Defined Terms and Documents      'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Social Inclusion Early Intervention Programme 

Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests means a -

*        20 minute numeracy on-line test;

*        20 minute literacy on-line test; and 

*        20 minute English writing on-line test.

Literacy tests assess spelling, grammar, punctuation, handwriting and flow of ideas.

VETASSESS is Australia’s leading vocational education and training (VET) assessment provider.  It help individuals, training providers and industry groups around the world define and achieve their learning and assessment goals. 

Example of VETASSESS Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing tests

Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF)  -

a)         is the national set of compliance Standards and Essential Conditions that the Vocational Educational Training provider must meet to become a Registered Training Provider (RTO); and

b)         Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program (LLNP) -

             *        seeks to improve participants’ language, literacy and/or numeracy, with the expectation that such improvements will enable them to participate more effectively in training or in the labour force and lead to greater gains for them and society in the longer term; and

             *        provides up to 800 hours of free accredited Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) training for eligible job seekers whose LLN skills are below the level considered necessary to secure sustainable employment or pursue further education and training.

Education Standards Authority - NSW Govt - provide on-line Literacy and Numeracy tests

Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK provided PowerPoint details of its Numeracy & Literacy Tests criteria for nursing courses.

It is 'Confidential' that Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants do not know that a prerequisite to be an Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students is that they must not be in the top 10% in the Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests.

Work Experience Recipient and Employee Work Experience Providers each note that any of the twenty or so Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants across each of the Six Regional Townships that a Year 9 Applicant Interviewer met with for at least 25 mins during the particular Year 9 Applicant Interview and -

c)         was not chosen to be one of 140 x  Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students because the Year 9 Student Applicant scored in the top 10% in their Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests and were deemed by the 6 x  Year 9 Applicant Interviewers to be receiving reasonable mentoring and guidance from their family, with at least one parent holding a tertiary qualification or trade, and in regular employment; and

d)         subsequently passed their School Certificate and continued on to Year 11 intent upon gaining their Higher School Certificate and has displayed some interest in the particular industry that the Work Experience Provider is employed with one of the Ten Corporate Sponsors,

would be invited to receive 5 working days Work Experience 'At the Leading Edge' of that Corporate Sponsor's primary production activity(s), and be billeted at the Work Experience Provider's home for up to 8 nights from a Saturday to and including the following Saturday during the school holidays in the Third RTV Year when the Work Experience Recipient is a Year 11 school student.