#numeracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #numeracy, aggregated by home.social.
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Link post:
"#Scotland’s #schools surging ahead of those in England in #literacy and #numeracy #attainment"
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Australia is marching headlong into the American trap. Private schools are well funded fortresses of privilege, producing the “winners,” while public schools are left to carry the load with fewer resources, higher needs, and falling results. It’s a system that dumbifies the general population while propping up a narrow elite. If we keep going down this path, we’ll soon need to import our top professionals (just like the USA) because we’ll be too stupid to grow our own.
Now comes the federal government’s grand solution: the Teaching and Learning Commission, a new mega-agency to merge four education bodies into one. It’s being sold as the fix for falling Year 12 completion rates, declining literacy and numeracy, and a public system on life support. Targets are ambitious, lift completions, raise NAPLAN results, cut the literacy/numeracy gap.
But will this actually solve the problem ? Or just centralise power, add bureaucracy, and give ministers more distance from the classroom? Unless inequality is tackled headon and public schools properly funded and supported, no shiny new commission will save us. We can’t keep outsourcing education to private schools and expecting public education to limp along.
Australia doesn’t need another bureaucratic restructure. We need equity, investment, and faith in teachers. Otherwise, we’ll just become a nation of imported smarts and local mediocrity.#education #australia #privateschools #publicschools #equity #inequality #teachers #literacy #numeracy #policy #boganNation #auspol
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A not so great observation for #experimentalEcon:
"Results indicate that misunderstanding is common: the proportion of participants who misunderstood ranged from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 70 % (#Trust Game) in the online samples and from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 53 % (Public Goods Game) in the lab sample. Incentivizing the comprehension questions had no significant impact on misunderstanding, but #numeracy was associated with lower misunderstanding. Misunderstanding also predicted increased prosocial behavior in several of the games. Our findings suggest that misunderstanding may be important in explaining prosocial behavior, making it more complicated to draw clear inferences about #socialPreferences from experimental data."
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107039
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‘just because it’s digital doesn't mean it's accurate’ news now…
43 studies comparing student tests on computer vs paper #education #literacy #numeracy #WorkingMemory #CognitiveLoad https://phys.org/news/2024-08-students-paper.html
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Do you expect #kids to learn #math better alone, collaboratively, or competitively?
In a study of 274 1st and 2nd graders, it varied by gender (and not how I would have expected).
Boys performed better after working alone or collaboratively, but didn’t seem to benefit from competition.
On the harder tasks, girls benefitted *only* from competition.
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Why #OpenData Alone Is Not Enough (it never was, of course, but it's useful to remind it) http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/st_essay_datafireworks #activeCitizenship #digitalLiteracy #education #numeracy