Literacy Basics - Community Literacy of Ontario

MTCU Requirements

According to the LBS Program Guidelines (revised October 2000) (http://lbsims.edu.gov.on.ca/PDF/Revised_LBS_Guidelines.pdf), literacy agencies are responsible for the following assessment-related tasks:

• Confirm an individual's eligibility for LBS service, i.e. be without the literacy skills necessary to find and keep a job or to meet everyday needs; be out of school; be able to progress.
• Assist new learners in identifying their short and long-term goals; determining the learning style or model best suited to them; and determining their existing literacy and basic skills.
• Use assessment tools that are appropriate, meaningful and understandable to the learner, and are suitable for their training plan and goals.
• Ensure that agency staff who carry out assessments have the appropriate skills.
• Assess learners' achievements as they progress through and complete their training.
• Use LBS levels to describe learners' literacy skills in all assessments.
• Maintain up-to-date learner files.
• Ensure that assessment results can be understood by other LBS agencies and by key referral agencies, as agreed to in the literacy services plan.

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