Aligning the LNAAT with NCEA literacy and numeracy credits
Aligning the LNAAT with NCEA literacy and numeracy credits
This page offers an overview of how to align the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT) with the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), and a useful document you can download.
This page offers an overview of how to align the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (LNAAT) with the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), and a useful document you can download.
The literacy and numeracy requirements for NCEA Level 1 are a minimum of 10 literacy credits and 10 numeracy credits, obtained through either specified achievement standards or the package of three literacy and three numeracy unit standards.
Note that the NCEA Level 1 literacy and numeracy requirements must be met to achieve the Level 2 NCEA qualification from 2013 and the Level 3 qualification from 2014.
The document below illustrates how three different measures and descriptions of adult literacy and numeracy may relate to each other.
Note that the measures were developed for different purposes and describe literacy and numeracy competencies in different ways. However, LNAAT reports that are recorded at step 5 for numeracy and step 4 for reading are acceptable as a piece of evidence towards the learner portfolio for the NCEA literacy and numeracy unit standards that are discussed above.