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

Sep 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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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

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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…
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…
Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc) – Knowing the learner and diagnostic assessment: Talking through the assessment task with Graeme

Aug 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s some info on Assessment Task 4. Again, there’s nothing here that’s not in the study materials or on Pathways Awarua. Hope it’s useful.
Using the online vocab profiler – Part 5 (Sample you can download)

Aug 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s the last part… You can review how I put together my new vocabulary diagnostic via these links or just read through below and download the sample if you want to modify it. My outline is here. The initial results from the vocabulary profiling software are here. The way that I generated some useable word lists is…
Using the online vocab profiler – Part 4

Aug 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Vocabulary, Writing

Generating assessment items for my vocabulary diagnostic I started on this earlier My outline is here. And the initial results from the profiling software are here. And the way that I generated some useable word lists is here. What follows below is an outline of my final selection of words and the sample sentences that I used. Everyday…