Sentence examples for numeracy item from inspiring English sources

The TOFHLA is a timed 50-item reading comprehension and 17-item numeracy item test.

A majority of participants had at least some college education, and most answered the numeracy item correctly.

The odds of endorsing multifactorial beliefs trended higher for women than men, among college graduates than those with less than a high school education, among racial/ethnic minorities than non-minorities, among rural than urban residents, and among individuals who correctly answered the numeracy item.

Overall, 49 literacy items, 49 numeracy items and 14 problem solving items were administered in the assessment.

This concerned several numeracy items (Module 1: 28.57%, Module 2: 24.49%), a few literacy items (Module 1: 4.17%, Module 2: 2.04%) and no problem solving items.

To establish common scales for the literacy and numeracy items, those items had to be linked across assessment modes for PIAAC.

Thus, random equivalent groups completed the literacy items and numeracy items in the first or the second part of the cognitive assessment, respectively, while there was only one order for the two sets of problem solving items.

In order to maintain trend measurement, the PIAAC design required that 60% of the literacy and numeracy items be taken from previous surveys, with the remaining 40% being newly developed items.

There are only five MC-like numeracy items; all other items require participants to enter numbers or interact with the stimulus, for instance, by highlighting text or clicking on a graphical element.

Literacy and numeracy items were included in both the paper- and computer-based versions of the assessment, reading components was paper-based only, and problem solving in technology-rich environments was developed solely as part of the computer-based instrument.

Furthermore, to investigate a potential position effect on test taking engagement, we included a variable indicating whether literacy and numeracy items were completed in Module 2 ("LIT", and "NUM", PUF Variable CBAMOD2).