1. Learning for Living Bruce Lynch Project Manager Foundation Learning
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2. Formative assessment
Not a current explicit focus but rising in importance
Many components of our Learning for Living work feature formative assessment
Research increasingly points to the importance of formative assessment as a teaching and learning tool

3. Learning for Living
Is about making a range of shifts in understanding, practice and outcomes at all levels of tertiary education to ensure that learning delivers the competent individuals New Zealand needs
Aims to build adults’ competency in using the tools of literacy, numeracy and language

4. Our Work Programme Phase One Build an evidence base about what works
Develop tools and resources
Cultivate expertise in the sector
Build the knowledge needed to develop an effective funding mechanism focused on learner outcomes
Phase Two
Introduce a new funding mechanism to ensure learners can access quality learning opportunities in appropriate contexts

5. Programme
Research
Exploratory projects
Tertiary framework

6. National Professional Development Initiative
Research evidence has informed the focus of professional development on reading and numeracy
30 providers arranged into 6 area clusters
One or two developers working with each cluster
Two specialist groups in reading and numeracy
Research team to evaluate the impact

7. Economic transformation
Government’s 5 year plan aims to
Significantly increase the literacy, numeracy and language skills of the workforce at the low-skilled end
Improve settlement outcomes for new migrants and refugees
Raise foundation skills of parents with poor education attainment who want to support their children’s learning

8. Upskilling the Workforce
Helping employers to raise employees’ skills to lift productivity and profitability
Encourage greater participation by employees in training by developing high quality relevant programmes
Effective, relevant and accessible literacy, numeracy and language provision that meets the needs of the workplace and the learner

9. Formative assessment in New Zealand
Research into effective practice informs policy development
Quality assurance arrangements with an emphasis on self-assessment and individual learning plans
New adult educator qualifications include formative assessment
A national assessment tool which can be used for formative assessment