Review

• Formative Assessment – tracking and recording achievement

- DfES - Planning Learning, Recording Progress and Reporting Achievement

- Good Practice Guidelines for Assessments and ILPs (from Pathfinder activities in Liverpool, Blackburn and the Wirral)

• Summative Assessment
• Evaluating Improvements in Key Performance Criteria

  - Organisational Needs Analysis Toolkit (developed by The Basic Skills Agency / London Development Agency)

  - Organisational Needs Analysis Database Proforma

  - Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Evaluation

  - Case studies evaluating training using Kirkpatrick’s model (mostly non-LLN)

  - Balanced Scorecard for Skills

• Evaluating Softer Outcomes
• Accreditation, including National Tests

  - Get On at Work website

  - National Test awarding bodies

  - Online practice tests for the National Tests

  - Create customised practice tests

  - How to become a National Test test centre

  - National Test FAQs

  - The National Test Toolkit Update (March 2005) can be ordered from Prolog: Tel. 0845 60 222 60, Email: dfes@prolog.uk.com quoting the following references:

  File 1 National Test Toolkit Update - NTT/NTT04

  File 2 Teaching and Learning - NTT/TL04

  File 3 Practice Tests - NTT/PT04

  Practice Tests CD-ROM only - NTT/PT04/CD

  The complete toolkit (all three files) – NTT/NQ04