Quantitative literacy has been recognized as an important skill in the higher education and
workforce communities, focusing on problem solving, reasoning, and real‐world application …

Journalists are tasked with holding power to account; often, that means evaluating and
interpreting numbers. But anecdotally, journalists are ill at ease with figures. This …

Journalists need a clear understanding of numbers and to be comfortable communicating
them if they are to perform their role of informing the public and holding power to account …

There is substantial evidence that first year business students have difficulty with quantitative
subjects, and the literature examines some of the underlying causes of poor results in …

History and social sciences educators have been charged with ensuring that our students
are quantitatively literate. Being able to integrate research data in the form of graphs, charts …

Large numbers permeate political life, and students of political science can expect to
encounter a wide range of numbers in newspaper articles, course readings, and statistics …

Research has continued to support the need for investigating the role of pedagogical
models in relation to students' statistical anxiety, statistical self-efficacy, and academic …

In a previous article, we described our college's new core curriculum, which included a
Quantitative Literacy (QL) component for the first time. We explained how we defined QL in …

The concept of the journalistic field as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and his collaborators
has proved fruitful for media theorists. The present article arose out of considerations linking …

The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the impact of writing prompts and
graphic organizers on Mona school's 7th and 8th grade students' mathematical academic …