If you have responsibility for managing and leading literacy and numeracy development within a polytechnic, PTE, wānanga, ITO or other tertiary education provider, this page contains information and quick links for you.
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The assessment tool is primarily designed to help educators to identify the strengths and weaknesses of learners’ literacy and numeracy skills.This will help educators develop programmes for learners that match their 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.
Case Studies
Programme in action
“The institution has gone from being one in which there were pockets of interest in literacy, language and numeracy (in the schools of bridging education and language studies and the learning centre), to one in which these have become general concerns.”
Programme in action
“Literacy skills and an understanding of what it means to be literate (in the broader sense) are moving from being an unspoken and unrecognised set of assumptions to actually being discussed openly, to being acknowledged as important – and even better, not just at foundation learning levels, but as foundational to all levels of learning. This is a key distinction because it means that we all need to step back and identify what our presuppositions are about our learners, about our teaching, about the experience of learning that goes on in our classrooms and lecture theatres…all of us!”