Numeracy and Quantitative Reasoning part of NICHE
Contents What is Numeracy? The Importance of Quantitative Reasoning Numeracy Outside the United States Videos about Quantitative Reasoning Videos about Numbers Notes Sources Cited The Numeracy Infusion Course for ...

Examples of Quantitative Reasoning Programs part of NICHE
Math Across the Curriculum at Marquette University. A discussion of the QR initiative at Wellesley College. ...

Examples of QR Assessment Instruments part of NICHE
× Are you interested in quickly assessing your numeracy skills? Try this 2-minute numeracy test to get quick feedback! There are a variety of Quantitative Reasoning (QR) assessment instruments that have been ...

Internet Exercises and Modules for Teaching Quantitative Reasoning Skills part of NICHE
× There are a variety of collections of exercises and modules publicly available on the Internet that users may borrow or adapt for use in their own instruction (please obtain permission when necessary ...

Assessing Quantitative Reasoning part of NICHE
Evaluating the Effectiveness of One's Own Teaching Assessing student learning is a vital component of any initiative to improve students' QR/QL skills. The purpose of assessment is to gather information ...

Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum part of NICHE
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching QR Many scholars have called for a multidisciplinary, active learning approach to QR instruction. As Steen (2008: 19) states, "The success of writing across the ...

Teaching Materials for Mathematical, QR and Statistical Skills part of NICHE
There are a wide array of resources on the Internet for strengthening fundamental quantitative, mathematical, statistical and computer skills. A sampling of several of them is included below broken down into five ...

Best Practices for Quantitative Reasoning Instruction part of NICHE
In her book Powerful Learning: What we Know about Teaching for Understanding, Darling-Hammond (2008: 5) argues that meaningful learning is accomplished through a number of key approaches including: "(1) ...

Reference Materials part of NICHE
× × This page provides an inventory of organizations and written resources (books, articles and book chapters) on Numeracy, Quantitative Reasoning (QR) and Statistical Literacy. It is broken down into ...

Quantitative Reasoning Learning Goals part of NICHE
In the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom (1984) developed a taxonomy of educational objectives that consisted of three domains: (1) psychomotor ("doing/hands"), (2) cognitive ("knowing/head"), and (3) ...