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New online ESOL Assessment: Starting Points Listening

Feb 10, 2016

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in Assessment, Edtech, Listening, NZCER, TEC, TEC assessment tool, tech, Technology, Uncategorized

The NZCER have just released the Starting Points Listening to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool. Here’s the blurb: Starting Points Listening is one of two online, adaptive assessment options designed for learners who are at or below koru/step one of the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. Starting Points Listening assesses a learner’s ability to…

Cashflow 101 Experiment – Part 3: Developing a Contextualised Numeracy Assessment

Sep 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Assess, Assessment, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, Education, embedded, embedding, Fagmify, Financial, Game, gamification, Literacy, Numeracy, Poor Dad, Rich Dad

Feel free to skip this one as well. This is an outline of how I developed the numeracy diagnostic I’m using in my experiment with the Cashflow 101 game. The vocabulary diagnostic is here from the other day. To play the game, you have to maintain a balance sheet. Like the one in the image above.…

Cashflow 101 Experiment – Part 2: Developing a vocabulary assessment

Sep 18, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Assessment, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, Experiment, Financial literacy, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Vocabulary, vocational

Feel free to skip this one… It’s a bit on the technical side. But I wanted to document how I developed a couple of targeted diagnostic assessments. These relate to my Cashflow 101 experiment that I’m running at the moment. This one relates to the vocabulary used in the game. I’ll do a separate post on…

7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy

Aug 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Ronda Rousey

The other day I listed a bunch of reasons why you need to punch literacy and numeracy in the face. Today I want to tell you how to be the Ronda Rousey of adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of this you can do on your own. Mostly, though you need to do this as an…

Using the TEC Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool for Adults: Video Content

Mar 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, Assessment Tool, embedding, Literacy, LN, Numeracy, TEC, Video, Youtube

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…

Maori Literacy: Dr Pita Sharples – The Power of And

Jan 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Assessment 2, Maori Literacy, NCALNE, Pita Sharples

This is a few years old now, but it’s still a great read and easy introduction to literacy and numeracy from a Maori worldview perspective. Dr Sharples covers definitions for literacy as well as his understanding of many of the concepts required by the NCALNE (Voc) training that we deliver. Here’s the attribution if you…

How to deliver a presentation… for your NCALNE (Voc) professional development

Nov 13, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Delivering a short presentation is part of the coursework requirements if you are completing the NCALNE (Voc) training and you’ve been part of one of our groups around the country. From 2015 it will also be something that all our distance and online students will need to do and upload to Pathways Awarua. Read this…

How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…

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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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…

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