QuIRK's Assessment Protocol part of QuIRK:QR Assessment
Selecting a Sample of Student Papers In 2001, Carleton's Writing Program began assessing writing proficiency in student portfolios. Collected at the end of the sophomore year, Carleton's portfolio ...

Baseline Assessment Results part of QuIRK:QR Assessment
"Even for works that are not inherently quantitative, one or two numeric facts can help convey the importance or context of your topic." -Jane E. Miller, The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers Many ...

The Case for Integrating Writing and QR part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"numbers [are] the principal language of public argument" -Website for the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less In "The Case for Quantitative Literacy" Steen (2001) warns, "The world of the ...

Designing a Quantitative Reasoning Program: The QuIRK Experience part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"Curricular talk tends to be dominated by disciplines....With no discipline naturally exercising leadership, there is neither an insistent nor a consistent call to make quantitative literacy a priority of ...

Other QR Programs and Resources part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
National Organizations in Support of Quantitative Reasoning National Numeracy Network American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Mathematical Association of America's quantitative literacy ...

Infusing Quantitative Reasoning Throughout the Curriculum part of QuIRK:Curricular Materials
"The ability to apply quantitative methods to real-world problems requires a facility and an insight and intuition that can be developed only through repeated practice. Thus quantitative material needs to ...

QuIRK's Example Responses to Application Prompts part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
1. What is the status of Quantitative Reasoning programming on your campus? In 2003, Carleton faculty created a working group to discuss quantitative reasoning in student work. After sharing anecdotes that ...

QuIRK-Sponsored Presentations at Carleton's Learning and Teaching Center part of QuIRK
"How Do We Teach Quantitative Reasoning? We Foster a Conspiracy," Deborah Hughes Hallett (University of Arizona and Harvard University), April 24, 2008. "Empirical Methods in Humanities Research ...

QuIRK's NSF Project part of QuIRK
Project Abstract With support from the NSF, QuIRK is adapting for dissemination its innovative protocol for assessing quantitative reasoning (QR) in student writing. Toward that end, QuIRK will work with six ...

Hampshire College part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 2010:Context
1. What is the status of Quantitative Reasoning programming on your campus? Most of our work on quantitative reasoning has been in the context of first-year courses. All students must take a science course, and ...