Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment – Rhode Island

Why Northstar? A tool to assess students’ computer skills RIFLI and others – classes - no tool to assess and measure Most straightforward, others available Clear set of standards Pre-assessments – unofficial Post-assessments – official proctored tests

Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment Seven Assessment Modules – questions each Computer Basics World Wide Web Operating Systems Windows 7 Mac OS Basics Social Media MS Word MS Excel Coming Soon: MS PowerPoint

Before you start your assessment:

Results – pre and post tests

Certificates – one or combined

Northstar proctoring sites

Public vs. Sponsoring Agency Websites Public web site – digitalliteracyassessment.org Data inaccessible Agency web site Student Login Retrievable data Agency proctored testing website – RIFLI and PPL Student/Client Login – unique code Proctored Assessment Grant Certificates/Digital Badges – 85%+ Appointments for testing at Providence Public Library

Backend Administrative Console

RIFLI’s Role RI Technology Breakthrough Grant Share with RI Adult Education Provide Northstar Overviews statewide Our own curriculum - Most important modules – more needed 10 PowerPoint presentations – Basics, WWW, Safety, , MS Word Aligned with Northstar standards More visuals – Annotated Screen Captures Lots of practice time At home Starting to flip Digital Literacy Corps

Lessons Learned/Comments/Questions Paper based pre-assessment screeners – Somali Northstar - background and history on website Assessments – more than one way to answer Time Limits Tech words are ESL Lessons Some students - overwhelmed doing an assessment and learning new content during same class session More than one way to answer If you use it – please attribute to RIFLI -