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BEFORE: What is formative assessment?

May 2, 2017

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What is formative assessment and what’s it for? Formative assessment is a type of assessment that examines what a student knows and can do as they progress through a programme or unit of study. Formative assessment can include diagnostic testing. It can also include a range of informal or formal assessments depending on who the…

Sign up to Pathways Awarua now…!

Jul 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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One of the best kept secrets in tertiary training in New Zealand is Pathways Awarua. It’s not really a secret, but up until recently, this has only been available to tutors and trainers. From now, however, this great suite of teaching and learning tools is available to everyone. Well, to Kiwis anyway. Check out the cool…

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 2

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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In my last post, I outlined a process for analysing the content of the Learner Reports generated by the TEC Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The reason for this is that I think that tutors should be using the data that they have access to to help them make better decisions about what…

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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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…

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)

From the TEC: How to use the TEC literacy and numeracy assessment tools – Part 5

Jul 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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TEC expectations of Assessment Tool use Foundation Levels 1-3 Expected minimum use of assessment areas for all learners (by NSN) Initial assessment options Progress assessment options Learners assessed at step 5 numeracy and step 4 reading are not required to complete any further progress assessment. Embedded SAC Reading and numeracy assessments are required. …

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