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Pugalee, David K.; Hartman, Kimberly J.; Forrester, Jennifer H. – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2009
Quantitative literacy involves a set of skills necessary to reason about data. Such skills are imperative in our increasingly data-oriented world. Despite the importance of such skills, assessment of quantitative literacy has not been a focus in education and there is a lack of assessment tools that specifically address these skills. This study…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Scoring, Numeracy, Grade 6
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne, Ed.; Holm, Lars, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2012
"Literacy Practices in Transition" explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Trends