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Here are some generic questions you can use or adapt for place value. You can download a word doc version of this here. Place Value Go to the next question if you are not sure how to answer. A CD player costs $80. How many $10 notes do you need to pay for it?______________ A…

BEFORE: Number sequence diagnostic assessment

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Here are some generic questions you can use or adapt for number sequence. You can download a word doc version of this here. Number Sequence Go to the next question if you are not sure how to answer. Which number is one more than 9? _______________ Which number is one less than 16? _______________ Which…

BEFORE: What are some examples of other numeracy diagnostics that I can adapt or modify?

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Before the Assessment Tool, we used several handy sets of generic numeracy diagnostic questions. You can still use these and they work great…! There are generic diagnostic questions for each of the following progressions: Number Knowledge Place Value Number facts You’ll find the questions over the next few pages and there’s a worksheet for…

Pro tips for creating your own contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessments

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You can skip this if you like. But here are a few suggestions to improve the quality of your contextualised numeracy diagnostics: Write plain-English instructions The same rules here apply as we discussed in our earlier discussion about using plain-English. This time you need to make sure that your instructions are written in plain English.…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my ESOL Workplace Literacy programme

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How do I design numeracy diagnostic assessments for ESOL learners? Here’s the last scenario. This one’s a little different to the others: You’re an ESOL tutor. You teach refugees and migrants as part of a TEC funded workplace literacy programme. Your learners are very low level. Some of them are pre-literate. This means that they are…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my farming programme?

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Scenario 3: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my introduction to farming programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re an agricultural tutor. Your learners are new to farming. They’re adults, but you have a wide range of ages and abilities. You suspect that you’ve got some learners who are used to hiding their…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting course?

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Scenario 2: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting and decorating programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re a trades tutor teaching painting and plastering. Your learners are a group of adults with mixed backgrounds and abilities. You suspect that they don’t understand how to work with area calculations. 1. Consider what…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for a financial literacy class?

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Scenario 1: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment for my financial literacy class? Let’s start with the same scenario as we did earlier when we were talking about a financial literacy class. Your approach doesn’t have to be the same, but how would you think about something like this for your own…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic I can use?

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How do I create my own contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment? Once you’ve used the Assessment Tool to get some “broad brush” diagnostic information about the numeracy strengths and needs of your learners, you’ll need to drill down into some more specific areas where you want to focus your embedded numeracy teaching. You don’t have to…

BEFORE: More examples – Diagnostics for writing

May 9, 2017

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