September 4th - the Functional Skills
newsletter
With less than a month until "FS
DAY", a quick reminder in this week's newsletter about some of the
services that Guroo provides, with establishment licences starting from as
little as £325 and user licences from £1.50 per user.
Plus news from AELP including
practitioner workshops and details of September's Special Interest Group
meeting for Functional Skills.
Plus the launch of the Paper Based
Functional Skills Level Checker - available ABSOLUTELY FREE to licenced Guroo
customers and a reminder to complete the annual Functional Skills Survey -
adding to the nearly 200 responses we've already had!
Paper Based Functional Skills Level
Checker
A reminder that licenced Guroo
customers can now access this new paper based level checker. It
is NOT available on the web site, please email us at info@guroo.co.uk and we'll send you a pdf version for immediate use.
If you aren't yet a customer of Guroo,
but keen to use the Level Checker, there are special licences available
starting at £325 - click here to get to the latest price
lists and products.
Guroo also has limited stocks of full
colour printed test papers for licenced customers. A 100 pack with 100 x
English, 100 x Maths plus laminated guidance/marking notes for both tests costs
just £75 - probably cheaper than printing everything yourself. A 250 pack
is even better value at £150.
Guroo Functional Skills Resources
Guroo is a company that is dedicated
solely to Functional Skills. It is very easy to become a customer and get
your SITE CODE and this costs as little as £325. Once you are a customer,
you get access to the pdf version of the Functional Skills Level Checker and
then you can add any number of user licences to use the on-line initial
assessment, diagnostic and teaching & learning resources. We have
on-line and paper based products covering the full learner journey.
A Paper Based Functional
Skills Level Checker for Maths and English developed by Guroo
and ideal for use as part of a pre-course assessment or interview process –
takes about 10 minutes to do, and produces a good guide to the level that the
learner is currently operating at.
An on-line Initial Assessment producing
a detailed Functional Skills Diagnostic. Takes around 50 minutes per subject (we do all three
subjects) and is completed on-line and automatically marked. The
diagnostic details performance against the Functional Skills criteria in all
subjects. The test is adaptive with learners starting at E3 then adapting
according to performance and has randomisation and variability built in so the
assessment can be done several times without learners becoming good at the test
rather than the skills.
A massive bank of teaching and learning
resources. Mainly on-line interactive and
based around 130 “challenges” each with several learning tasks. The tasks
can also be downloaded as pdf’s for printing and use off line and again cover
all levels and all three subjects.
Customers pay an establishment fee
which is a on-off fee. You then buy licences based on number of users or
tests according to what you need. It is not an annual subscription, use
stays as long as your learner or tutor is with you. Establishment fees
start as low as £325 and indeed, customers who only wish to use the Paper
Based Functional Skills Level Checker pay just £325 for the licence providing
they choose to print the test papers out themselves.
Guroo customers get access to the Level
Checker free of charge if they wish to print out the tests themselves or can
buy sets of tests in bulk for ease of use and indeed to save money, as our sets
often cost less than printing yourself! We’re also producing an
automatically marked on-line version too, again access is limited to licenced
customers. Prices for the on-line test are 50p per set (Maths and
English), the paper based version can be supplied in a 100 pack for £75 which
contains 100 x English, 100 x Maths and marking/guidance notes for each
subject. A 250 pack is just £150, almost certainly than printing in
house.
Functional Skills Annual Survey Report
for 2012
It will take you around 10-15 minutes.
The results we get are used widely in the sector plus this year, we are
being supported by OCR, Pearson and EMSkills who have all kindly sponsored key
survey questions.
Even better, we've using the sponsorship funds to support
some of our favourite charities, simply make your choice at the end of
the survey!
The summary report is scheduled for
publication in September, please email jwells@guroo.co.uk if you have any questions at all.
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Delivering Functional Skills -
managing the learner journey, a practitioner's guidance workshop
Two new events organised by AELP on
Monday 24th Sept in Leeds and on Thursday 4th October in Birmingham.
These half-day workshops are led by
experienced facilitators drawing on best practice methods of delivering
Functional Skills in Apprenticeship programmes. They are aimed at
practitioners from all sectors.
AELP members should also be aware
that the Functional Skills Special Interest Group
meeting will take place on Tuesday 25th Sept in London. A packed agenda
covering initial assessment, diagnostic, inspections and final assessment
will be chaired by Roger Francis of Mindleaders. To attend contact events@aelp.org.uk
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