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to bring together online resources for those considering, working with and/or
otherwise engaged in an examination of standards and reporting issues in adult
education.
Inclusion of particular sites in no way connotes tacit or explicit
endorsement of those sites or their underlying approaches, assumptions or
instruments
of assessment. If you feel that a site has been omitted, or would like
to add sites that support these linee of inquiry, please contact Janet
Isserlis http://www.ric.edu/aepdc/priority_aecs.php Rhode Island's writing standards (word doc), posted July 24, 2008. recent additions to
this page: Contextualized, Standards-Based Instruction New England states have each facilitated professional development related to the implementation of the CCRAE standards. NELRC has contributed to the efforts by providing resources that can lay a foundation for or complement state initiatives.
ESOL Initial Assessment Pack from ESOL Scotland Common Core lessons and videos to support instruction
- videotaped lesson including descriptive annotations that identify lesson elements, and teacher and student actions and behaviors
that support Common Core learning. K-12 resource, but will applicability to adult learning and teaching WIDA language development standards - WIDA advances academic language development and academic achievement for linguistically diverse students through high quality standards, assessments, research, and professional development for educators;
Rhode Island is among the states utilizing WIDA development and proficiency standards College and Career Readiness Standards, including this PDF document
by Susan Pimenthel, 2013 and Guide to the Common Core Standards from Kentucky Adult Education Queensland Guidelines
for students with English as a Second Language (ESL) -
guidelines and supporting documents assist teachers and curriculum
leaders to meet the P-12 Curriculum Policy requirements for ESL
learners. The Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework
includes a competency-based curriculum framework and related assessment
and learning material resources that help adult learners transition to
their goals of work, further education and training, or independence.
It provides practitioners with guidance and support to make closer
connections between literacy programming and the skills, knowledge, and
behaviours learners need to reach their chosen goals.
Learning
Progressions - New Zealand site examining articulation of
adult learning in literacy and numeracy Standards in Action innovations and other archived resources including professional development methods and materials that support the
implementation of content standards in adult education programs. The
SIA innovations, developed with guidance from adult educators around
the country, address four priority areas of standards-based reform. The
Common Core State Standards Initiative - joint effort by the
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the
Council of Chief State School Officers in partnership with Achieve, ACT
and the College Board. Governors and state commissioners of education
from across the country committed to joining a state-led process to
develop a common core of state standards in English-language arts and
mathematics for grades K-12. Access for all
- standards for adult learning, including adult literacy core
curriculum, standards and level descriptors from DFES in England;
particular attention is paid to a range of disabilities. Other rooms, other standards Culturally-based curriculum resources - Alaskan site which includes curriculum resources selected "to illustrate ways in which Indigenous and Western knowledge systems can be brought to bear in schools through a balanced, comprehensive and culturally-aligned curriculum framework adaptable to local circumstances. The resources are intended to help teachers and students make the connection between the knowledge, skills and ways of knowing used to maintain a livelihood in the villages, and the knowledge, skills and cultural standards for teaching/learning reflected in the school curriculum... Anyone wishing to contribute to this site is encouraged to contact the Indigenous Curriculum Specialist of the Alaska Native Knowledge Network at (907) 474-5897, or send an email message. It cannot be over emphasized to use local Elders from your community as a resource for education." In recent years, state and federal legislatures, and the
general public,
have increasingly demanded that adult educators provide evidence that
the learners enrolled in their programs are achieving high levels of
educational
gains. In order to accomplish this, the Arizona Adult Education
community-
through this multi-year Standards Project ? will develop components of
a comprehensive, state wide, student performance accountability
system. (more information about the standards http://www.c-pal.net/build/candi/basic/standards.asp
) Canadian Language Benchmarks - Measures of assessing language development in Canadian adult English as an addition language programs. Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment - from a testing site, but interesting sets of levels: "Assessment of the Cambridge examinations is linked to a Common European Framework established by the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) and used for a wide range of European languages."
Content standards - a range of content standards and frameworks available on line from the California Department of Education; CDE's adult education page also provides relevant resources. The Descriptor Bank - from New Zealand's Workbase: short descriptions of the literacy skills that underpin unit standards - including reading, writing, speaking and listening, numeracy and critical thinking. The descriptors come with extra information that helps explain the skills. They also come with ideas on how trainers and assessors can help trainees develop those skills. Together they make up the descriptor bank; the descriptor bank provides a framework for thinking and talking about literacy in industry training. Maine adult and community education - scroll down to program standards and performance indicators Massachusetts Adult Education Curriculum Frameworks including ESOL Frameworks. also see: Where Does It Fit In? The Massachusetts ESOL Curriculum Framework by Heide Spruck Wrigley Ohio Adult Workforce Education and Training Network - http://www.uso.edu/network/workforce/able/ for standards and benchmarks: scroll down on this page: http://www.uso.edu/network/workforce/able/reference.php Standards-based lesson plans being developed by Ohio ABLE teachers. These lesson plans incorporate the instructional cycle of preparing, planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting as outlined in the Student Experience Model (SEM). The lessons cover a variety of topics and use materials and activities that students encounter in their everyday lives. Pennsylvania's adult education information documents, including standards/accountability Rhode Island draft standards, 2000
employability
standards - across levels SABES Assessment Support - assessment-related information specific to Massachusetts adult education programs, as well as resources relevant to adult education practice beyond the state. Swearer Language and Literacy Program Rubrics for Placement and Assessment - developed by Marie Cora and her team of language and literacy coordinators, May, 2000. resources: standards, assessment, accountability An Annotated Bibliography of Content Standards for Adult ESL - Compiled by MaryAnn Cunningham Florez, National Center for ESL Literacy Education , March, 2002 An
Annotated
Bibliography
of Program Standards for Adult ESL - Compiled by MaryAnn
Cunningham
Florez, National Center for ESL Literacy Education , March, 2002 Adventures in Assessment - Learner-centered approaches to assessment and evaluation in adult literacy Assessment - LINCS special collection site - resources, stats, links to joining online discussion. Assessment and Accountability: A Modest Proposal by Heide Wrigley in Field Notes, on Assessment Volume 10, Number 3, Winter 2001 (also see this archive of Field Notes issues on a number of important topics related to adult education.) Assessment
and
Evalution
in adult ESOL programs - digests from the National
Clearinghouse
for ESL Literacy Education (now CAELA) Assessment types - overview of assessment protocols, rationales and activities, by Heide Spruck Wrigley and Jim Powrie, at the Study Place. Issues in Accountability and Assessment for Adult ESL Instruction - NCLE Q and A by Carol Van Duzer National Center for ESL Literacy Education; February, 2002. C2T2 learning outcomes resources - a range of resources related to understanding and determining learning outcomes. CASAS - the
Comprehensive
Adult Student Assessment System has as its mission "to provide
learner-centered
curriculum management, assessment, and evaluation systems to education
and training programs in the public and private sector. These systems
are
designed to meet the diverse and rapidly-changing functional life skill
needs of adults and youth in today's technological and multi-cultural
society
through accurate identification of learner needs, monitoring progress,
and certification of competency attainment. CASAS is committed to
carrying
out its mission through a field-based consortium involved in the
identification
of needs and in the research and development of system components." Equipped for the Future - The Equipped for the Future Standards for Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning have been developed to answer a complex question: "What do adults need to know and be able to do in order to carry out their roles and responsibilities as workers, parents and family members, and citizens and community members?" This site, part of LINCS' special collections, contains information about the ongoing work on EFF and its process of developing standards and measures of assessment of EFF's component pieces. The EFF/TV411 /CASAS and TABE Crosswalk (2002) presents the cooperative efforts of Equipped for the Future (EFF) and Adult Literacy Media Alliance staff to correlate the TV411 video and print materials with the EFF Content Standards and Role Maps. It is designed to help instructors use EFF and TV411 together. Under each standard is a list of the video segments that support multiple components of that standard. For each video segment listed there is a summary of its content and the relevant roles. The publication also contains the EFF Content Standards, the Role Maps, an introduction to the crosswalk and the TV411 curriculum and the EFF Content Framework. David Hayes and the Rhode Island practitioners participating in the NCSALL EFF study documented their 1999/2000 work.; read about their process. Equipped for the Future - Classroom Activities: Project-Based Classroom Activities based on Equipped for the Future Standards - A Publication of the Florida Literacy Coalition. EFF meets the National Reporting System The following letter, from the directors of the National Institute for Literacy and the Division of Adult Education and Literacy, U.S.Department of Education is of interest as we continue to consider standards, outcomes and other reporting measurements for adult education. October 12, 1999Dear Colleagues: Many of you have asked about the relationship between DAEL's National Reporting System (NRS) and NIFL's Equipped for the Future (EFF). Recently the directors and staff of both DAEL and [continued] NIFL spent the better part of a day discussing the two projects in order to refine our mutual sense of the ways in which they can complement one another. By the end of our meeting we all felt we had a richer understanding of the projects and the contributions each can make to a stronger, more effective adult education delivery system. We want to share the highlights of our discussions with you. One important conversation centered on the kinds of standards NRS and EFF currently offer. Here we acknowledged a fundamental distinction. The NRS project focuses on program performance standards that reflect how well adults perform, while EFF has developed content standards - standards that specify what adults need to know and be able to do. Basically, NRS will collect information from programs that reveals how learners are progressing in the core indicator areas defined by the Workforce Investment Act. The EFF project seeks to define the skills and knowledge adults need in order to carry out their roles as parents, citizens, and workers. The projects' goals are clearly related. Some of the core indicators NRS must measure reflect mastery of the skills EFF has identified as essential content knowledge. In addition to profiling employment and training attainments, NRS records progress of adult learners in 12 levels of language and basic skills development. EFF is developing a performance continuum for each of EFF's 16 content standards, and plans to develop assessments of learner progress, all of which ultimately may prove useful to NRS. The projects' paths cross, and we can ensure they do so in sensible, mutually beneficial ways. Our discussion identified three primary areas in which each project's next steps can help support development of the other. The first area involves defining and measuring performance for NRS core indicators and EFF's content standards. We agreed we should work to make NRS performance levels required by the Workforce Investment Act and EFF mastery of essential content knowledge compatible. In this way evidence collected to document student mastery of EFF standards can also be used to respond to NRS reporting requirements where the EFF standards meet the statutory requirements of the Act. We don't want programs to have to make multiple kinds of measurements. The second area involves assessments. Both projects acknowledge the need for improved forms of assessment capable of accurately determining learner performance. Among the items EFF and NRS are considering is how to make both standards more inclusive of persons with disabilities. As EFF and NRS staff proceed with this work, they will share their findings. Program improvement was the third common area identified. Although the primary purpose of the NRS is to collect data to improve program accountability, DAEL staff is exploring how to put the data to additional use to support program improvement. EFF approaches program improvement directly by linking teaching and learning to what adults need to know and do to be effective parents, citizens, and workers. Evaluation of EFF, which will begin within the next six months, also may contribute to program improvement by identifying factors that support effective teaching and learning. We hope this letter sheds some light on how DAEL and NIFL staff are thinking about NRS and EFF. If you have any further questions or thoughts about the projects and how they might support one another, we invite you to let us know. Sincerely, Andrew J. Hartman Executive Director, National Institute for Literacy and Ronald Pugsley, Director Division of Adult Education & Literacy ERICAE Net - test locator and ETS Test Collection - joint project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, the Library and Reference Services Division of the Educational Testing Service, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, the Region III Comprehensive Center at GW University, and Pro-Ed test publishers. FairTest: The
National
Center
for Fair & Open Testing - advocacy organization working to
end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure
that
evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally
sound,
placing " special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender,
and
cultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and
preventing their damage to the quality of education. Based on four
Goals
and Principles, we provide information, technical assistance and
advocacy
on a broad range of testing concerns, focusing on three areas:
K-12,
university admissions, and employment tests, including teacher
testing." Family Literacy Indicators of Program Quality (FLIPQs) - a self-assessment tool based on the Missouri Family Literacy Indicators of Program Quality and Standards of Performance. Focus on Basics - Volume 3, Issue C on Standards Based Education, September 1999 Focus on Basics - Volume 3, Issue B on Accountability, March 1999 includes: Learners First by Shirley Wright, Performance
Accountability:
For What? To Whom? And How? by Juliet Merrifield, The National
Reporting
System by Barbara Garner, Accountability in a Multiple-Faceted
Program
by Jan Goethel & Carol Gabler, Focus on Research: Voices of
Learners:
Learner Identified Impacts Study. assessment at the Center for Applied Linguistics, including the Basic English Skills Test (BEST), a standardized test used by many ESOL programs. < links to Learning Standards - from TeAch-nology.com - although these encompass K-12 standards, as RI adult practitioners recently learned, many aspects of K-12 standards work are adaptable to adult learning contexts. Lives of Change: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Two Learner Centred Literacy Programs - April 1994; posted to the National Adult Literacy Database, July, 2002 The
State of Literacy
in America; Synthetic Estimates of Adult Literacy Proficiency at the
local, state and national levels Stephen Reder NLA Info: Testing and Accountability From: Thomas Sticht <tsticht@aznet.net> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 17:32:15 -0800 Testing and Accountability in Adult Literacy Education: Focus on Workplace Literacy Resources for Program Design, Assessment, Testing, & Evaluation homas G. Sticht November 1999 Recent national and international surveys of adult literacy skills have raised questions about workforce readiness for international competitiveness. This report provides information on the design and evaluation of workplace literacy programs to improve workforce readiness, and an overview of concepts about the nature, uses and abuses of standardized tests in program evaluation and accountability. This is not a "how to do it" guidebook. Rather, it discusses concepts and issues and provides bibliographic resources for those readers who want to learn more about how to design, develop, and evaluate literacy programs in the workplace and other contexts. Workplace literacy or basic skills programs are programs offered at a given workplace and generally are aimed at preparing employees for performing job-linked literacy and numeracy tasks, such as filling out requisition forms in a clerical position or preparing to learn statistical process control. However, much of the discussion is applicable to other types of programs for workforce education and lifelong learning, including family literacy, academic literacy and other aspects of basic skills education (reading, writing, mathematics, English as a Second Language-ESL). Chapters include: Chapter 1 Knowledge Resources for Designing and Delivering Workplace Literacy Programs Chapter 2 Q & A on the Evaluation of Workplace Literacy Programs Chapter 3 Case Study Using the "DO ED" Approach for Evaluating Workplace Literacy Programs Chapter 4 Testing and Accountability in Adult Literacy Programs in the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 Chapter 5 Determining How Many Adults Are Lacking in Workforce Literacy: The National and International Adult Literacy Surveys Appendix Reviews of Eight Tests Used in ABE & ESL Thomas G. Sticht Applied Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences, Inc. 2062 Valley View Blvd. El Cajon, CA 92019-2059 (619) 444-9595 tsticht@aznet.net Matching
Literacy Testing with Social Policy: What are the Alternatives?
Author: Richard L. Venezky, University of Delaware and National Center
on Adult Literacy, 1992, NCAL The reason I joined this program... Creating a database of learner goals for program planning, Report of the Learner Goals Database Project North York, Ontario 1997-1998 by Guy Ewing This list is deliberately small and attempting to tailor
itself
to
this
page. There are hundreds of documents worth reviewing about a number of
topics, as well as those that focus on workplace assessment and other
more
general issues. The site NALD is fully searchable and well worth
repeated
visits, not only for issues of accountability, etc., but also for a
very
broad range of perspectives and information regarding adult literacy in
English and in French. Synthetic estimates for the states - 1992 - go to http://www.casas.org/
and search for 'synthetic' to see synthetic analysis of literacy rates
by state National Assessment of Adult Literacy 2002 Home Page - The National Center for Education Statistics has posted a new Webpage devoted to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy 2002 program which will assess the current status of the English-language literacy skills of adults in the US. The site offers a description of the purposes and goals of the program; posted and forthcoming working papers on adult literacy assessment; and previews of the published reports the program will produce over the next 3 years, including data on national, state, and inter-national comparisons of literacy, results by major population subgroups, and relationships between background variables and literacy attainment. The site also provides links to related literacy sites and a link to the full text of the 1992 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, which includes an overview of all of the program's adult literacy statistics and conclusions about long- and short-term literacy trends. best - includes resources, articles and online material relevant to evaluation, assessment and standards. The National Reporting System for Adult Education The National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS) is an outcome-based reporting system for the state-administered, Federally funded adult education program. Developed with the support of the U.S. Department of Education's Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL), the NRS continues a cooperative process by state adult education directors and DAEL to identify appropriate learner outcomes for adult education. The project is being conducted by the American Institutes for Research's Pelavin Research Center in Washington, DC. The goals of the NRS were to establish a national accountability system for adult education programs by identifying measures for national reporting and their definitions, establishing methods for data collection, developing software standards for reporting to the U.S. Department of Education and developing training materials and activities on NRS requirements and procedures. The NRS established the accountability system for the adult education program required by Title II of the Workforce Investment Act. Using a common set of outcome measures and a uniform data collection system, the states will measure and document learner outcomes resulting from adult education instruction through the NRS. Local programs will collect and aggregate data from students at each instructional site, using an individual student record system. These data will be submitted to the state for statewide aggregation and submission to DAEL. DAEL will combine state data into a national database describing outcomes of adult education. The National Reporting System will improve the public accountability of the adult education program by documenting its ability to meet Federal policy and programmatic goals. The collection of state outcome data will enable states to correlate effective practices and programs with successful outcomes, and will also assist states in assessing progress in meeting their adult education goals. For local providers, the NRS will help instructors and administrators plan instructional activities and services to enhance student outcomes and to correlate effective practices and programs with successful outcomes. NRS (US) Online
-
yet more about how to report nationally, as well as online tasks and
activities
for those learning to navigate the national reporting system. The National
Reporting
System
online - Australia's "nationally recognised mechanism for
reporting
outcomes of adult english language, literacy and numeracy programmes." A framework for adult numeracy standards - The Mathematical Skills and Abilities Adults Need To Be Equipped for the Future By Donna Curry. Mary Jane Schmitt and Sally Waldron Outcome Measurement for a Community Literacy Program - Project Literacy Victoria, 2001. Examination of outcome measurements, and those with vested interests in them. Project Victoria states that "Outcome Measurements will allow us to: focus on our fundamentalsl strengthen existing services; target effective services for expansion; prepare and justify budgets; prepare strategic plans, and focus board members attention on program issues and values. Document contains exhaustive list of resources compiled to gather evidence of outcomes. Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop (2002) - Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA), Center for Education (CFE) Performance-Based Curricula and Outcomes - The Mainstream English Language Training Project (MELT) updates for the 1990s and beyond. Prepared by Allene G. Grognet In Collaboration with ELT Partners Shirley Brod, Inaam Mansoor, Miriam Burt, Autumn Keltner, Barbara Sample, Margaret Silver, Diane Pecoraro, and Myrna Ann Adkins. ©1997 CONTENTS include The Core Curriculum, Student Performance Levels, Assessment and Accountability, and Appendices . [ from NCLE Notes, Vol 8, No, 1. Spring/Summer 1999: "A useful resource in these days of systemic change is Performance-Based Curricula and Outcomes: The MELT Project Updated for the 1990s and Beyond by CAL's Allene Guss Grognet. This work updates the listening and speaking competencies compiled by CAL's Mainstream English Language Training (MELT) project of the early '80s. Its four sections include an introduction, the core curriculum, student performance levels, and a section on assessment and accountability. Order a free copy from the Spring Institute for International Studies (303) 863-0178 or get it from the Web at www.springinstitute.com/elt/. Also available from the Spring Institute is English Language Training Program Self Review: A Tool for Program Improvement." Reading Skills test for Pre-literate Students - developed by Charles LaRue in collaboration with the Minnesota Literacy Council.Multi-Cultural Educational Services Together We Can Do It! The Role of Volunteers in the Assessment Process - Vicki Trottier, Community Literacy of Ontario December 2001 assessment and standards resources from Colorin Colorados - while focused on K-12 learners, includes
useful approaches and resources for adult education contexts. SCANS What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000, The Standards section of the Adult Literacy Wiki - resources gathered for and by adult educators; also see the Wiki's main page for links to assessment and accountability STANDARDS for Teachers
of
Adult
Learners
(DRAFT) Tesol Adult Education Program Standards - ESOL standards drafted over several months with input from ESOL professionals around the world. ESOL
Task
Force
on Adult Teacher Standards Issues Draft - A Firsthand Report
from TESOL 2002 in Salt Lake City Understanding Adult ESL Content Standards
- CAELA brief by Sarah Young and Cristine Smith, defining
different types of standards and describing the instructional benefits
of using adult ESL content standards. It also describes uses of
content standards in the adult ESL field and discusses research about
the implementation of content standards. Valid, Reliable, and Appropriate Assessments for Adult English Language Learners - November, 2003, ERIC Q and Q by Dorry Kenyon, Center for Applied Linguistics Carol Van Duzer, National Center for ESL Literacy Education Web Watch: Assessment Resources - links to standards and assessment resources - K-12 and beyond. 2000 Idea Book - contains a
collection of lesson plans for adult basic educators that were
developed through that action research in collaboration with the UT
Center for Literacy Studies. (read more about it here. professional credential initiatives Massachusetts
ABE teachers licensure home page SABES ABE License support -
delineation of standards, part of an overall License Support resource
compendium . QCA -
National adult literacy and numercay qualifications for adult
educators
in the U.K. page
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