Join a free webinar on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
What if it took teachers just 2 minutes to find out the level of a student’s math abilities? And to assess the risk of a student ending up with bad grades in math?
Join the Global Partnership for Education’s May numeracy webinar to learn about a 2 minute early grade mathematics test developed by Nadia Nosworthy, a Ph.D. candidate in the Numerical Cognition Laboratory at Western University in Canada.
Nosworthy’s test is a two-minute pencil-and-paper assessment tool which measures children’s ability to compare symbolic (i.e. Arabic numbers) and non-symbolic numerical magnitudes (like an array of dots). Nosworthy’s test is based on research that children’s ability to compare both symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitudes is correlated with their mathematical achievement.
Students seem to enjoy taking the test which is easy to administer and score – an attractive quality for the use in classrooms in low-income countries and in schools with minimal resources.
Nosworhy’s test has been administered in Canada and Cambodia. She will discuss how data from these two countries highlights the potential of this simple tool for the use in cross-national assessments to build and strengthen students’ early foundation of numerical skills.
Access the webinar through Adobe Connect at 10:00 am EDT / 2.00 pm GMT (other time zones):
http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/
(Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button.)
The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.
Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.
All webinars are at 10am EDT (2pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:
- June 5th, 2013 – Linda M. Platas, University of California Berkeley – Early Childhood Development and Numeracy
- July 10th, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes
- August 7th, 2013 – Luis Crouch, Global Partnership for Education – Economic Development Arguments for Numeracy
- September 4th, 2013 – Aarnout Brombacher, Brombacher and Associates – Developing Number Sense, Experiences from Classrooms
- October 2nd, 2013 – Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Southern Methodist University – Review of the EGMA data from a psychometric perspective
- November 6th, 2013 – Kamal Herath, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
- December 4th, 2013 – Meera Tendolkar, Pratham India – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’ model – a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India
If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact me at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org.
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