Numeracy assessment
The test is taken online on
our Moodle site in weeks 1
and 2.
Calculators are permitted and will be required for some questions. The
test lasts 30 minutes and is in a Questionmark Perception format, with a
time limit in operation once the test begins. If you are
required to take this assessment test, your department will contact you
and arrange for you to take this test online in a
computer lab.
Please be aware: this is not a test that has to be passed. It is a diagnostic assessment of
an individual student's numeracy skills and allows the Skills Centre to
decide whether or not to recommend that a student undertakes the In-Sessional
Numeracy Support programme. Any student, in any department, whatever mark
they achieve in the assessment test, is welcome to take the programme. The
six named departments in the Numeracy Training
Overview table
will coordinate the testing of their students. The Skills Centre will
analyse the results, inform the students of their results and will arrange
for those students whose results indicate a need for development of numeracy
to enrol on the programme.
Structure of the assessment
There is no formal assessment at the end of the programme. Students
completing the programme will be asked to take a similar, informal
assessment test. The results of each student's initial and final assessment
tests, and a record of their attendance, will be forwarded to the student
and to their department at the end of the term.