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However, adult ELs may need numeracy instruction to navigate daily life or understand health information. Little is known about how ELs use numeracy skills at home and connections of skill use with related electronic numeracy skills. The purpose of this paper is to examine numeracy skill levels and home skill use of adult ELs. Employing Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012/2014 data, the paper begins with identifying adult ELs’ numeracy skill levels. The relationship of skill level with skill use is then analyzed to determine how six discrete groups of ELs at various skill levels employ numeracy skills, and to describe characteristics and backgrounds of each group for adult education instructors and interested stakeholders. The paper concludes with recommended implications for instruction from Curry’s (2017) instructional guide based on the PIAAC Numeracy Framework.  \nAuthor Note: The author offers special thanks to Roofia Galeshi, Steve Reder, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts ofthis paper.  \nAdult English learners (ELs) generally, and appropriately, wish to learn language-related skills. ELs, defined for this paper as immigrant adults with low English language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and/or writing, may seek to learn English to enhance their ability to communicate with, among others, neighbors, coworkers, child caretakers, and doctors in English. Additionally, adult ELs may want numeracy skills – practices in everyday life involving mathematics activities (Hogan et al., 2016)– to successfully navigate daily life, perhaps because they may have studied little or no numeracy initially in their  \nhome country or because many years have gone by and skills are forgotten or outdated. Many are adults over 24 years who do not fit a traditional full-time, immediate post-high-school model of learning in the United States. They may wish to help their children with schoolwork, determine shopping costs, or learn other numeracy skills for a sense of accomplishment (Coben & Alkema, 2017; Ginsburg, 2017). As they age, adult ELs may also seek health information; numeracy skills are related to health-related outcomes and  \nbehaviors as well as health status (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  \nCorrespondence: Margaret Becker Patterson, [margaret@researchallies.org](margaret@researchallies.org)  \n[OECD], 2013; Yamashita, Bardo, & Liu, 2018; Yamashita & Kunkel, 2015).  \nAlso, little is known about how adult ELs use numeracy skills in their home lives and how skill use connects with electronic numeracy skills, specifically using spreadsheets and conducting online financial transactions. This paper’s purpose is to examine numeracy skills and skill use at home of adults ages 25 to 74 years, who are first-generation immigrants and experiencing challenges with English proficiency, to better understand the needs of potential ELs.  \nAs the United States “has increasingly become a quantitative, information and technologically heavy society”(Cummins, Yamashita, & Arbogast, 2018, p. 21) with the widest variability in numeracy skills of 24 OECD countries (Green, Green, & Pensiero, 2015) and nearly 3 in 10 scoring at or below level 1 in numeracy (Grotlüschen, Mallows, Reder, & Sabatini, 2016), investigating where numeracy skills of adult ELs place within that spectrum is important. A 2012/2014 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) dataset permits largescale secondary analyses of numeracy skills and at-home numeracy use.  \nBeyond investigating numeracy needs of potential ELs and filling in knowledge gaps on th","cbCaiue6k93TWbkd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiue6k93TWbkd","pdf",771588,"English","# Abstract\n## Background and Purpose\n## Literature Review\n### Numeracy vs. Mathematics\n### Numeracy Skills of Immigrants and English Learners","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the research paper?\",\"answer\":\"To examine numeracy skill levels and how adult English learners use those skills at home, including links to electronic numeracy skills.\"},{\"question\":\"What data source does the study use?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012/2014 data for secondary analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper define numeracy in relation to mathematics?\",\"answer\":\"It presents numeracy as accessing, using, interpreting, and communicating mathematical information in adult life situations, distinguishing it from more decontextualized abstract mathematics.\"}]","PIAAC Numeracy Skills and Home Use Among Adult English Learners - Research Article | PDF",1792066018,48]