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False Positives And Referral Bias: Content For A Quantitative Literacy Course, Stuart Boersma, Teri Willard Jul 2008

False Positives And Referral Bias: Content For A Quantitative Literacy Course, Stuart Boersma, Teri Willard

Numeracy

An extended study of accuracy in medical screening is presented as a useful application to increase students’ quantitative reasoning skills. Two detailed examples are presented. The first explores the frequency of obtaining false positive results from a medical screening tool while the second examines the issue of referral bias and its effect on the apparent sensitivity and specificity of the screening tool. Results from student assessments indicate that the activity increases one’s ability to define terms such as “false positive” and “false negative” and increases one’s ability to read and compute with information obtained from a two-way table. Teacher assessment …


Using Local Data To Advance Quantitative Literacy, Stephen Sweet, Susanne Morgan, Danette Ifert Johnson Jul 2008

Using Local Data To Advance Quantitative Literacy, Stephen Sweet, Susanne Morgan, Danette Ifert Johnson

Numeracy

In this article we consider the application of local data as a means of advancing quantitative literacy. We illustrate the use of three different sources of local data: institutional data, Census data, and the National College Health Assessment survey. Our learning modules are applied in courses in sociology and communication, but the strategy of using local data can be integrated beyond these disciplinary boundaries. We demonstrate how these data can be used to stimulate student interests in class discussion, advance analytic skills, as well as develop capacities in written and verbal communication. We conclude by considering concerns that may influence …


Quantitative Literacy Across The Curriculum: A Case Study, Benjamin Steele, Semra Kiliç-Bahi Jul 2008

Quantitative Literacy Across The Curriculum: A Case Study, Benjamin Steele, Semra Kiliç-Bahi

Numeracy

We describe a quantitative literacy (QL) program at Colby-Sawyer College, a small, residential, liberal arts college in New Hampshire. This program has grown rapidly from a traditional math curriculum to a college-wide understanding of quantitative literacy and voluntary participation by many faculty members in all departments. More than 80% of the faculty agreed that it would be useful for students to be able to use quantitative skills in their courses, but only 24 % thought students were capable of doing very well in mathematics. Twenty-three faculty members attended a summer workshop, funded by NSF, DUE # 0633133, in which they …


Quantitative Literacy On The Web Of Science, 1: The Bibliography And Its Role In The History Of This Journal, H L. Vacher, Todd Chavez Jul 2008

Quantitative Literacy On The Web Of Science, 1: The Bibliography And Its Role In The History Of This Journal, H L. Vacher, Todd Chavez

Numeracy

Prior to deciding to propose in 2006 that the National Numeracy Network (NNN) publish a new journal for quantitative literacy with their support, the University of South Florida Libraries investigated the publication environment of the field on the Web of Science®. Reproducing part of that study in this paper, we present findings from topic searches (March 2008) for “numeracy,” “quantitative literacy,” and “statistical literacy.” These updated results include a combined bibliography of 338 peer-reviewed articles amongst 210 different journals, by 748 authors from 321 institutions in 25 countries, in a total of 87 subjects (34% of the subject classes in …


Abstracts For Numeracy, H L. Vacher Jul 2008

Abstracts For Numeracy, H L. Vacher

Numeracy

No abstract provided.


Intratexturealities: The Poetics Of The Freedom Schools, Vonzell Agosto Apr 2008

Intratexturealities: The Poetics Of The Freedom Schools, Vonzell Agosto

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications

Freedom Schools, which operated during 1964 after the collaborative efforts of several Civil Rights organizations, provided an opportunity to understand how students can drive the curriculum to meet individual and collective needs within a community. The presence and use of poetry throughout the Freedom Schools was mysterious, given that it is virtually absent in the curriculum guide, memos, and documents prepared by the administrative staff members and teachers. Students’ poetry not only revealed the intersections and layers of lived experience, society, and culture, but also their agency in the context of an anti-oppressive education project.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Mar 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Intertextualidad en las reformas educativas: reflexiones sobre la equidad en la reforma escolar Sueca / Guadalupe Francia.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Feb 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Exclusión a la inclusión: políticas y prácticas de la universidad Española respecto a los alumnos con déficit auditivo/ Manuel López Torrijo.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/03 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/03 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Avoidable losses : high-stakes accountability and the dropout crisis / Linda McSpadden McNeil,Eileen Coppola,Judy Radigan [and] Julian Vasquez Heilig.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/04 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/04 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Modelos de clase latente en la evaluación de la educación : caso del aprovechamiento escolar en la educación primaria de Zacatecas / Francisco Muro González.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Achievement testing for English language learners, ready or not?/ Sau-Lim Tsang, Anne Katz [and] Jim Stack.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/02 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2008

Education Policy Analysis Archives 16/02 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Mídia, juventude e educação: modos de construir o "outro" na cultura/ Rosa Maria Bueno Fischer.


Let's Take A Hike In Catoctin Mountain Park, Meghan Lindsey Jan 2008

Let's Take A Hike In Catoctin Mountain Park, Meghan Lindsey

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This Spreadsheet Across the Curriculum activity imagines that a Geology of National Parks student is in the Washington DC area and went to Catoctin Mountain Park MD to hike one of the trails with a friend. The hikers were given a topographic map and a trail map of the park and, after the hike in which they enjoyed seeing the geology, they used the map information to determine how many calories they burned off during the hike. For the purpose of the module, students back home in a Geology of National Parks course are told which hike to take (a …


Accounting For Gifted Education: Making A Case For Reporting And Transparency, Elizabeth Shaunessy, Michael Matthews Jan 2008

Accounting For Gifted Education: Making A Case For Reporting And Transparency, Elizabeth Shaunessy, Michael Matthews

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Teacher Capacity And Social Justice In Teacher Education, Carl A. Grant, Vonzell Agosto Jan 2008

Teacher Capacity And Social Justice In Teacher Education, Carl A. Grant, Vonzell Agosto

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications

In this chapter we discuss social justice and teacher capacity, an amalgam of teachers’ knowledge, skills and dispositions, by posing and answering three questions. How should education professionals define the concept of social justice? What is the relationship between teacher capacity and social justice? What are teacher educators doing in scholarship and practice to bring about social justice? Our purpose is to provide teacher educators with an overview of the concepts of social justice and teacher capacity, so they may understand the relationship between the two and consider how well they are contributing to Horace Mann’s vision of education as …


The Florida Problem Solving/Response To Intervention Project: Year 1 Evaluation Report, Jose M. Castillo, C M. Hines, G M. Batsche, M J. Curtis Jan 2008

The Florida Problem Solving/Response To Intervention Project: Year 1 Evaluation Report, Jose M. Castillo, C M. Hines, G M. Batsche, M J. Curtis

Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Variables To Predict First-Year Persistence At The University Of South Florida Using Logistic Regression Analysis, Thomas E. Miller, C. H. Herreid Jan 2008

Analysis Of Variables To Predict First-Year Persistence At The University Of South Florida Using Logistic Regression Analysis, Thomas E. Miller, C. H. Herreid

Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Annual Report 2007-2008, University Of South Florida. College Of Education Jan 2008

Annual Report 2007-2008, University Of South Florida. College Of Education

College of Education Publications

No abstract provided.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/23 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/23 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Atención a la diversidad: del modelo del déficit al modelo curricular / Pilar Arnaiz Sánchez,José-Manuel Guirao Lavela [and] Carlos F. Garrido Gil.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

School commitment and alcohol use : the moderating role of race and ethnicity / Tamela McNulty Eitle [and] David James Eitle.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Modelo pedagógico en un contexto no formal : el museo / Mª Begoña Alfageme González [and] Nicolás Martínez Valcárcel.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Oct 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Equipos docentes en la dnseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria : Posibilidades e Incertidumbres/ Mª Teresa González González.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Sep 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

¿Sirven las políticas y prácticas de formación del profesorado para mejorar la educación?: Una respuesta desde el análisis de la construcción social de la docencia / Jesús Romero Morante [and] Alberto Luis Gómez.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Sep 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Fissures in standards formulation : the role of neoconservative and neoliberal discourses in justifying standards development in Wisconsin and Minnesota/ Samantha Caughlan [and] Richard Beach.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Aug 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Actitudes de los dstudiantes de odontología de la UAM-Xochimilco frente a su formación profesional / Laura Sáenz Martínez, Leonor Sánchez Pérez, Isabel Luengas Aguirre [amd] Edgar Jarillo Soto.


African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe Aug 2007

African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe

Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications

In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American–led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President’s Commission on Higher Education report Higher Education for American Democracy advocated dismantling racial, geographic, and economic barriers to college by radically expanding public higher education, to be accomplished in large part through the development of community colleges. Although these goals ere …


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/16 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jul 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/16 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

From policy design to campus : implementation of a tuition decentralization policy / Michael S. Harris.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/15 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jul 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/15 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Reformas curriculares y educación física: los conocimientos teórico- conceptuales de la población escolar Española / Juan Luis Hernández Álvarez, Roberto Velázquez Buendía [and] Ma Eugenia Martínez Gorroño.


Effects Of Dual Language Learning On Early Language And Literacy Skills In Low Income Preschool Students, Vanessa Tápanes Jul 2007

Effects Of Dual Language Learning On Early Language And Literacy Skills In Low Income Preschool Students, Vanessa Tápanes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper presents a framework for literacy skill development relating to both monolingual and dual language learners. The purpose of this study was to identify the differences that may exist between monolingual and dual language learners' performance on literacy tasks, before having a significant amount of exposure to the preschool curriculum. The sample included 78 monolingual language learners and 44 dual language learners who were assessed using the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised (WLPB-R). The researcher used scoring methods that took into consideration split vocabulary in dual language learners where a conceptual scoring technique was used (Bedore, Pena, Garcia, & Cortez, …


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/14 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jun 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/14 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Descentralización, poderes locales y participación social en educación en Bolivia. Los casos de Tarabuco y la Paz (1997-2003) / Mario Yapu.