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Quantitative Literacy for University students in South Africa
, 2016 These activities and exercises are most appropriate for Humanities and Law students, but the contexts used should be of interest to any citizen. The mathematical content covered does not include data analysis, statistics and probability.
Rughubar-Reddy, Sheena +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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Statistical literacy and quantitative reasoning: rethinking the curriculum
New Skills in the changing World of Statistics Education IASE Roundtable Conference, 2020 The importance of statistical literacy/quantitative reasoning has been highlighted for decades; today the need is even more compelling with data science emerging as foundational in many disciplines. Educated students should understand how to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty and how to interpret quantitative information presented to them in
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
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Confronting Challenges, Overcoming Obstacles: A Conversation about Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, 2009 An edited transcript of the opening session of a workshop on quantitative literacy held Oct. 10-12, 2008 at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. The workshop, which brought together interdisciplinary teams from two dozen colleges and universities ...
Bernard L. Madison, Lynn A. Steen
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Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progression: The Matrix
Numeracy, 2014 The NSF Pathways Project studied the development of environmental literacy in students from grades six through high school. Learning progressions for environmental literacy were developed to explicate the trajectory of learning.
Robert L. Mayes +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines informal supporters' experiences and views of NDIS behaviour support practitioners, including engagement, information needed to support selection, and perceptions of practitioners' knowledge, skill, and practice. It reports data from a cross‐sectional online survey of 123 informal support providers of participants receiving
Alinka Fisher +7 more
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Quantitative Literacy: A Tool for Survival
Numeracy, 2020 In the context of a global pandemic, the need for quantitative literacy has become more urgent. QL and QL-adjacent habits of mind, such as awareness of the limitations of data and modeling, are vital tools of survival that can help people understand today's fast-changing world and make decisions about next actions, in particular in relation to the ...
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School libraries, political information and information literacy provision : findings from a Scottish study [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents the findings of research which explored Scottish school libraries’ information provision and information literacy support in the run-up to two major political events: the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum (SIR) and the 2015 ...
Smith, Lauren N., Smith, Lauren
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