ALM 14 – ALM

Proceedings ALM-14, Limerick, Ireland, 2007

Theme: The Changing Face of Adults Mathematics Education: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

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Plenary sessions
Bailey, Inez; Director, National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) Overview of the Adult Literacy System in Ireland & Current Issues in its implementation	16
Johnson, Sylvia; Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Professional Development of the Adult Numeracy Teaching Workforce	34
Maasz, Juergen; University ofLinz, Austria The slowly changing face of Adults Mathematics Education in Austria Not Learning from the past means no chance of Planning Improvements for the future	53
O Driscoll, Eoin; CEO, Adora, Chairman of Forfás Ireland Skills for a Knowledge Economy	65
Paper presentations
Bendiksen, Varil The Norwegian national programme for adult numeracy: A presentation of the national standards, teacher’s guide and test material that are being developed *	69
Byrne, Catherine, McElligott, Gerard & Brendan O Hará Mathematics in prison education *	79
Close, Sean A comparison of the frameworks and items of the ALLS numeracy surveys and the PISA mathematical literacy surveys *	87
Coben, Diana Numeracy for nursing: The case for a benchmark	88
Coben, Diana; Morrison, Sheena; Sellers, Daniel Using ICT in Adult Numeracy Teaching	103
Crammer, Kathleen Integrating Numeracy across the curriculum *	111
De Agüero, Mercedes When women cook mole and men build a wall	121
FitzSimons, Gail Integrating ICT into adult mathematics education: an activity theoretical approach	137
Florión, Raber & Wolfgang, Schlbglmann An investigation to ‘mathematical literacy’ of adults using PISA- items	146
Gill, Olivia & O ‘Donoghue, John Justifying the existence of Mathematics learning support: Measuring the effectiveness of a mathematics learning centre	154
Hoogland,Kees Multimedia learning tools for Numeracy	165
Hosková, Sarka & Racková, Pavlina Experience of mathematics blended learning at the University of Defence	177
Hylton, Liz Using Quantitative Reasoning to explore history and mathematics in pop culture	194
Klinger, Christopher Experience, the difference: maths attitudes & beliefs in commencing undergraduate students and pre-tertiary adult learners	197
Lanigan, Michael Small scale Educational Action Research Project: Assisting Adult Learners Develop confidence in Mathematics – A Contemporary Approach to a Traditional Problem *	207
Lundetre, Kjersti Adults’ mathematical self concept-dependent on gender?	213
Ni Fhloinn, Eabhnat Assisting Adult Learners within a maths learning centre	233
Ni Riordain Maire & O’Donoghue John Language Issues for adults learning mathematics through a second language	241
O’Donoghue, John & Van der Kooij, Henk Assessing Quantitative Skills	251
Oestergaard Johansen, Lene Two ‘grand stories’ about good practice in adult numeracy teaching – taking stock of our area	264
Safford-Ramus, Katherine Findings from the Professional Development study within the Adult Numeracy Initiative, a project of the United States Department of Education	271
Robinson, Paul; O ‘Sullivan, Ciaran & Coman, Pat Teaching Semester 1 Mathematics in a flexible delivery mode Higher Certificate in Electronic Engineering	276
Wedege, Tine A gender perspective on Adults’ motivation and resistance to study mathematics	289
Gillies, Roslyn K; Nicholls, John C & Armstrong Lyn M Three bridging course preparing students for the mathematical demands of tertiary study. (This paper was inadvertently omitted from the ALM12 proceedings and is included here at the request of the conference organisers)	299
Workshop sessions
Hansen, Eigil Visual Math	312
Home, Marj Using a spreadsheet for teaching & learning	313
McDonnell, Ann An exploration of peer coaching	314
Randall, Louise & Troutmann, Todd Alternative Mathematical Delivery	315
Topic groups
Kaye, David; Maasz, Juergen & Safford-Ramus, Katherine Learning from the past, planning for the future: Sketching out a research agenda for numeracy education	317
Ni Fhloinn, Eabhnat; Gill, Olivia & Donal Dow ling Maths Learning Centres in 3rd Level: Providing solid foundations or papering over cracks?	323
Poster presentation
Carr, Michael & Ni Fhloinn, Eabhnat Increasing learning by decreasing choice: What do students think?	327
Appendices
Appendix 1 ALM Achievements	330
Appendix 2 International Congresses on Mathematical Education (ICME)	331
Appendix 3 An ALM Bibliography: Published writings by ALM members to May 2007	332
Appendix 4Definitions on the Concept of Numeracy, as presented & discussed by ALM members during conferences in the past ten years	380