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Effects of Participation in a Simulation Game on Marketing Students' Numeracy and Financial Skills [PDF]

, 2012
The need to endow marketing graduates with skills relevant to employability grows ever more important. Marketing math and elementary financial understanding are essential employability skills, particularly given the contemporary emphasis on marketing ...
Brennan, Ross, Vos, Lynn
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
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Health numeracy skills of medical students:cross-sectional and controlled before-and-after study

BMC Medical Education, 2019
Background Although numeracy, defined as understanding and handling numbers, is an important skill for the medical profession, it is not clear whether it changes during graduate medical education and whether it can be improved by specific interventions ...
Ivan Buljan, Ružica Tokalić, Matko Marušić, Ana Marušić   +3 more
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Numeracy for 14 to 19-year-olds [PDF]

, 2011
GCSE results and international comparisons show that performance in numeracy is lower in Wales than that in the other home nations and below the average for OECD countries.
Scott, Val
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving numeracy in key stage 2 and key stage 3 [PDF]

, 2010
"The purpose of the report is to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives to improve standards of numeracy and to identify examples of best practice in key areas.

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS [PDF]

, 2008
Notes on contributing authors to Literacy and Numeracy Studies Vol 16 No 2 & Vol 17 No
Numeracy Studies, Literacy &
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Numeracy

Brock Education Journal, 2018
An analysis of numeracy as a keyword in education.
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy

Numeracy, 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
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