Towards Developing a Quantitative Literacy/Reasoning Assessment Instrument

Authors

Eric C. Gaze, Bowdoin College
Aaron Montgomery, Central Washington UniversityFollow
Semra Kilic-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College
Deann Leoni, Edmonds Community College
Linda Misener, Southern Maine Community College
Corrine Taylor, Wellesley College

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Mathematics

Publication Date

7-15-2014

Abstract

This article reports on the development and implementation of a non-proprietary assessment instrument for Quantitative Literacy/Reasoning. This instrument was based on prior work by Bowdoin College, Colby-Sawyer College, and Wellesley College and was piloted in 2012 and 2013. This article presents a discussion of its development as well as the results of the pilot implementation. This work was supported by a TUES Type 1 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Comments

This article was originally published open acceess in Numeracy.

Recommended Citation

Gaze, E., Montgomery, A., Kilic-Bahi, S., Leoni, D., Misener, L., & Taylor, C. (2014). Towards Developing a Quantitative Literacy/Reasoning Assessment Instrument. Numeracy, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.7.2.4

Journal

​Numeracy

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