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Download full textFrith, Vera; Lloyd, Pam – Pythagoras, 2016
The ability to reason about numbers in relative terms is essential for quantitative literacy, which is necessary for studying academic disciplines and for critical citizenship. However, the ability to reason with proportions is known to be difficult to learn and to take a long time to develop. To determine how well higher education applicants can…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Benchmarking, Multiple Choice Tests
Direct linkClarence, Sherran – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Teaching and learning is a growing field of research and practice globally, and increasing investments are being made in developing academics as teachers. An inability to adequately account for disciplinary knowledge can lead to academic development inputs that are unable to fully address the needs of students, educators, or disciplines…
Descriptors: Semantics, Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods, College Faculty
Abrahams, Fatima; Friedrich, Christian; Tredoux, Nanette – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
South African higher education institutions are experiencing challenges regarding access, redress and the successful completion of programmes in an environment where there are still imbalances in the schooling system. Tools are needed that will assist with the process of selecting students. The aim of this study is to determine whether a test…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Test Results, Abstract Reasoning, Gender Differences
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics
