QUARCS

However, rigorous educational research into strategies for mitigating innumeracy in the classroom is sparse, and there are many unanswered questions in the field numeracy. Our goal is to use our developed and validated Quantitative Reasoning for College Science assessment instrument (QuaRCS, Follette et al. 2015, Follette et al. 2017) to explore predictors of innumeracy in the undergraduate general education science student population, as well as instructional methods capable of addressing it. General education college science courses are an important venue for improving numerical and science literacy, as they reach a large proportion of non-STEM major undergraduates. Approximately 700,000 students enroll annually in introductory astronomy and geosciences courses alone... We believe that improving numeracy instruction in general education science courses will both foster the quantitative skills necessary for all students to become discerning voters and savvy consumers and be of..