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A guide to help adult educators and learners
A guide to help adult educators and learners
The new Canadian Adult Education Credential (CAEC) is a breakthrough for Canadian adults who want a secondary equivalency credential for work, personal goals and further learning. Compared to the previous equivalency test, the US-based General Educational Development test (GED®), the CAEC introduces three major changes:
Digital changes
Content changes
Test question complexity changes.
Any one of these changes would require a new instructional approach, professional development and new test-preparation resources. Combined, the three major changes mean that we have to look at the CAEC in a completely different way than the GED®.
The inter-related changes means it will be challenging to simply develop a test-preparation book or online program, similar to previous comprehensive resources that supported the GED®. Instead, extensive professional development is needed so that educators can build their knowledge, and then draw on a variety of strategies related to the digital, content and cognitive complexity changes to support adult test candidates and learners.
We've created this comprehensive guide primarily using the CAEC sample tests so we can clearly describe the test from the test-taker's perspective
What will candidates see, do and experience when taking the test (i.e. digital interface, navigation, icons and symbols, stressors and challenges)?
What sources will they have to read, view, interpret and understand?
What types of knowledge do they need to answer the test questions (e.g., conceptual, factual, techniques and processes, reading comprehension, close reading, online composition, reasoning, etc.)?
How are the test questions designed to demonstrate their knowledge (e.g., recall, match, analyse, consider, apply, evaluate, argue, etc.)?
How will they show their knowledge on the screen (e.g., direct entry, multiple choice, select one item, order, drag and drop, click, etc.)?
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