Test Your Literacy
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In an earlier post, I talked about prose literacy and how it was being defined in order to derive an alarming statistic about the state of literacy in Canada.
I thought that some of you might like to take the test yourself. You may do so at the following website:
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/LiteracySelfAssessment/
My main disappointment regarding this test was that it didn't tell me what questions I got wrong. I was very confident in almost all of my answers, but I only got 100% in one small sub category "use of pattern and relationships -> calculate -> formulae".
It would be nice if the way the tests were scored was transparent and available online. Perhaps the information is available on request.
If anybody's interested, I scored a level 4 in prose literacy. In document literacy, I scored in level 3, and in numeracy, I scored in level 5.
I was supplied with a bewildering array of results from numerous sub-categories, which must have been a labour intensive undertaking to design and program. I have my doubts about how much these tiny slices of meaning can possibly tell me about myself and my abilities. But over all I'm sure the test gives at least a rough idea of a person's literacy level.
Take the test yourself and let me know what you think.
In an earlier post, I talked about prose literacy and how it was being defined in order to derive an alarming statistic about the state of literacy in Canada.
I thought that some of you might like to take the test yourself. You may do so at the following website:
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/LiteracySelfAssessment/
My main disappointment regarding this test was that it didn't tell me what questions I got wrong. I was very confident in almost all of my answers, but I only got 100% in one small sub category "use of pattern and relationships -> calculate -> formulae".
It would be nice if the way the tests were scored was transparent and available online. Perhaps the information is available on request.
If anybody's interested, I scored a level 4 in prose literacy. In document literacy, I scored in level 3, and in numeracy, I scored in level 5.
I was supplied with a bewildering array of results from numerous sub-categories, which must have been a labour intensive undertaking to design and program. I have my doubts about how much these tiny slices of meaning can possibly tell me about myself and my abilities. But over all I'm sure the test gives at least a rough idea of a person's literacy level.
Take the test yourself and let me know what you think.
