Evaluating An Online Numeracy Tutorial Program For Use With Journalism Students

Abstract

Recent enthusiasm about data journalism and growing pressure from governments for universities to benchmark achievement against international literacy and numeracy standards is focusing attention on how general numeracy is taught in tertiary journalism courses. This paper presents the results of a six-week trial of a proprietary online tutorial program completed by a journalism class in 2013. The test found that the program (in learning mode) worked, but that students would have spent more time with it, and achieved greater improvement, if the content was more clearly identified as being relevant to media work.

RAS ID

17682

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2014

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communications and Arts / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Journalism Education Association of Australia

Comments

Davies, K. H. (2014). Evaluating an online numeracy tutorial program for use with journalism students. Australian Journalism Review, 36(1), 69-84. Available here

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