Tag: self
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BEFORE: How do I deal with learners’ stress and anxieties about assessment?
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…
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BEFORE: What is the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT)?
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…
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BEFORE: What is collaborative assessment?
What is collaborative assessment and what’s it for? Collaborative assessment is a kind of self-assessment where the group assesses themselves. This contrasts with learner self-assessment as we discussed earlier where each learner assesses their own skills or abilities. To put it another way: Learner self-assessment asks this question: “How good am I?” Collaborative group assessment asks…
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BEFORE: What is learner self-assessment?
What is learner self-assessment and what’s it for? Self-assessment is a form of assessment where students assess themselves. For our purposes, the focus would include self-assessment of literacy and numeracy skills and practices that underpin your programme or teaching context. The purpose of learner self-assessment is usually diagnostic, but you can use self-assessment both before and after…