The role of self-esteem, optimism, deliberative thinking and self-control in shaping the financial behavior and financial well-being of young adults. by Fatima Hashmi, Hira Aftab, José Moleiro Martins, Mário Nuno Mata, Hamza Ahmad Qureshi, António Abreu, Pedro Neves Mata

“…Research focusing on the psychological aspect of human financial behavior and well-being is scarce, focusing more on the cognitive side such as financial literacy and numeracy. The aim of this research study is to find the role played by the non-cognitive factors such as self-esteem, self-control, optimism and deliberative thinking, in forming the financial behavior and financial well-being of the young adults. …”
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Embodied eco-embroidery by Janne Iren Robberstad, Randi Veiteberg Kvellestad

“… The UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) addresses equal access to quality education, focusing on literacy, numeracy and the science-field STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), - seemingly forgetting the importance of developing practical skills like craftsmanship. …”
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Measuring early childhood development in multiple contexts: the internal factor structure and reliability of the early Human Capability Index in seven low and middle income countri... by Alanna Sincovich, Tess Gregory, Cristian Zanon, Daniel D. Santos, John Lynch, Sally A. Brinkman

“…Results Confirmatory factor analyses and internal consistency coefficients demonstrated that after local adaptation, translation, and different implementation methods across countries, the eHCI maintained the same factor structure of nine theoretically-based developmental domains: Physical Health, Verbal Communication, Cultural Knowledge, Social and Emotional Skills, Perseverance, Approaches to Learning, Numeracy, Reading, and Writing. Conclusions Findings support the aims of the eHCI in being adaptable and applicable for use within a range of low and middle income countries to facilitate measurement and monitoring of children’s early development, as is required for the tracking of progress towards the Sustainable Development Agenda.…”
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Domain-Specific Stimulation of Executive Functioning in Low-Performing Students with a Roma Background: Cognitive Potential of Mathematics by Iveta Kovalčíková, Jochanan Veerbeek, Bart Vogelaar, Alena Prídavková, Ján Ferjenčík, Edita Šimčíková, Blanka Tomková

“…To assess the children’s level of EF, the Delis–Kaplan executive function system test battery was used; to assess children’s mathematical achievement, the cognitive abilities test (the numeracy battery), and ZAREKI—a neuropsychological test battery for numerical processing and calculation—were used. …”
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Interpreting Sheepskin Effects of Investment in Schooling by Tayyeb Shabbir, Javed Ashraf

“…Thus understanding more fully the sheepskin mechanism, will allow us to better appreciate the role of schooling and degree completion in determining earnings.According to the results of this paper, the sheepskin effects prove to be robust both to an inclusion of measures of innate ability as measured by Raven Progressive Matrices and ‘cognitive’ ability that is based on specially administrated tests of literacy and numeracy as well as measures of family background.This is an important finding with significant policy implications for the debate on the social vs. private returns to schooling investments. …”
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Orthographic neighborhood size volatility analysis in the context of writing assessment by Rex Taibu, Eric Cheung, Weier Ye, Vazgen Shekoyan, Sunil Dehipawala, George Tremberger, Tak Cheung

“…Writing assessment was conducted using the orthographic neighborhood size as a numerical measure of transforming literacy to numeracy. The neighborhood size was calculated using the free online CLEARPOND technology from Northwestern University. …”
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Racial Disparities in HIV Antiretroviral Medication Management are Mediated by Health Literacy by Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Raphiel Jamale Murden, Ying Guo, Marcia Holstad, Raymond L. Ownby

“…A measure of problem-solving (how to manage a mock ARV regimen) showed significantly different performance by race and that HL measures (both reading comprehension and numeracy) mediated this relationship. Key Results: Findings suggest that although PLWH may be able to verbally explain how they are supposed to take their ARV medication, challenges may arise with management issues (eg, determining need for a refill, counting pills to determine if a dose was missed) and that PLWH with low HL (who are disproportionately AA) may be at greater risk for mistakes. …”
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What matters most for early childhood development? Evidence from Malda district, India. by Rayhan S K

“…<h4>Results</h4>It has been found that only about 25% of children are developmentally on track of literacy-numeracy domain of ECD. Although, in the other domains, the situation is better. …”
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Physician trainees' decision making and information processing: choice size and Medicare Part D. by Andrew J Barnes, Yaniv Hanoch, Melissa Martynenko, Stacey Wood, Thomas Rice, Alex D Federman

“…After adjusting for decision process and strategy, numeracy, and amount of medical training, the odds were 10.75 times higher that trainees would choose the lowest cost Medicare Part D drug plan when facing 3 versus 9 drug plans (p<0.05). …”
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Boys’ underachievement in mathematics and science: An analysis of national and international assessment data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Mahmoud A. A. Elsayed, Aidan Clerkin, Vasiliki Pitsia, Nayyaf Aljabri, Khaleel Al-Harbi

“…The findings also indicated that although greater literacy and numeracy readiness was linked with higher science achievement among boys and girls, grade 4 boys tended to benefit more from this readiness than girls. …”
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Effects of a free school breakfast programme on school attendance, achievement, psychosocial function, and nutrition: a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial by Maddison Ralph, Michie Jo, Jiang Yannan, Gorton Delvina, Turley Maria, Ni Mhurchu Cliona, Hattie John

“…Secondary outcomes are academic achievement (literacy, numeracy, self-reported grades), sense of belonging at school, psychosocial function, dietary habits, and food security. …”
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Understanding Cognitive Deficits in People with High Blood Pressure by Weixi Kang, Sònia Pineda Hernández

“…. [−0.15, −0.08]), and number series (t(259) = −4.76, <i>p</i> < 0.01, Cohen’s d = −0.08, 95% C.I. [−0.11, −0.05]) and numeracy tasks (t(259) = −4.16, <i>p</i> < 0.01, Cohen’s d = −0.06, 95% C.I. [−0.09, −0.03]) after controlling for demographic characteristics. …”
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Early childhood development and urban environment in Mexico. by Francisco-Javier Prado-Galbarro, Carolina Pérez-Ferrer, Ana Ortigoza, Nancy Paulina López-Olmedo, Ariela Braverman-Bronstein, Rosalba Rojas-Martínez, Filipa de Castro, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez

“…Inadequate literacy-numeracy knowledge was associated inversely with the availability of daycare centers (OR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.32, 0.97), and directly associated with the number of hospitals and clinics (OR = 1.87, 95% CI: 1.29, 2.72). …”
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The use of mass media by mothers and its association with their children’s early development: comparison between urban and rural areas by M Mofizul Islam

“…The ECD was calculated using four domains of development: physical health, literacy-numeracy, learning and social-emotional. Mothers’ use of newspapers/magazines, radio, television, internet and mobile phones was the study factor. …”
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An exploration of assessment approaches in a vocational and education training courses in Australia by Bronwyn Ewing

“…Methods These issues gave rise to trialling three assessment strategies: diagnostic, scenario and simulated assessment in a project that investigated the teaching and learning of numeracy in Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses with high Indigenous student enrolments. …”
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Red Dirt Thinking on Educational Disadvantage by John Guenther, Melodie Bat, Sam Osborne

“…A range of data support this view, including the National Action Plan—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) achievement data, school attendance data, Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data and other compilations such as the Productivity Commission's biennial Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report. …”
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Item difficulty analysis of a high-stakes mathematics examination using Rasch analysis: The case of sequences and series by Mark Jacobs, Duncan Mhakure, Richard L. Fray, Lorna Holtman, Cyril Julie

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Well-Posed Geoscientific Visualization Through Interactive Color Mapping by Peter E. Morse, Anya M. Reading, Anya M. Reading, Tobias Stål, Tobias Stål

“…Well-posed scientific visualization requires both “visual literacy” and “visual numeracy” on an equal footing with clearly written text. …”
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Extending the study of decision making competence to special populations: A case study of persons on the autism spectrum by Irwin eLevin, Gary eGaeth, Megan eFoley-Nicpon, Megan eFoley-Nicpon, Vita eYegorova, Charles eCederberg, Haoyang eYan

“…Traditional elements of decision making competency such as Numeracy and application of decision rules were comparable across groups. …”
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A receptionist robot for Brazilian people: study on interaction involving illiterates by Trovato Gabriele, Ramos Josue G., Azevedo Helio, Moroni Artemis, Magossi Silvia, Simmons Reid, Ishii Hiroyuki, Takanishi Atsuo

“…This inequality results in the presence of functional illiterate people, unable to use reading, writing and numeracy skills. We invited Brazilian people, including a group of functionally illiterate subjects, to interact with two types of receptionists differing in physical appearance (agent v mechanical robot) and in the sound of the voice (human like v mechanical). …”
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