Numeracy in the newsroom: A case study of mathematical competence and confidence

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 921-936

  Maier, Scott R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICS;

EID: 1842812554     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000411     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (NY: Hill and Wang, 1988), 3.
2. Victor Cohn, News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1989), 3-4.
3. Scott R. Maier, "Numbers in the News: A Mathematics Audit of a Daily Newspaper," Journalism Studies 3 (November 2002): 511.
4. Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Competence in the Newsroom: A Poynter Conference (St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute, 1998), 8.
5. John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (NY: Doubleday, 1996);
6. James J. Kilpatrick, "Numbers and Writers Just Don't Add Up," The Buffalo News, 28 February 1999, sec. G, p. 5;
7. James J. Kilpatrick, "Wordsmiths Usually Big Losers at the Numbers Game," The [Eugene, OR] Register-Guard, 9 September 2001, sec. B, p. 5.
8. Fred Berry, "A Study of Accuracy in Local News Stories of Three Dailies," Journalism Quarterly 44 (autumn 1967): 482-90;
9. Mitchell V. Charnley, "Preliminary Notes on a Study of Newspaper Accuracy," Journalism Quarterly 13 (December 1936): 394-401;
10. Charles Brown, "Majority of Readers Give Papers an A for Accuracy," Editor & Publisher, 13 February 1965, 13, 63;
11. Chris Galdieri, Bad Habits: Six Ways Stations Undercut Their Stories (NY: Project for Excellence in Journalism, 1999).
12. http://www.ku.edu/~acejmc/PROGRAM/PRINCIPLES.SHTML.
13. "Understanding Child Abuse Numbers," Nieman Reports, spring 1993, 20-22;
14. James D. Orcutt and J. Blake Turner, "Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts: Quantified Images of Drug Problems in the Print Media," Social Problems 40 (May 1993): 190-206;
15. David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, "The Awful Alliance of the Media and Public-School Critics," Education Digest 65 (September 1998): 4-10;
16. Christopher Hewitt, "Estimating the Number of Homeless: Media Misrepresentation of an Urban Problem," Journal of Urban Affairs 18 (fall 1996): 431-48;
17. Max Frankel, "Margin of Error: We Are Growing Too Dependent on Virtual Numbers and Facts," The New York Times Magazine, 15 December 1996, 34;
18. Martin Gilens, "Race and Poverty in America: Public Misperceptions and the American News Media," Public Opinion Quarterly 60 (winter 1996): 515-42;
19. Phillip Tichenor, Clarice Olien, Annette Harrison, and George Donohue, "Mass Communication Systems and Communication Accuracy in Science News Reporting," Journalism Quarterly 47 (winter 1970): 673-83.
20. Sarah Cohen, Numbers in the Newsroom (Columbia, MO: Investigative Reporters and Editors, 2001);
21. Kathleen Wickham, Math Tools for Journalists, 2d ed. (Oak Park, IL: Marion Street Press, 2003).
22. Scott R. Maier, "Getting It Right? Not in 59 Percent of Stories," Newspaper Research Journal 23 (winter 2002): 10-24;
23. Scott R. Maier, "How Sources, Reporters View Math Errors in the News," Newspaper Research Journal 24 (fall 2003): 49-63.
24. Nicole Bailey, "No Numbers Please-We're Journalists," Thunderbird (The University of British Columbia Online Journalism Review) 3 (4,2001);
25. http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/thunderbird/2000-01/april/numbers.html
26. "Future Journalists Good at Math," Editor & Publisher, 2 September 1995, 29.
27. Sheila Tobias, Overcoming Math Anxiety: Revised and Expanded (NY: W.W. Norton, 1993), 10.
28. Sheila Tobias and Carol Weissbrod, "Anxiety and Mathematics: An Update," Harvard Educational Review 50 (February 1980): 63-70;
29. Nancy E. Betz, "Prevalence, Distribution, and Correlates of Math Anxiety in College Students," Journal of Counseling Psychology 25 (5, 1978): 329-45.
30. Elizabeth H. Fennema and Julia A. Sherman, "Sex-Related Differences in Mathematics Achievement and Related Factors: A Further Study," Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 9 (May 1978): 189-203;
31. Frank Pajares and M. David Miller, "Role of Self-Efficacy and Self-Concept Beliefs in Mathematical Problem Solving: A Path Analysis," Journal of Educational Psychology 86 (June 1994): 193-203.
32. Elizabeth Fennema and Julia Sherman, "Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales," JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology 6 (31, 1976).
33. M. Beth Casey, Ronald L. Nuttall, and Elizabeth Pezaris, "Mediators of Gender Differences in Mathematics College Entrance Test Scores: A Comparison of Spatial Skills with Internalized Beliefs and Anxieties," Developmental Psychology 33 July 1997): 669-80;
34. Joseph G. Smith and William B. Michael, "Validity of Scores on Alternative Predictors of Success in a College Algebra Class," Psychological Reports 82 (April 1998): 379-87.
35. Eleanor Emmons Maccoby and Carol Nagy Jacklin, The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1974).
36. Sheila Tobias, "Math Anxiety: Why Is a Smart Girl Like You Counting on Your Fingers?" Ms., September 1976, 56-59; 92.
37. Kathleen T. Campbell and Cay Evans, "Gender Issues in the Classroom: A Comparison of Mathematics Anxiety," Education 117 (spring 1997): 332-38;
38. Gail Hackett, "Role of Mathematics Self-Efficacy in the Choice of Math-Related Majors of College Women and Men: A Path Analysis," Journal of Counseling Psychology 32 (1, 1985): 47-56.
39. Nancy Betz and Gail Hackett, "The Relationship of Mathematics Self-Efficacy Expectations to the Selection of Science-Based College Majors," Journal of Vocational Behavior 23 (1983): 329-45;
40. Robert W. Lent, Frederick G. Lopez, and Kathleen Bieschke, "Mathematics Self-Efficacy: Sources and Relation to Science-Based Career Choice," Journal of Counseling Psychology 38 (October 1991): 424-30;
41. Lee B. Becker, Tudor Vlad, Jisu Huh, and George L. Daniels, "Annual Enrollment Report: Growth in Number of Students Studying Journalism and Mass Communication Slows," Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 57 (autumn 2002): 184-203;
42. David Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, The American Journalist in the 1990s: U.S. News People at the End of an Era (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996).
43. G. Hackett and N.E. Betz, "An Exploration of the Mathematics Self-Efficacy/Mathematics Performance Correspondence," Journal of Research in Mathematics 20 (3, 1989): 262.
44. Albert Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control (NY: W. H. Freeman, 1997).
45. Ross G. Siegel, John P. Galassi,and William B.Ware, "A Comparison of Two Models for Predicting Mathematics Performance: Social Learning Versus Math Aptitude-Anxiety," Journal of Counseling Psychology 32 (4, 1985): 531-38;
46. Frank Pajares and M. David Miller, "Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Mathematics Performance: The Need for Specificity of Assessment," Journal of Counseling Psychology 42 (April 1995): 190-98.
47. Robert Lent, Frederick Lopez, and Kathleen Bieschke, "Predicting Mathematics-Related Choice and Success Behaviors: Test of an Expanded Social Cognitive Model," Journal of Vocational Behavior 42 (2, 1993): 223-36.
48. Deborah L. Bandalos, Kristin Yates, and Tracy Thorndike-Christ, "Effects of Math Self-Concept, Perceived Self-Efficacy, and Attributions for Failure and Success on Test Anxiety," Journal of Educational Psychology 87 (December 1995): 611-23.
49. Patricia A. Curtin and Scott R. Maier, "Numbers in the Newsroom: A Qualitative Examination of a Quantitative Challenge," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 78 (winter 2001): 720-38.
50. Elizabeth Fennema, "Sex-Related Differences in Mathematics Achievement," in Women and the Mathematical Mystique, ed. Lynn H. Fox, Linda Brody, and Dianne Tobin (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1980);
51. Julia Sherman, "Predicting Mathematics Performance in High School Girls and Boys," Journal of Educational Psychology 71 (2, 1979);
52. Patricia L. Dwinell and Jeanne L. Higbee, "Affective Variables Related to Mathematics Achievement among High-Risk College Freshmen," Psychological Reports 69 (October 1991): 399-403.
53. Judith L. Meece, Allan Wigfield, and Jacquelynne Eccles, "Predictors of Math Anxiety and Its Influence on Young Adolescents," Course Enrollment Intentions and Performance in Mathematics," Journal of Educational Psychology 82 (March 1990): 60-70;
54. Philip Meyer, Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 3.
55. "America's Best Newspapers," Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1999, 16.