Exam 9: Literacies and Numeracy

Students with learning difficulties need a balanced approach in literacy and numeracy instruction that involves:

Assessment developed by the teacher can also be used to determine student's strengthens and weaknesses in literacy and numeracy.

When teachers use inclusive teaching, Universal Design for Learning and differentiated instruction, they create learning environments that have important features and use a range of pedagogies. List and explain some of these effective pedagogies and discuss how they can be used to increase literacy and numeracy.

Numeracy refers to those aspects of mathematics that are related to functioning in society.

Concepts such as measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) fall under the content area of measurement in mathematics.

Teachers can rely on a single assessment tool to determine what they need to know about the achievement of their students.

This program uses interview-based assessment: