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Bite-Sized Quantitative Reasoning Essays: A Review of Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (2020), by Vaclav Smil

Numeracy, 2023
In Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (2020), Vaclav Smil draws on his interdisciplinary background in science, public policy, and history to provide readers with 71 short essays that help us better understand aspects of
Samuel Tunstall
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Review of Painting by Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the "Experts" by Jason Makansi

Numeracy, 2018
Makansi, Jason. 2016. Painting By Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the "Experts". Tucson, AZ: Layla Dog Press. 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-9984259-0-0.
Denis Voytenko
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Digital literacy among Korean older adults: A scoping review of quantitative studies

Digital Health, 2023
Background While digital literacy has become an essential competency for individuals across generations and sectors of society, supporting digital literacy in older adults is particularly challenging.
Hun Kang, Jiwon Baek, S. Chu, JiYeon Choi   +3 more
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The Problems of Contemporariness and Voice: Review of Literacy & Mathematics: A Contemporary Approach to Quantitative Literacy by Jay P. Abramson and Matthew A. Isom (2005)

Numeracy, 2016
Jay P. Abramson and Matthew A. Isom. Literacy & Mathematics: A Contemporary Approach to Quantitative Literacy. (Dubuque IA: Kendell Hunt Publishing Co., 2005). 297 pp. ISBN 0-7575-2165-7.
Gizem Karaali
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Are We at a Watershed Moment for the Quantitative Literacy Movement?: Review of Shifting Context, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education, by Luke Tunstall, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds.

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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Development and Assessment of a Continuing Education Unit in Quantitative Literacy for High School STEM Teachers

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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Effectiveness of the refined health literacy course on improving the health literacy competencies of undergraduate nursing students: quantitative and qualitative perspectives

Medical Education Online, 2023
People with limited health literacy comprise a high-risk group for adverse health outcomes. Nurses must be made aware of the importance of health literacy and communicate with patients in plain language, which will solve the obstacles for patients using ...
Mei-Chuan Chang, Jui-Hung Yu, Jyh-Gang Hsieh, Mi Wei, Yingwei Wang   +4 more
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The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment 2: Demographic, Academic and Attitudinal Variables as Predictors of Quantitative Ability

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, Sanlyn Buxner, Erin Dokter, Donald McCarthy, Beau Vezino, Laci Brock, Edward Prather   +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, Donald W. McCarthy, Erin Dokter, Sanlyn Buxner, Edward Prather   +4 more
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The Intersection Between Food Literacy and Sustainability: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review

Sustainability
Achieving a sustainable global society is dependent on effective modern food systems and sustainable food literacy competency. This study aimed to make visible the nature of the intersection between food literacy and sustainability (sustainable food ...
Sarah McManus, Donna Pendergast, Harry Kanasa   +2 more
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