When administering the Assessment Tool, what information do I tell the students to make it a meaningful assessment for them and understand how it relates to their learning?
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 the learning programme. The Assessment Tool is designed for people whose literacy and numeracy equates with the Learning Progressions. Learners who are not at Step 1 of the progressions should not be using the Assessment Tool. For Learners whose literacy and numeracy does equate with the progressions, an online adaptive assessment is likely to be the most appropriate assessment for a Learner who is wary of being assessed. An adaptive assessment starts at about Step 2 of the progressions and adapts straight away to the Learners’ results – that is, if a Learner struggles to answer the first few questions correctly, the computer will choose easier questions for them. The Educator can support the Learner’s understanding by: • how they introduce them to the Assessment Tool, including to the computer knowledge required • use the tool as it
