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Wilkins, Jesse L. M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
Quantitative literacy (QLT) represents an underlying higher-order construct that accounts for a person's willingness to engage in quantitative situations in everyday life. The purpose of this study is to retest the construct validity of a model of quantitative literacy (Wilkins, 2010). In this model, QLT represents a second-order factor that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Numeracy, Construct Validity, Models
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Edge, Orlyn P.; Friedberg, Stephen H. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1984
American College Testing Program (ACT) scores, high school rank, high school GPA, high school algebra grades, algebra pretest score, sex, birth order, family size, and high school size were used to predict course grades in the first semester of college calculus. The best predictors were the algebra pretest and high school rank. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Birth Order, Calculus, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations