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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
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