Category: Assessment Tool

How do I gain access to the TEC Assessment Tool?

Mar 7, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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I’ve written a lot about how to use the TEC’s Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. Just type “assessment tool” in the search box on this blog and you’ll find a bunch of things including how to access your learners’ actual responses on the tool. But how do you gain access to the tool…
Using the TEC Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool for Adults: Video Content

Mar 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Using the TEC Assessment Tool The video below should cycle through the four videos discussing the TEC assessment tool. These are: Administering the initial assessment Administering the progress assessment Discussing the assessment tool results with learners Learners’ messages about good practice and the assessment tool. In our live workshops we usually only get time to…
How do you really start using data from the TEC assessment tool to inform your teaching? Part 1

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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This is going to be a big deal… We are at the start of a more data-driven approach to education. The TEC are several years down this track with their Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The tool generates massive amounts of data about learners’ literacy and numeracy achievement levels. The TEC already uses this data…
From the TEC: Update for foundation-level providers (Assessment Tool and Qualification Requirements)

Nov 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’ve pasted in below in full the update from the TEC website today regarding Assessment Tool usage and Qualification Requirements for foundation-level providers. 10 November 2014 Updates on the Methodology for Assessment Tool Usage; requirements for assessing literacy and numeracy; and transitioning to the 2015 tutor qualification requirements. Methodology for Assessment Tool usage published The…
Update from the TEC Re: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool

Nov 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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[This is pasted in below from the update on the TEC website which is here] The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is an online adaptive tool that provides robust and reliable information on the reading, writing and numeracy skills of adults. The Assessment Tool informs the development of learning interventions that strengthen literacy…
How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re like a lot of people doing the NCALNE (Voc) literacy and numeracy professional development, you realise there’s a bit of what I call “heavy lifting” to do when you get to this stage. This not because literacy and numeracy diagnostic assessment is any harder than any other part (well… it might be), but the main…
Numeracy diagnostic questions: Before there was the Assessment Tool there was this…

Oct 31, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Before the assessment tool we had this handy set of questions (see the Youtube clip below). You can still use it and it works great…! Just click below to watch it as a movie with 5 sec intervals between questions. No audio on this one. If you use it with your learners just read the…
Printable learner attitude questions for reading and maths for adult literacy and numeracy learners

Oct 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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There are some great resources in the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Unfortunately, many of them are simply buried. Here’s my variations on a couple of things that I think are really useful: Learner attitude survey questions for Maths and Reading. Just click the links below to open them as printable PDFs. The images below…
How do you get started mapping literacy and numeracy demands with the Learning Progressions (and for Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc)?

Oct 21, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Ok… so you’ve enrolled in the NCALNE (Voc) training to upskill yourself around literacy and numeracy. Or perhaps someone has twisted your arm and now you’re up to your neck in this stuff. If you’re lucky you’ve been to one of the ALEC workshops and been introduced to the Learning Progressions and had a chance…
How to Understand Box and Whisker Plots and Master the 5-Number Summary used by the Assessment Tool (LNAAT)

Oct 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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How to Understand Box and Whisker Plots and the 5 Number Summary as used in the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT)