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Measuring Numeracy: Validity and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

open access: yesNumeracy, 2020
A tension raised in recent scholarship is that between numeracy as a social practice and numeracy as a functional skill set. Such frameworks for conceptualizing numeracy pose a challenge to assessment because what individuals do with numeracy is not the ...
Samuel Tunstall
doaj   +1 more source

Ichthyoliteracy: How Fish and Fisheries Influence Human Literacy

open access: yes, 2018
This dissertation seeks to ultimately disrupt the cultural, economic, and political apparatuses that have long made fish an inferior animal. It first examines various cultural artifacts that reveal how fish have long been ignored and neglected culturally
Justice, Christopher
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Training the morphological mindset: An educational framework for teaching morphological reasoning in the laboratory

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
The graphic summarizes the proposed shift from image recognition to morphological reasoning through an iterative process of observation, description, interpretation, integration, and questioning across anatomical, histological, and ultrastructural scales.
Katia Cortese
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐disciplinary integration: Information practices and a role for information scholars. An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
wiley   +1 more source

Parts of the Whole: Only Connect

open access: yesNumeracy, 2014
This is the first of several columns that will focus on the mechanisms by which new ideas become accepted by a culture, offering some familiar examples, deriving basic principles from these examples, and applying them to the problem of promoting ...
Dorothy Wallace
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Nonadherence and uncontrolled arterial hypertension in Croatia—Insights from the May Measurement Month 2023 campaign and Hunting the silent killer programme

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims To determine the prevalence of non‐adherence to antihypertensive medicines and to identify demographic and behavioral factors associated with non‐adherence in subjects enrolled in the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2023, as part of the permanent public health action Hunting the silent killer.
Valerija Bralić Lang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unquantifiable: The Impacts of Len Vacher

open access: yesNumeracy
This article celebrates H.L. (Len) Vacher, the founding editor of Numeracy. While many readers of this journal are no doubt familiar with Len’s contributions here and to quantitative literacy as a practice and habit of mind, fewer are intimately familiar
Victor Ricchezza, Nathan Grawe
doaj   +1 more source

Ohio Literacy Resource Center enhancing adult literacy in Ohio.

open access: yes, 1999
Title from PDF p. [1] (viewed on Sept. 23, 2010).; "Sponsored by: Ohio Department of Education, Division [sic] of Career-Technical and Adult Education [and] U.S. Department of Education, National Institute for Literacy."; Brochure; intended to be printed

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