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Numeracy, 2019 Luke Tunstall, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds. 2019. Shifting Concepts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education. Math Notes 88. (Mathematics Association of America, MAA Press). Print ISBN 978-0-88385-198-2.
Maura Mast
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Numeracy, 2020 Influencing the teaching of quantitative literacy at all levels of education can be difficult due to the many demands placed on educators. In a continuing education course, public high school science teachers participated in a pilot study of a program on
Craig McClure
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Numeracy, 2017 In this article, we explore the ability of demographic and attitudinal variables to predict student scores on the Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment. Variables measured by the assessment include: students' academic choices and
Katherine Follette +6 more
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The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment, 1: Development and Validation
Numeracy, 2015 Science is an inherently quantitative endeavor, and general education science courses are taken by a majority of college students. As such, they are a powerful venue for advancing students’ skills and attitudes toward mathematics. This article reports on
Katherine B. Follette +4 more
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Numeracy, 2019 Tunstall, Samuel, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds. 2019. Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America) 258 pp. ISBN 978-1614443247.
Samuel Tunstall +2 more
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The Scope of Numeracy after Five Years
Numeracy, 2013 The purpose of this editorial is to provide an efficient way for readers and potential authors to see (a) what type of papers are published in this journal and (b) what subjects are appropriate.
H.L. Vacher, Dorothy Wallace
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Educational Assessment Is an Enduring Theme of Numeracy
Numeracy, 2015 The Assessment Theme Collection in this issue brings the count of papers on QL assessment to 22 out of the 136 papers (16.2%) in the journal’s first 15 issues.
H.L. Vacher
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Quantitative Literacy and Civic Virtue
Numeracy, 2018 Mathematics educators are occasionally called upon to justify the existence or the offering of quantitative literacy courses. This paper argues that effective quantitative literacy courses have different goals than algebra courses and are legitimate ...
William Briggs
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Perspectives in Education, 2012 This article examines some aspects of the effectiveness of a first-year course in quantitative literacy for Humanities and Law students at a South African university.
Vera Frith
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South African Journal of Education, 2020 Learners intending to enter some higher education (HE) institutions in South Africa write the National Benchmark Tests (NBTs) that are expected to provide a measure of their readiness for HE.
Benita P Nel
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