This resource, from OhioMeansJobs.com, contains a collection of online practice tests and skill improvement resources for students in Ohio Aspire programs.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff include the variety of practice tests, such as high school equivalency assessments, WorkKeys, ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery); career tests, including Nursing, Plumbing, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and Electrical; and modules to help improve computer, writing, and math skills.

This paper, by Dr. Barbara Walvoord, offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make student assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to both the student and the educational program. It contains effective strategies for meeting the requirements of state and federal education agencies, while showing how to use data to make informed program-level decisions that improve student learning.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff include

• illustrative examples drawn from the author’s experience consulting with more than 350 institutions;
• a basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general education;
• tips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment process;
• suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including assessment for multidisciplinary work;
• clear instructions on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to boards/accreditors;
• ideas for assigning responsibility for general education assessment;
• strategies for gathering information about departmental assessment, while keeping the departmental workload manageable; and
• information on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacks.

This resource, from OhioMeansJobs.com, contains a collection of online practice tests and skill improvement resources for students in Ohio Aspire programs.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff include the variety of practice tests, such as high school equivalency assessments, WorkKeys, ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery); career tests, including Nursing, Plumbing, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and Electrical; and modules to help improve computer, writing, and math skills.

This collection of resources, which originally appeared in KET’s (Kentucky Educational Television) Workplace Essential Skills and GED^® Connection series and accompanying workbooks, is designed to help students locate information in commonly used graphics.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire instructors and program staff include

• Background Essay describing the types of materials students may encounter in the workplace and why being able to effectively navigate and draw conclusions from graphic representations of information is an important workplace skill;
• Connections Video that shares engaging, real-life examples of locating information;
• Discussion Questions for further exploration and application in the classroom;
• Teacher Resources, including Resource Correlations to WorkKeys^® Assessments;
• Student Handouts;
• Teaching Tips to help instructors make the most of the resource collection; and
• Education Standards, including the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRs).

This collection of resources, which originally appeared in KET’s (Kentucky Educational Television) Workplace Essential Skills and GED^® Connection series and accompanying workbooks, is designed to help students understand and apply what they have read.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire instructors and program staff include

• Background Essay describing the types of materials students may encounter in the workplace and why being able to effectively read, understand, and apply the information they encounter is an important workplace skill;
• Connections Video that shares engaging, real-life examples of reading for information;
• Discussion Questions for further exploration and application in the classroom;
• Teacher Resources, including Resource Correlations to WorkKeys^® Assessments;
• Student Handouts; and
• Teaching Tips to help instructors make the most of the resource collection.

This collection of resources, which originally appeared in KET’s (Kentucky Educational Television) Workplace Essential Skills and GED^® Connection series and accompanying workbooks, is designed to help students with math skills.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire instructors and program staff include The Applied Mathematics collection with four leveled modules, each of which is accompanied by Support Materials such as

• Background Essay describing applied math, providing the rationale for its importance as a workplace skill, as well as practical examples of applied math in context;
• Connections Video that shares engaging, real-life examples of applied math at work;
• Discussion Questions for further exploration and application in the classroom;
• Teacher Resources, including Resource Correlations to WorkKeys^® Assessments;
• Student Handouts; and
• Teaching Tips to help instructors make the most of the resource collection.