Literacy and Numeracy Assessment tool
Overview
The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is an online adaptive tool primarily designed to provide robust and reliable information on the reading, writing and numeracy skills of adults. This information will inform the development of learning interventions that match learners’ needs and strengthen their 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 provides:
- Reading, writing and numeracy assessments linked to the learning progressions.
- Hundreds 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).
- Reports for learners, educators, organisations and the TEC.
- A reliable infrastructure built and tested to IT industry standards.
Available in March 2010
The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is on track to be available for use in March 2010. In order to access the tool, organisations must sign the Acceptable Use Agreement which outlines how the assessment tool can be used by organisations and outlines the principles of acceptable use. The assessment tool business role also needs to be added to your ESAA profile. Full details can be found at the Getting Ready page.