Tag: LNAAT

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How do I deal with environmental factors? Where affective factors relate to your learners and their emotional state, environmental factors relate to the physical environment for assessing and learning. This environment might be a classroom for some tutors. But it could include other more non-traditional spaces that you use for assessment or teaching purposes, such…

BEFORE: How do I deal with test fatigue?

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How do I deal with test fatigue? Test fatigue is when your learners are over tested. This means they are exhausted when it comes to assessing and testing. And what this means is that you can’t trust your assessment results because they don’t represent your learners’ best efforts. Test fatigue happens for two reasons. One…

BEFORE: How do I deal with learners’ test anxiety?

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How can I address my learners’ test anxiety? Test anxiety is the stress that learners feel when they have to take a test or do something that feels like an assessment. It’s true that some test anxiety can motivate some learners to achieve. However, for most people feeling anxious about a test or assessment causes…

BEFORE: How do I deal with learners’ stress and anxieties about assessment?

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Affective factors Assessing your learners’ is part of good embedded literacy and numeracy practice. But sometimes there are other things going on that affect test results. One example might be your learner’s stress level during and assessment. Another example could be if they were interrupted part way through a test for some reason so that…

BEFORE: What is the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT)?

May 4, 2017

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What is the TEC’s Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT)? The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT) is an online tool designed to provide robust and reliable information on the reading, writing, numeracy and vocabulary skills of New Zealand adults. In other words: it’s there to help you improve the literacy…

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…

Under the hood: ESOL Starting Points

Feb 17, 2017

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in Adult Learning, Embed literacy and numeracy, ESOL, Framework, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Starting Points, TESOL, Uncategorized

The Starting Points framework allows tutors to focus on learning that happens at or before koru/step 1 on the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. This is often in an ESOL context. Where does it come from? The ESOL Starting Points were created by The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). This was in response for a guide…

Plain English Definitions for the Literacy Progressions

Nov 28, 2016

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in Learning Progressions, Uncategorized

I’ve started writing new course content for the new NZCALNE (Voc) – the latest version of our course. I want to revise the definitions that we use to talk about the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The terminology is confusing for most people. And some of the existing definitions are not very helpful…

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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