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, 2012 This paper examines whether selected stakeholder groups believe accounting should continue to be taught as an elective subject in its current form at New Zealand secondary schools or whether incorporating a financial literacy component would increase the
Low, Mary, Taylor, Jordan, Samkin, Grant
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Reading at risk: why effective literacy practice is not effective.
, 2010 The gap between high and low achievers in reading is wide in New Zealand compared to other countries as shown in PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) 2001 and 2006 studies.
Sheilpa Patel, Patel, Sheilpa
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas +3 more
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Unquantifiable: The Impacts of Len Vacher
NumeracyThis 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
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Parts of the Whole: Only Connect
Numeracy, 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
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Implementing critical literacy in a Tongan bilingual classroom
, 2010 This report describes a research study which trialled a unit of work designed for senior high school levels in a Tongan bilingual classroom. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the appropriateness and possible benefits of using critical ...
Vea, Peseti Tupou'ila
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The integration of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) in higher education is reshaping student engagement, yet its impact on postgraduate international students remains underexplored. This study examines how generative AI shapes postgraduate international students' engagement through a psychological needs perspective.
Olatunji David Adekoya +4 more
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Development of an Assessment of Quantitative Literacy for Miami University
Numeracy, 2011 Quantitative Literacy is a competence as important as general literacy; yet, while writing requirements are seemingly ubiquitous across the college curriculum, quantitative literacy requirements are not.
Rose Marie Ward +2 more
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Functional Literacy, Educational Attainment and Earnings - A Multi-Country Comparison [PDF]
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.
Kevin J Denny +2 more
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Beyond the phonics debate: Blending code and context in classroom reading instruction
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This mixed‐methods study adds to the body of knowledge around current reported practices of teachers of reading in the early years of schooling in Australia. It provides a comprehensive analysis of 254 teachers' practices and perspectives as reported by the study participants.
Rachelle Naidu +2 more
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