Assessment Follow Up
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00:00After you've done an assessment and you've marked it,
00:03if it is an assessment that actually gives you concrete skills,
00:08you can share those back with the learner
00:10in a very positive, affirming way.
00:14So I would always start with:
00:17This test, or this booklet or this assessment,
00:20told us that these are the skills you're really strong in.
00:24It also told us that these are some skills that we need to work on
00:28for you to get to your goal, to get to post-secondary,
00:32or to be able to write these reports that you're working on,
00:36or read these particular materials at work.
00:42Part of learner-centered learning
00:44is including the learner in the assessment process
00:47and not just by being a person who writes the assessment
00:51or who does the assessment,
00:52but as a decision maker,
00:55in taking that information that we learned from the assessment
00:58and being part of the decision making about the next steps.
01:02The other thing that assessment does
01:04when we talk to a learner
01:06about what we learn from an assessment,
01:08it gives them language to talk about their own learning.
01:11It empowers them to be active in their own learning.
01:14And I think that's a really important piece.
01:17Especially in Community Adult Learning,
01:19we're helping adult learners
01:22become more active in their own learning.
01:25And so, by giving them as much information as we can
01:28to make decisions about their own learning and set their own path
01:33and decide whether they want to learn
01:37in this particular direction or not,
01:40they can only do that if we give them that information.
01:43So including them in that follow up
01:46after the assessment is really important.
01:49I think changing the language that we use is really important
01:53and being conscious of the language we choose
01:56in talking to learners.
01:57I really like the idea
02:00of a continuum of learning
02:02and where you are on that continuum.
02:04You're at one place on this continuum of learning,
02:06and this assessment told us this is where you are.
02:09And I'm on a different place on a different continuum.
02:12And we all have different continuums.
02:15In terms of truck driving,
02:16I'm quite low on a continuum of learning,
02:20but in terms of reading,
02:21I do have a higher level of reading skill.
02:24I'm at a different place on a reading continuum.
02:27We all have our own learning continuums
02:30in different areas of our lives,
02:31and we don't need to think about it as pass or fail.
02:34It's just about where we're moving along in that continuum.