ANDE

The Adult Numeracy in the Digital Era (ANDE) project set out to evaluate a technology-enhanced numeracy course across multiple sites in Pennsylvania. ANDE is a technology-enhanced, standards-aligned adult numeracy course and accompanying professional development package of supports for building classroom community, productive mindsets, and effective learning habits.

WestEd has released a news release highlighting the latest findings from the ANDE study and the launch of ANDE OER.

Adult Numeracy in the Digital Era (ANDE) is a technology-enhanced, standards-aligned numeracy course designed to meet the needs of adult learners and their instructors. The project was structured in four phases: development, feasibility testing, impact study, and dissemination, and aimed to produce a flexible, research-informed curriculum grounded in the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS Levels C and D). The intervention design combined instructional modules with professional development supports that emphasized classroom community, mathematics…

When the Adult Numeracy in the Digital Era (ANDE) team set out to design and pilot a new adult numeracy course in Pennsylvania, they began with an ambitious idea: could successful mathematics expertise and technology originally developed for K–12 and postsecondary settings be meaningfully adapted for adult basic education (ABE)?

Numeracy skills, or the ability to understand and calculate using simple numbers, along with digital literacy and problem-solving abilities, enable a person to engage with and make sense of the world around them. These essential skills are more critical than ever for economic mobility and healthy civic participation in today’s society. Yet, the latest global survey of adult skills presents a troubling picture for the United States. Among adults in America, these skills have declined in recent years. According to the most recent PIAAC report, a third of U.S.…