An Evaluation of the Numeracy Course “Numbers for Life” at McMaster University Introduction

1 to the pre- and post-test surveys, the project team developed and used the following tools to address the research question: • rubrics to evaluate students’ open survey responses (see Appendix B for evaluation rubrics); • students’ course assessments at the end of the fall 2021 and fall 2022 terms; and • semi-structured interviews with a small sample of students in winter 2022 and winter 2023. [...] Students spent 17.6% more time on the pre-test than the post-test and they did not answer the questions near the end of the survey instrument, or a year after taking the course, as carefully and thoughtfully as those at the start. [...] 2022 Question 3b) Given Pre-test Fall 2021 and Post-test Fall 2021 Question 4) Given Pre-test Fall 2021, Post-test Fall 2021, Pre-test Fall 2022, Post-test Fall 2022 and Delayed Post-test Dec. [...] 2022 Question 5b) Given Pre-test Fall 2021 and Post-test Fall 2021 8 Question 6) Given Pre-test Fall 2021, Post-test Fall 2021, Pre-test Fall 2022, Post-test Fall 2022 and Delayed Post-test Dec. [...] inappropriate logical structures to structures to correctly use logical choice of logical evaluate the truth evaluate the truth structures to structure to value of a statement value of a evaluate the truth evaluate the truth and describe statement and value of a value of a methods of proving describe methods statement and statement and or disproving a of proving or describe methods describe method.