Woolcott, Geoff

Galligan, Linda

Whannell, Robert

Marshman, Margaret

Axelsen, Taryn

2019

This paper is a preliminary investigation into first year undergraduate students’ progress in academic numeracy studies across six Australian regional universities. The paper analyses a survey of university teachers, follow-up interviews and secondary academic numeracy data. Initial findings are presented in terms of the nature of academic numeracy required in the subjects offered and support strategies provided. The study suggests that support services are not contributing well to attrition in subjects requiring academic numeracy. Some effects are due to the diversity of the student body and further research is needed on both localised and cross-university approaches that focus on student’s goals and personal agency.

Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice (Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia), p. 779-786

9781920846312

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29856

Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)

Academic numeracy and first year undergraduate studies across six regional universities

Conference Publication

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