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Examples of literacy diagnostic assessments from the Learning Progressions Resources You may already have a good idea of what you want to do for your contextualised literacy diagnostic. If you’re unsure, vocabulary is a good option. Or you may wish to tackle other specific literacy skills. If you do, the supporting resources for the Learning…

What are some more examples of other literacy diagnostics that you can adapt or modify? Contextualised vocabulary assessment for farming and agriculture Here’s an example of a set of contextualised vocabulary diagnostic questions plus learning outcome from a farming and agriculture context. This set of questions is part of a larger set the tutors brainstormed…

You can skip this section if you like. These are pro-tips for those who are interested. We don’t expect you to adopt these approaches if you are doing the NZCALNE (Voc). But if you are interested in developing better, contextualised vocabulary assessments there are a couple of other things you can experiment with. Both of…

How do I create my own contextualised vocab diagnostic? If your learners have a basic vocabulary of around 2,000 high-frequency words, it’s likely that they can understand roughly 80% of the words in an academic text. If the text is highly technical, then it gets harder But your learners need to know around 95% of…

Next, you need to develop and use your own contextualised literacy assessment that targets a specific skill that you want to strengthen. You’ll need to use this with your learners and report back on the results. Where are the examples for me to look at? They’re coming. You can skip ahead and come back here…

How do I design contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments for my learners? Next up, you need to design and use some contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments with your learners. If you remember back to the end of your last assessment for this course, we asked you to start thinking about specific learning outcomes for embedding…