Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool

The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is an online adaptive tool primarily designed to provide robust and reliable information on the reading...

The Youth option is aimed at learners aged between 15 and 25 years of age. It was developed to improve engagement with younger learners who may not have bee...

It can be used for either one; but in actual fact it’s not the assessment that’s formative or summative, it’s how and when the information from the assessme...

Data from the Assessment Tool will be used by educators to monitor progress of learners in programmes that receive funding for literacy and numeracy. This l...

It is the role of the educator to explain to the learner that this is not a pass or fail test. It is an assessment that will help educators to strengthen th...

A number of items designed to assess numeracy knowledge are context free in the sense that they do not sit within an authentic situation. These include, for...

The Assessment Tool has been designed to find out where a learner sits on the progressions in reading, writing, numeracy and vocabulary. Information about s...

Each item used in the Assessment Tool was trialled before being included in the Tool for general use. Part of the analysis of trial data involved checking f...

Learners who have presented at or above the thresholds for reading and numeracy do not need to sit further assessments in those areas. The thresholds are St...

Providers should keep their paper records for seven years, as per general information storage guidelines. Judgement can be applied to shorten the storag...