Category: Numeracy Indicators
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New Zealand Diploma of Adult Literacy & Numeracy (NZDipALN): The ALEC Model
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Business model generation, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Design, Diagnostic, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Evaluation, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Mastery, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Prison literacy, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Tutor, Tutor Profile, UncategorizedOnce again… I’ve started work on the Diploma. This is like about the 5th time I’ve had a go at writing this thing and hopefully, this time I’ll finish it. Actually, this time it should be more of a collaboration, but more on that in a future post. What I wanted to establish here is…
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New TEC Publication: Adult Literacy & Numeracy: An Overview of the Evidence
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Book review, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, TECThe Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) have released a new summary of the available evidence on adult literacy and numeracy. It’s kind of a meta-review – a summary of a lot of other literature reviews, but it’s quite brief and worth a look if you’re interested in this kind of thing. They’re not going to print…
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Free online Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development Training via Pathways Awarua NCALNE Lite
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But I don’t have any numeracy in my course… Why do I still have to teach and assess it…?
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, ResourcesThis question seems to come up a bit. The answer isn’t entirely straightforward. However, the received wisdom is that it’s all about literacy AND numeracy these days. The idea that you can just focus on literacy alone is something left over a few years back. Numeracy is possibly more important for people’s lives than literacy.…
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What are some of the indicators of low literacy and numeracy? How can you recognise low literacy and numeracy as a “non expert”?
You don’t have to be a literacy or numeracy “expert” to recognise some of the indicators for low literacy and numeracy in your clients or workforce. If you work with people who have low levels of literacy and numeracy they may be highly intelligent and will often have coping or avoidance strategies to avoid drawing…