1. How does it work? (paper-based)

2. Careerforce creates a new paper-based assessment in The Tool every three months. This is downloaded from The Tool as a PDF document. The PDF is emailed to a designated literacy coordinator in each company. The literacy coordinator forwards this email to the trainers / assessors within the company. How does it work? (paper-based)

3. How does it work? (paper-based) The assessment is ‘non-adaptive’ – it doesn’t adapt the questions to the learner’s responses like the online version It has a range of questions from Step 2 – Step 5 on The Progressions Careerforce only uses the ‘snapshot’ assessment (around 15 – 17 questions). A full diagnostic assessment has about 30 questions. It takes about 20 – 30 minutes from start to finish. You can go back over questions and, unfortunately you can skip questions. Unanswered questions or incompletely answered questions don’t score.

4. How it works – making a book When printing out the PDF: Layout – Print Type - 2-sided Finish – Staple - 2 position left so that it opens up like a book so…. the learner sees the text on the left side and the related questions on the right side.

5. How it works – making a book

6. When printing out the PDF: Layout – Print Type - 2-sided Finish – Staple - 2 position left How it works – making a book

7. How it works – some typical questions underlining text Please send in the text pages as well as the answer pages for marking.

8. What happens with the results? The information must be kept confidential and used for educational purposes only. They are used by workplace trainers to match their training support with the trainee’s learning needs. They are used by Careerforce - to improve their training and assessment resources - to improve their support for trainees, trainers and assessors. They are used by the Tertiary Education Commission - for general statistics on adult education in NZ - to inform tertiary education policy.

9. Online: The learner can retrieve the report instantly after completing the assessment. Paper-based: The report is available after the learner’s responses have been loaded into The Tool (2 – 3 weeks later).

10. Response to Assessment Results Step 5 & 6 self-directed learning organise study group / study buddy Step 3 & 4 organise study group / study buddy use embedded literacy resources schedule more 1-1 time post-assess (Step 3) at end of programme Step 1 & 2 integrate training with a literacy programme coordinate training with literacy tutor post-assess at end of programme Use Careerforce embedded literacy resources Create embedded literacy resources (Progressions red book) Form a group on Pathways Awarua Investigate a literacy programme with a TEC approved literacy provider English Language Partners Workplace Programmes (for trainees with English as a second language) Form a group on Pathways Awarua Create embedded literacy resources (Progressions red book) Use Careerforce embedded literacy resources