Community Literacy of Ontario - Our Voice newsletter - April 2007 issue

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CIPMS Resources and Training

The Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) first introduced the concept of a Continuous Improvement Performance Management System (CIPMS) to Literacy and Basic Skills adult literacy delivery agencies in 2001 when it implemented a computer-based Information Management System (IMS).

Since 2001, MTCU has gradually introduced some of the components of CIPMS to the Ontario literacy field. Those components have included the IMS and the Learner Satisfaction Survey (LSS). These two tools have enabled agencies to collect data that can be used for program evaluation. As well, the Program Monitoring Report has helped agencies report on the steps they have been taking towards program evaluation and documentation. MTCU has provided updates about CIPMS through a series of letters distributed to the field via AlphaCom postings on INFO-LBS. MTCU will continue to provide information as CIPMS rolls out.

In 2007, MTCU funded Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO), the Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC), Goal: Ontario Literacy for Deaf People (GOLD), the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC) and La Coalition francophone pour l’alphabétisation et la formation de base to provide CIPMS training to their respective sector or stream.

As part of CLO’s commitment to offering CIPMS information and training to the community-based sector, we will be providing:

  • CIPMS training at CLO’s conference (October 2007)
  • Two online workshops on Centra (November 2007)
  • A self-directed training module on our Literacy Basics website (www.nald.ca/literacybasics) (available April 2008)
  • A resource manual on the CIPMS (available April 2008)
  • Two CIPMS bulletins
  • Two CIPMS E-communiqués
  • A CIPMS discussion on AlphaCom (December 2007 to March 2008)