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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors
Numeracy, 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
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Medical Decision Making, 2013 Background and Objective. Existing research concludes that measures of general numeracy can be used to predict individuals’ ability to assess health risks. We posit that the domain in which questions are posed affects the ability to perform mathematical tasks, raising the possibility of a separate construct of “health numeracy” that is distinct from ...
Levy, Helen +4 more
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Non-Symbolic Magnitude Processing Is a Strong Correlate of Symbolic Math Skills in Children From Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT The ability to understand and compare non‐symbolic (e.g., dot arrays) and symbolic (e.g., Arabic numerals) magnitudes is a critical foundation for learning math. A meta‐analysis has revealed that symbolic magnitude processing is a stronger predictor of math performance than non‐symbolic, but the evidence base is restricted almost entirely to ...
Bugden S +4 more
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Jurnal Berdaya Mandiri, 2022 Teacher innovation in designing interesting learning requires continuous improvement of abilities. The learning assessment paradigm that revolves around the Asasemen Kopetnsi Minimum (AKM) where one of them is numeracy or also called numeracy literacy ...
Ratu Ilma Indra Putri +11 more
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Numeracy and Health Numeracy Among Chinese and Kenyan Immigrants to Canada
SAGE Open, 2014 Mathematics self-efficacy plays an important role in the performance of quantitative tasks. The objective of this study was to examine the role of mathematics self-efficacy in numeracy and health numeracy among immigrants (60 Mandarin-speaking and 60 ...
S. Gatobu +2 more
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Age differences in the use of serving size information on food labels: numeracy or attention? [PDF]
, 2016 ObjectiveThe ability to use serving size information on food labels is important for managing age-related chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity and cancer.
Applegate, Elizabeth +4 more
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Assessing Adult Learner’s Numeracy as Related to Gender and Performance in Arithmetic
Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2014 The study investigated adult learner numeracy as related to gender and performance in arithmetic among 32 Nigerian adult learners from one government accredited adult literacy centre in Lagos State using the quantitative research method within the ...
Adeneye O. A. Awofala +1 more
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Numeracy Programming at Major Canadian Urban Libraries: An Exploratory Study
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2020 The Government of Canada identifies numeracy as a foundational skill for work, learning, and life. Libraries have historically been champions of literacy; however, the role of libraries in developing numeracy skills is understudied.
Andrea Budac +4 more
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Jurnal Math Educator Nusantara: Wahana Publikasi Karya Tulis Ilmiah di Bidang Pendidikan Matematika, 2023 : This research was motivated by the low numeracy of students in statistics courses, which contradicts the importance of numeracy. For this reason, an integrated statistics e-module with a flipbook and augmented reality was developed with the aim that ...
Ika Santia +4 more
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Numeracy, 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
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