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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Numeracy skills"”.
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Exploring the practice of supporting early childhood students’ numeracy skills through collaborative learning in working group activities
… an optimal pedagogical strategy to support early numeracy development. This study explores the application of collaborative learning in early numeracy education at the kindergarten level in Indonesia an area that remains relatively under-researched. Using a qualitative approach, data were …
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Investigation Of Competence In Numeracy Skills Amongst Form I Entrants In Tanzania: A case Of Schools In Eastern Inspectorate Zone
… the competence of Form I entrants in numeric skills. The focus was on identifying students’ errors on primary school mathematics, the associated misconceptions and causes. Consequently, a remedial approach was designed for intervention. The test, questionnaire and a focus-group discussion …
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Assessment of Nursing Student Numeracy
… This study addresses the question, what are the numeracy skills of RN students? The reason for asking this question is the documented deficiency in numeracy skills published for both nursing students and employees. Purpose: Nurses need numeracy skills to calculate drug dosage and IV flow rates as …
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Preschoolers' Mathematical Language Learning during Book Reading with an AI Voice Agent
… language highly associated with early numeracy skills and vocabulary development. Sixty-six participants who were recruited for home-visit and school-visit sessions were randomly assigned to one of three reading conditions to read a storybook with the AI voice agent three times: math …
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Peran saling percaya dalam membangun budaya organisasi di PT. PLN (Persero) wilayah Sumatera Utara
… meningkatkan kemampuan berhitung anak. ENGLISH: Numeracy is one of the skills that should be possessed by every invidual in a daily life. Numeracy is one of science branch which related to the times. Mathematics problem that often faced by the children in schools is less of operate arithmetic …
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Numeracy support for year two students
… in Australia suggests that the implementation of numeracy support programs can improve student achievement levels (Fuchs, 2005; Ketterlin-Geller, Chard & Fien, 2008; Van Kraayenoord & Elkins, 2004). An intervention program was conducted for a small group of Year Two students with the aim of …
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Promoting early literacy and reading skills in the Foundation Phase in Klein Letaba Circuit
… improving literacy levels can also help improve numeracy skills. This is supported by Kim (2020:97), who pointed out that improving literacy and numeracy skills is crucial to a child's learning ability to develop fully as an individual. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ …
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Wellness Information Network (WIN): A Patient Empowerment Mobile Application for Improved Health Literacy and Disease Management for Type-2 Diabetes
… healthier dietary choices, and increase diabetes numeracy skills. This study further addresses the need to enhance overall patient empowerment, such as through understanding nutritional goals and being able to pose strategic questions of health practitioners. In particular, the focus of this study …
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An action research investigation into the effectiveness of number testing of a group of young adults with learning difficulties in a further education setting
… was an investigation into the testing of number skills of young adults with learning difficulties in the further education sector. Four male students were tested for a range of numeracy skills using recognized methods. The participants’ ability to count non-concrete sets was also explored using …
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Mathematics in workplace settings: Numeracy in the mechanical engineering trades
… the nature of the mathematical knowledge and skills, and how they are applied and developed. A purposive sample of 199 apprentices, skilled tradespersons and mechanical engineering trades educators completed a questionnaire about the mathematics and numeracy skills they used, how they used and …
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Linking Developmental Working Memory and Early Academic Skills
… Current research has examined working memory skills in relationship to early learning. The function of working memory is best examined in the context of childhood developmental theory using the framework of Baddeley and Hitch's model. Understanding developmental working memory components in …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… to acquire even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills. This has serious policy implications as recent studies have shown that the quality of education apart from quantity is an important determinant of economic development. The main objective of this dissertation is to understand how …
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The Effectiveness of Science Instruction with Digital Simulations in Elementary Settings for Quantitative Sensemaking
… may impact students’ unrelated math and numeracy skills. Eight fifth-grade students received this intervention to improve their quantitative reasoning and sensemaking. Results of this study indicate that the intervention was successful in improving student sensemaking in both the …
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An Investigation of the Features and Effectiveness of the Full-Day Early Learning Kindergarten Program in Ontario
… the FDELK program promotes school readiness skills, namely self-regulation, literacy, and numeracy, in Kindergarteners. To describe the main components of an FDELK classroom in Study 1, a sub-sample of four high fidelity case study schools were selected from a larger case study sample. …
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Parental Time or Money: What Matters More for Children's School Success?
… association between poverty and low cognitive skills. Building on this research, this study provides a more nuanced analysis of the family processes through which socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with children's academic outcomes by: 1) including maternal education and family income as …
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Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Norm-Referenced and Everyday Math Performance in Community College Students
… factors separately, few have examined how such skills work together to predict math. Additionally, most prior work focuses on children or university students, and little is known about the community college population. Most prior work also focuses on norm- referenced measures of computational …
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The mathematical biographies of primary school teachers and how this may affect their teaching; a grounded theory study.
Improving numeracy skills in the UK population has been the aim of many different government education strategies over many decades. This piece of research uses grounded theory to explore the conscious psychological processes of primary school teachers when they are teaching maths to the children …
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The Mentor's Role: Exploring mentorship in a working-class neighbourhood's after-school program
… or resources that help them master literacy and numeracy skills they may need in academic settings or in the workforce. After-school programs (and their staff) can fill in the gaps. This study looked at the traits of effective mentorship as depicted by youth enrolled in and adults working at an …
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Understanding Head Teachers’ Responsibility towards Children’s Foundational Learning in Rural India: Focusing on their Perceptions, Attitudes, Barriers, and Actions
… achievement of foundational literacy and numeracy skills. Using the adjusted Reasoned Action Approach (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) as a conceptual framework, this thesis analyses the head teacher data quantitatively. Particularly, this thesis investigates the head teacher’s underlying patterns …
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