Stuart Boersma|Dominic Klyve
Measuring Habits of Mind: Toward a Prompt-less Instrument for Assessing Quantitative Literacy
Central Washington University|Central Washington University
study offer new promptless instrument measuring students habits mind field quantitative literacythe instrument consists series questions newspaper article students readthe questions explicitly solicit quantitative information students habit mind assessed use quantitative reasoning even asked forstudents answers graded according modified version quantitative literacy assessment rubric qlar published journal vol4 issue 2we applied instrument rubric assess preand postintervention habits mind opportunistic samples two cohorts students general nonstem student body nonstem honors students central washington universitythe intervention ql course designed around collection newspaper articles provide authentic contextthe preand postcourse assessment showed statistically significant improvement either groupwe close discussion practical aspects using rubric based experience using ql class