Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool

Type:

Software tool

The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is an online adaptive tool designed to provide robust and reliable information on the reading, writing and numeracy skills of adults.

The assessment tool will inform the development of learning interventions that strengthen literacy and numeracy skills. The assessment tool will also allow learners to track their progress over time and enable educators and organisations to report on the progress made by groups or cohorts of learners.

In summary the tool will provide:

• reading, writing and numeracy assessments linked to the learning progressions 
• thousands of assessment questions, using New Zealand adult contexts
• adaptive (where the computer alters the difficulty of questions in response to the learner’s answer) and non-adaptive assessments (online and printed)
• reporting for learners, educators, organisations and the TEC
• a reliable infrastructure built and tested to IT industry standards.

The assessment tool is being developed for the TEC by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) who lead a consortium involving NZCER, the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) and Fronde.

The development process draws on the collective curriculum and assessment expertise of NZCER, ACER and the TEC, and the ICT expertise of Fronde. The assessment tool will be available for use from March 2010.

Further information about the assessment tool

To find out more about the assessment tool, and what your organisation needs to do to prepare to use the tool, visit the assessment for learning tab at www.literacyandnumeracyforadults.com.