7 October 2013
Voices Speak to the Data: Feedback from Participants in the PIAAC On-line Field Trial
PIAAC On-line is also known by the title The Education and Skills Online Assessment. It was developed by the Organization…
Research
As Ontario’s only organization focused on helping adult literacy education professionals to incorporate digital technology, we recognize the need for a more comprehensive and coordinated approach—an approach that respects individual program, sector and cultural differences and also provides a system-wide foundation.
Based on extensive review, consultation and our first-hand experience working with programs, we have identified these eight strategies to build a more equitable and inclusive LBS system that can provide learners with lifelong and lifewide digital instruction opportunities. We have taken a comprehensive approach, recognizing how elements within the LBS system interact and create conditions that both suppress and support digital literacy and technology integration.
The report contains details of each strategy along with examples of possible changes. We also frame the strategies with a research informed rationale focused on broader digital inequities.
The strategies are not definitive and are a starting point for discussions that we plan to have this year with stakeholders inside and outside the LBS system.