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Felgate, Rachel, Mary Minnis, and Ian Schagen. "Some results from the analysis of data from the National Numeracy Project." Research Papers in Education 15, no. 2 (January 2000): 163–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/026715200402489.

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Ahmed, Shazia, and Ruth Douglas. "Success in employers’ numeracy tests." MSOR Connections 17, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21100/msor.v17i2.983.

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Final year students applying for graduate jobs in industry are often required to sit numeracy tests as part of the recruitment process. Students in the College of Arts can be disadvantaged in this area as, often, the last time they will have come across any Mathematics will have been at National 5, GCSE or equivalent level (at the age of 15 or 16). This project was a collaboration between the Mathematics & Statistics support within the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service (LEADS) and the Careers Service to create a repository of resources designed to help students refresh their basic mathematical skills and give them the confidence to tackle Employers’ Numeracy tests successfully. A Moodle course including videos and tailored learning materials was created to enable students to improve their confidence and ability in relevant mathematical and statistical skills, as well as sample tests (both timed and untimed) to give students an idea of what to expect in a real assessment.
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Larsen, Sally A., Callie W. Little, Katrina Grasby, Brian Byrne, Richard K. Olson, and William L. Coventry. "The Academic Development Study of Australian Twins (ADSAT): Research Aims and Design." Twin Research and Human Genetics 23, no. 3 (June 2020): 165–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2020.49.

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AbstractThe Academic Development Study of Australian Twins was established in 2012 with the purpose of investigating the relative influence of genes and environments in literacy and numeracy capabilities across two primary and two secondary school grades in Australia. It is the first longitudinal twin project of its kind in Australia and comprises a sample of 2762 twin pairs, 40 triplet sets and 1485 nontwin siblings. Measures include standardized literacy and numeracy test data collected at Grades 3, 5, 7 and 9 as part of the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy. A range of demographic and behavioral data was also collected, some at multiple longitudinal time points. This article outlines the background and rationale for the study and provides an overview for the research design, sample and measures collected. Findings emerging from the project and future directions are discussed.
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Nthiga, Purity M., Gatitu E. Kiguru, and Phyllis W. Mwangi. "Adult education and development." Msingi Journal 1, no. 1 (February 8, 2019): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33886/mj.v1i1.93.

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The Incheon Declaration 2015- “Towards 2030: a new vision for education,” recognizes the important role of education as the main driver of development, and therefore commits to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all(p. i).” The declaration further commits to “ensuring that all youth and adults, especially girls and women, achieve relevant and recognized functional literacy and numeracy levels and acquire life skills and that they are provided with adult learning and training opportunities (p. 7).”” This commitment is a clear recognition of the role of adult education in development. Sadly, although adult education and lifelong learning are key for achieving social change and reducing poverty levels, the sector receives minimal attention in development matters in many African countries. According to UNESCO the adult education sub-sector of state education systems remains relatively underfunded and marginal despite the improved living conditions in many African countries since the 1990s. Few countries have specific, ratified national adult education policies while in some others adult education is seen as a human right but only practically enforceable subject to availability of resources. This paper outlines evidence of positive changes accrued from literacy and skills training project in one region in Somaliland. In addition to literacy and numeracy, the participants in the project were trained in tailoring or cookery as well as on health, nutrition, hygiene and entrepreneurship. More so, the project offered micro-credit to those wishing to start small businesses. Major developmental changes including employment, healthier families, businesses and better civic participation were realized by the individual participants, their families and the community. From this evidence the paper argues that it is important for countries in Africa to seriously harness the adult education sub-sector for development as one way of translating the Incheon commitment to tangible achievements
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Dixon, Sally, and Denise Angelo. "Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 213–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.37.3.02dix.

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As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in school system data. A proliferation of inaccurate, illogical and incomplete data exists about students’ home languages and their status as English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) learners in schools. This is strongly suggestive of the fact that ‘language’ is not perceived by school systems as a significant operative variable in student performance, not even in the current education climate of data-driven improvement. Moreover, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), the annual standardised testing regime, does not collect relevant information on students’ language repertoires and levels of proficiency in Standard Australian English (SAE). Indigenous students who are over-represented in NAPLAN under-performance data are targeted through ‘Closing the Gap’ for interventions to raise their literacy and numeracy achievements (in SAE). However, Indigenous students who are EAL/D learners cannot be disaggregated by system data from their counterparts already fluent in SAE. Reasons behind such profound language invisibility are discussed, as well as the implications for social inclusion of Indigenous students in education.
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Johnston, Jenny. "Australian NAPLAN testing: In what ways is this a ‘wicked’ problem?" Improving Schools 20, no. 1 (October 21, 2016): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1365480216673170.

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This article employs Rittel and Webber’s ‘wicked’ problem as a heuristic device for enhancing understanding about National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing in the Australian education context. Using a research project with seven independent schools in New South Wales, Australia, which analysed NAPLAN data from primary (elementary) students in years 3 and 5, this article highlights the ‘wicked’ nature of the problem of NAPLAN testing, and standardised testing more generally. The research project, as a catalyst for the article, evidenced a set of difficulties, particularly for smaller primary schools, and highlighted the ways in which these schools experienced many of the challenges that the literature indicates are evident in the current regimes of standardised testing. The article focusses on problematising NAPLAN’s use in Australia and uses the literature to critique its application. It then outlines Rittel and Webber’s criteria that determine whether a problem might be ‘wicked’ and applies this as a lens for considering NAPLAN testing. In problematising NAPLAN testing and applying wicked problem theory to the issue, this article asserts that many of the challenges can be managed and indeed may empower and liberate stakeholders.
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Whitburn, Julia. "Mathematical Attainments in Primary Schooling: Raising Standards and Reducing Diversity." National Institute Economic Review 179 (January 2002): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795010217900109.

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Concern over poor standards in mathematics among English school leavers has led to a number of government initiatives in recent years. Without a secure foundation of mathematical understanding and competence during the primary school years, later learning in mathematics is problematic. This paper examines recent major initiatives at the primary stage of schooling and their effect on raising standards, including the National Numeracy Strategy and the Improving Primary Mathematics (IPM) project. The latter project, influenced by successful Continental approaches to teaching mathematics, aimed both to raise average standards of attainment and to reduce the large variation in attainment that has, in the past, characterised the performance of English pupils.Although the new teaching approaches, and the innovatively detailed teaching materials, developed by the IPM project have enabled significant improvements to be effected, concern remains over the low attainment in England of an unduly large proportion of pupils (as compared with Continental schools). It is suggested that serious consideration needs to be given to adopting arrangements that are the norm in several other countries — namely, to introduce some flexibility in age of entry to schooling (at present in England this is governed strictly by date of birth). Such a change would, it is suggested, significantly reduce the number of low attainers and range of attainment within a class, and make a teacher's task of successful interactive whole-class teaching more manageable.
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Pestovs, Pāvels, Dace Namsone, Līga Čakāne, and Ilze Saleniece. "ALIGNMENT OF 6TH GRADE LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENT CONSTRUCTS WITH THE REVISED CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (May 21, 2019): 387. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2019vol2.3811.

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One of the goals of the National Development Plan 2014-2020 is to reduce the proportion of students with low cognitive skills, and at the same time increase the proportion of students with higher level cognitive skills. In line with those goals, the National Centre for Education is implementing the project “Competency-based approach to curriculum”, funded by the European Social Fund. The purpose of the research described in this article is to find out to what extent the current large-scale national assessments for 6th Grade are coherent with the new curriculum and what improvements are needed for aligning the national assessments with the national curriculum. The theoretical framework of the research is developed by analysing the frameworks of the programme for international student assessment (PISA), trends in international mathematics and science study (TIMSS), progress in international reading literacy study (PIRLS), as well as the framework of the revised national curriculum in Latvia. National 6th Grade assessments of the year 2018 are analysed by using Classical test theory and Rasch model. The indicators of the test items are mapped according to the developed theoretical framework. Authors conclude that the national 6th Grade tests assess the elements of literacy, numeracy and scientific literacy. Students have a high level of performance in test items with low cognitive depths, but there is an insufficient number of test items with high cognitive depths, allowing pupils to demonstrate skills in new contexts, which is an essential goal of the new national curriculum. Further research is required on the use of data from the large-scale assessment in supporting and guiding student instruction and learning.
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Kok, Lyn. "A science-technology-society approach to teacher education for the foundation phase: Students’ empiricist views." South African Journal of Childhood Education 4, no. 1 (July 1, 2014): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v4i1.180.

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<p>Teacher education for South African foundation phase education requires student<br />teachers to be prepared for teaching science concepts in an integrated programme in a<br />learning area known as life skills . This study examined the challenges faced by university<br />teachers of foundation phase student teachers in the development of science modules/<br />courses. The national curriculum for this subject aims to strengthen learner awareness<br />of social relationships, technological processes and elementary science (DBE 2011a). We<br />developed an integrated numeracy, science and technology module for foundation phase<br />student teachers, based on the science-technology-society (STS) approach to teaching<br />science concepts. Students’ understanding of science concepts was assessed, using a<br />project method in which they solved a problem derived from children’s literature. Then<br />students’ views of this integrated approach to teaching science concepts were gathered.<br />The negative views of the foundation phase student teachers towards the integrated STS<br />approach was thought to indicate an empiricist view of the nature of science that could<br />impede their future teaching.</p>
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Prais, S. J. "Within-classroom grouping: a rejoinder." National Institute Economic Review 169 (July 1999): 109–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795019916900112.

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Let us briefly remind ourselves of the current policy-context of this issue in Britain. The need to raise children's schooling attainments to a very substantial extent has become widely accepted in the past fifteen years following international comparisons (many based on research at this Institute) of workforce vocational qualifications and school-leaving standards. The consequences are expressed today in interventionist public policy in terms of a National Curriculum laid down for all school-ages (adopted ten years ago), together with more recent detailed syllabuses in the core subjects of language and mathematics embodied in the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies for primary schools (adopted in the past two years). Much of the need for such reforms in Britain can be traced to worries as to whether teaching time was well spent, particularly in primary schools using ‘modern’ teaching methods which required children within each classroom to be divided into small groups, each group sitting around its own small table, many children not facing the wall-board (many classrooms even having their wall-board removed) so as to promote less ‘didactic’ teaching and more ‘discovery’ learning by pupils. The frequently ensuing difficulties of teachers in dividing their time effectively among those groups, the consequential frustration of those children who awaited the teacher's attention, the slower general pace of learning, and the particular disadvantages suffered by slower-developing children, need not be spelled out here; they have been closely examined in research involving timed classroom observation, such as the ‘Oracle’ project of Professor Maurice Galton and his colleagues.
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Books on the topic "National Numeracy Project"

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Minnis, Mary. National Numeracy Project: Technical report. Slough: National Foundation for Educational Research, 1999.

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Force, Numeracy Task. Numeracy matters: The preliminary report of the Numeracy Task Force : published for consultation January 1998. London: DfEE, 1998.

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Minnis, Felgate, and Schagen. National Numeracy Project: Technical Report 1998. National Foundation for Educational Research, 1999.

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National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy., ed. National numeracy project: Framework for teaching mathematics. Reading: National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy, 1998.

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The National numeracy project: An HMI evaluation : a report from the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools. [London]: Ofsted, 1998.

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