Target Skills

Target Skills: Initial Assessment provides an ICT-based initial assessment which reports a student's level of skill in literacy or numeracy against National Standards and the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Core Curricula from Entry 1 right up to Level 2. The assessments give two reports (an overall summary, and one with more detail), and provide guidance to students and tutors on the appropriate level to begin using Target Skills learning materials.

Each assessment is adaptive to individual responses, so that students with lower-level skills are likely to have a shorter assessment than those with higher-level skills. If there is web access, results can be stored in the student's profile, and updated if the assessment is repeated at a later date. The web site then tracks individual and group progress.

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	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Initial Assessment	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

	Number of copies licensed to be printed per annum (This licence is annually renewable.)
Title	up to 100	up to 500	up to 1000	up to 2,500	up to 5,000	up to 10,000
Initial Assessment (Paper)	£150	£300	£450	£900	£1,500	£2,100
Initial Assessment (Paper — renewal)	£75	£150	£225	£450	£750	£1,050

Related product: Basic Skills Screener

a first-stage assessment in basic skills

Basic Skills Screener is a first-stage assessment in literacy and numeracy. Its short, easy-to-use assessments provide a good indication of whether a learner is competent at Level 2 of the national standards in literacy and numeracy, or working at or below that level. Basic Skills Screener Upgrades provide ten different assessments in literacy and ten in numeracy, generated from a central bank of questions.

Basic Skills Screener also comes with a tutor management tool which allows learners' scores to be stored in a central database. This means that the software can be used in outreach centres on a laptop.

Basic Skills Screener meets LSC requirements for the initial identification of basic skills needs.

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	Number of learners to be assessed per year (This licence is annually renewable.)
Title	up to 100	up to 1,000	up to 2,500	up to 5,000	up to 7,500	up to 10,000
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades CD	£315	£940	£1,875	£3,125	£3,750	£4,065
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades CD annual renewal	£160	£470	£940	£1,565	£1,875	£2,035
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades Web	£440	£1,065	£2,190	£3,440	£4,065	£4,375
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades Web annual renewal	£220	£535	£1,095	£1,720	£2,035	£2,190
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades Combined	£535	£1,345	£2,750	£4,375	£5,190	£5,595
Basic Skills Screener Upgrades Combined renewal	£270	£675	£1,375	£2,190	£2,595	£2,800
Basic Skills Screener Paper version 1	£250	£750	£1,500	£2,500	£3,000	£3,250
Basic Skills Screener Paper version 1 renewal	£125	£375	£750	£1,250	£1,500	£1,625

Target Skills content CDs

All Target Skills content CDs contain materials written and mapped to the new Core Curricula. The materials are presented in modules. Each module contains at least one of three kinds of learning objects: those that explore skills, those that allow students to practise the skills taught, and those that test students in the skills.

Learners encounter the resources in two ways: from the CD they can access modules by sub-level or by curriculum subsection; from the web they can access their own action pack of modules selected by their tutor, which can include material from all CDs.

Activities include animations, interactive slideshows, spreadsheet tables and charts, writing frames, number tools, word and sentence builders, games and self-tests. Integrated tasks give students the opportunity to combine skills from different curriculum areas.

The discs supports learners and their tutors in a wide range of adult education contexts, such as FE colleges, community and family programmes, training organisations, the workplace, and prisons.

For more information about Target Skills, view or download the flier.

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Target Skills: Entry Level Literacy provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Entry 1, 2 and 3. It includes materials for reading and writing at text, sentence and word level.

Topics include: alphabet, letters and sounds (E1); common words, adjectives (E2); silent letters, verbs, skimming and scanning (E3).

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	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Entry Level Literacy	*£75	*£250	*£375	*£500	*£750	*£1,250	*£1,875	*£2,250	*£2,500
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Target Skills: Entry Level Numeracy provides multimedia learning materials that cover many of the core curriculum elements of Number, Measures, shape and space, and Handling data at Entry 1, 2 and 3.

Topics include: size and shape, money (E1); halves and quarters, dates, metric measures, tables and charts (E2); calculation, money and decimals, collecting data (E3).

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You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software version 4.0 or higher to read it. If you don't have the software, you can download a copy free of charge from the Adobe site.

If you are visually impaired you can use Access Adobe to translate the file into readable format.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Entry Level Numeracy	*£75	*£250	*£375	*£500	*£750	*£1,250	*£1,875	*£2,250	*£2,500
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Target Skills: Level 1 Literacy Resource Bank provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Entry 1. It includes materials for reading, writing, speaking and listening at text, sentence and word level. The materials are also mapped to milestone 8 of the Pre-Entry curriculum framework.

The disc is also suitable for learners with special educational needs in both mainstream and special adult and post-14 provision. The materials can be used independently of other Target Skills resources with learners who need support in working towards Entry 1. It is also a useful resource for ESOL learners.

Topics include: understanding signs, writing messages that use sentences, cvc spelling patterns, handwriting, and listening for detail.

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	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Entry 1 Literacy Resource Bank	*£60	*£200	*£300	*£400	*£600	*£1,000	*£1,500	*£1,800	*£2,000
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Target Skills: Level 1 Numeracy Resource Bank provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Entry 1. It includes materials for number, measure, shape and space, and handling data. The materials are also mapped to milestone 8 of the Pre-Entry curriculum framework.

Topics include: counting and reading and writing numbers, using a calculator, height and capacity, time of the day and days of the week, and sorting.

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You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software version 4.0 or higher to read it. If you don't have the software, you can download a copy free of charge from the Adobe site.

If you are visually impaired you can use Access Adobe to translate the file into readable format.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Entry 1 Numeracy Resource Bank	*£60	*£200	*£300	*£400	*£600	*£1,000	*£1,500	*£1,800	*£2,000
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Target Skills: Level 1 Literacy provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Level 1. It includes materials for reading and writing at text, sentence and word level, and for speaking and listening. Integrated tasks can also provide portfolio evidence for the Communication key skill at Level 1.

Topics include: persuasive descriptions, longer sentences, apostrophes, and word-building.

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	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Level 1 Literacy	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

Target Skills: Level 1 Numeracy provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the core curriculum elements of Number, Measures, shape and space, and Handling data, including new, less familiar topics such as Shape and space and Probability. Integrated tasks can also provide portfolio evidence for the Application of number key skill at Level 1.

Topics include: negative numbers, percentages, ratio and proportion, using timetables, and average and range.

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	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Level 1 Numeracy	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

Target Skills: Level 2 Literacy provides multimedia learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Level 2. It includes materials for reading and writing at text, sentence and word level, and for speaking and listening. Integrated tasks can also provide portfolio evidence for the Communication key skill at Level 2.

Topics include: the structure and language of formal letters, summarising information, pronouns, possessive apostrophes, spelling, technical vocabulary, making a presentation.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Level 2 Literacy	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

Target Skills: Level 2 Numeracy provides learning materials to aid delivery of the new Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Level 2. Integrated tasks can also provide portfolio evidence for the Application of number key skills in Level 2.

Topics include: ratio, formulae, fractions, percentages, circular measure, charts and graphs, and probability.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Level 2 Numeracy	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

a learning environment for English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)

Developed in partnership with the TUC, this multimedia resource is intended to help ESOL learners at Entry 3 and Level 1 develop their employability and improve their career prospects. It will also help tutors and mentors add value to their classroom practice by allowing learners to engage with rich multimedia and interactive learning materials.

The activities are mapped to the requirements of the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum and the national standards and curriculum for adult literacy.

The program includes a recording facility, which allows learners to compare their pronunciation with that of native speakers; a phrase book covering 10 community languages; and an electronic workbook where learners can make notes and save their work as evidence for qualifications.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
English Works	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

What is it?

Target Skills for Work is a series of new titles in the Target Skills suite designed to help learners who work in specific sectors develop their literacy and numeracy skills in the context of the workplace. These titles help learners develop their employability and improve their career prospects.

The Target Skills suite provides an ICT-based initial assessment, a series of ICT learning materials, and a web-based management and tracking system for those delivering the new national curricula in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL.

Target Skills for Work learning material

All Target Skills for Work material is mapped to the core curricula in adult literacy and numeracy at Entry 3, Level 1 and Level 2. The learning material is organised into topics corresponding to areas of work such as health and safety and customer care.

Activity types include drag and drop simulations, multiple choice and multiple select questions, click and stick matching activities, filling in forms and text entry.

Who's it for?

Target Skills for Work is aimed at learners on vocational courses or working in the retail, care, manufacturing and hospitality sectors, and those who support them. The material is mapped to the requirements of the adult literacy and numeracy core curricula, and concentrates on the essential literacy and numeracy skills required for work, including basic number skills, and reading, writing, speaking and listening.

What does it contain?

There are currently eight Target Skills for Work titles available:

Target Skills for Work: Retail
Target Skills for Work: Care
Target Skills for Work: Manufacturing
Target Skills for Work: Hospitality
Target Skills for Work: Construction
Target Skills for Work: Cleaning
Target Skills for Work: Passenger Transport
Target Skills for Work: Logistics

Each disc covers up to five skills contexts, each consisting of a number of separate units which use work-related tasks to teach specific skills.

Retail Skills for customer care Skills for health and safety Skills for money and numbers
Hospitality Skills for customer care Skills for health and safety Skills for money and numbers Skills for food hygiene
Manufacturing Skills for health and safety Skills for quality assurance Skills for weights and measures Skills for money and numbers Skills for working with others
Care Skills for health and safety Skills for weights and measures Skills for time management Skills for care planning Skills for customer care
Construction Skills for health and safety Skills for working with others Skills for measures Skills for working drawings
Cleaning Skills for health and safety Skills for working with others Skills for numbers at work
Passenger Transport Skills for health and safety Skills for customer service Skills for numbers at work
Logistics Skills for health and safety Skills for communicating at work Skills for numbers at work

Each unit consists of a learning activity, two practice activities, a page of tips and a self-test. Individual units concentrate on a specific skill area, such as filling in forms, speaking to customers or taking measurements. The activities encourage a ‘dip-in, dip-out' approach – each task lasts no more than ten minutes – and are designed for self-learning.

How do I use it?

The tasks are all brief, work-related and self-contained, making them ideal for use in the workplace or in informal training contexts. Learners can use the bite-sized chunks of learning to develop new skills or confirm and develop existing skills.

Learners and tutors should work together to identify the most appropriate units for the individual learner. Once the learner has a learning plan of units to tackle, they can work on their own, at their own pace, fitting in their learning in short sessions around their everyday work.

The units are best used as part of a wider learning programme, as the resources provided complement other methods of teaching and learning. Using materials like these allows tutors to focus their time on support rather than on marking and assessment.

The CD can be accessed in two ways:

Standalone – all CD resources can be accessed and an end-of-session learning record is generated
With the management system – resources can be tailored for the individual; all work is tracked and stored on the web site.

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If you are visually impaired you can use Access Adobe to translate the file into readable format.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Care	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Hospitality	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Manufacturing	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Retail	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Construction	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Cleaning	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Logistics	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
Passenger transport	*£125	*£400	*£600	*£800	*£1,200	*£2,000	*£3,000	*£3,600	*£4,000
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Target Skills for Work Workbooks

What are they?

Target Skills for Work workbooks are part of the Target Skills suite of resources. This provides an ICT-based initial assessment, a series of ICT- and paper-based learning materials, and a web-based management and tracking system for those delivering the new national curricula in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL.

Target Skills for Work workbooks are a series of photocopiable, paper-based resources that complement matching ICT learning materials. Both the CDs and the workbooks are designed to help workers in specific sectors develop their literacy and numeracy skills in the context of the workplace. There are six titles available:

Target Skills for Work: Hospitality
Target Skills for Work: Care
Target Skills for Work: Manufacturing
Target Skills for Work: Retail
Target Skills for Work: Construction
Target Skills for Work: Cleaning

Who are they for?

Target Skills for Work workbooks are aimed at workers and others on industry-related courses in a range of industrial sectors, and those who support them. The material is mapped to the requirements of the adult literacy and numeracy core curricula, covering skills from Entry 3 to Level 2.

What do they contain?

The materials concentrate on the essential literacy and numeracy skills required for work, including reading, writing, speaking and listening, and basic number skills. They contain information, worksheets, quizzes and practice tests.

Each workbook covers a range of skills contexts and consists of a number of sections, each with separate activities which use work-related tasks to practise skills.

The learning activities are designed to encourage a ‘dip-in, dip-out' approach – each task lasts no more than ten minutes. They are ideal for self-learning, as the answers are provided in the back of the workbook.

How do I use them?

The tasks are work-related and self-contained, making them ideal for use in the workplace or in informal training contexts. Learners can work on their own, at their own pace, using bite-size chunks of learning to develop new skills or confirm and develop existing skills.

Learners and tutors should work together to identify the most appropriate sections or pages for the individual learner. Once learners have a learning plan, they can work at their own pace, fitting in their learning in short sessions around their everyday work.

The workbooks are best used as part of a wider learning programme, complementing other methods of teaching and learning. In particular, learners can work through the materials either independently or with various levels of support, allowing tutors to focus their time on support rather than on marking and assessment.

Title	Single copies
Care	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-2-5
Hospitality	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-0-9
Manufacturing	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-3-3
Retail	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-1-7
Construction	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-4-1
Cleaning	£49.99	ISBN 0-9549786-5-X
Target Skills for Work Set(s) of 6	£240.00
Logistics	£49.99	ISBN to be confirmed. Scheduled for release summer 2006.
Passenger transport	£49.99	ISBN to be confirmed. Scheduled for release summer 2006.

Target Skills: ESOL Collection is a compendium of Target Skills materials at Entry level, appropriate for ESOL learners and mapped to the ESOL curriculum. It supports learners and their tutors in a wide range of adult education contexts, such as FE colleges, community and family programmes, training organisations, in the workplace and prisons. It is also suitable for learning in post-14 school provision.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
ESOL Collection	£199	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000

Target Skills for V(M)LE

Many Target Skills titles are now available for your VLE. CTAD has adapted many of the existing titles and all new titles are produced VLE-ready. All Target Skills titles ready for VLE are listed below. Together they make a powerful and rich resource with a wide variety of activity types, some paper-based backup and support.

Technically assured

All titles conform to the SCORM 1.2 standards, as well as accessibility and other technical standards, so you can be confident that they will sit comfortably in your VLE and run smoothly for all your users. Our materials are fully tested in all of the mainstream browsers and learning environments to make sure that they look and work at their best.

We've also optimised all of our media for web delivery, so you won't need to go and make a cup of tea while waiting for it to arrive on your screen! And you don't need to worry whether you've got the right plugin, as we only use one: all audio/video/animation playback uses Macromedia Flash to ensure the widest reach for our materials.

Secure and updatable

With our Target Skills suite of resources on your VLE, you can easily personalise it to suit your learners’ particular interests and needs without having to involve the network manager or the technical team. Upgrades are quick and simple too – it’s part of the service we provide. We can even upload updates directly to your VLE so you don’t have to think about it.

Find that curriculum element

When you buy titles from our Target Skills suite of resources for your VLE, we will give you access to our powerful search tool that lets you find all the resources on your VLE that cover the curriculum elements in a learner’s individual learning plan. You can then assign the resources to that learner. You can also look up resources mapped against other curricula and standards.

Impress the inspectors!

With the current drive to maximise the efficient use of technology in learning, CTAD’s Target Skills resources, combined with your VLE, will more than satisfy those inspecting your ICT-based activity. The resources are fully mapped to the national standards and curricula for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL, and they feed your VLE tracking tools with reports that show a clear progress against the standards.

Using these resources with your VLE’s bookmarking facility lets learners go back to the place where they left off, which is also useful as part of monitoring the learner’s progress and verifying teaching and learning quality.

Support

CTAD’s technical support team is standing by to help you in the initial set-up stages and beyond to ensure that the experience is a good one for all involved.

Training

Our training courses are very popular because, as well as learning to use the materials more effectively, you also meet other tutors and share ideas. Get in touch if you’re interested.

Find out more

For further information about Target Skills and our other products that will complement the investment you have made in your VLE, contact CTAD’s sales team on (01223) 470480 or e-mail ctadsales.education@tribalgroup.co.uk.

Target Skills VLE resources

Target Skills: Level 1 Literacy
Target Skills: Level 1 Numeracy
Target Skills: Level 2 Literacy
Target Skills: Level 2 Numeracy
Numbers Up!
Target Skills for Work: Care
Target Skills for Work: Cleaning
Target Skills for Work: Construction
Target Skills for Work: Hospitality
Target Skills for Work: Logistics
Target Skills for Work: Manufacturing
Target Skills for Work: Passenger Transport
Target Skills for Work: Retail

The Spelling Disc

Birmingham Core Skills Development Partnership and Birmingham Adult Education Services (BAES) identified the need for an interactive learning resource for spelling when cross-referencing the content of existing specialist adult basic skills software with the needs of learners. A feasibility study among teachers, students, managers and national literacy specialists confirmed the need for a high-quality resource that addressed spelling skills. The Spelling Disc is the result.

This resource supports learners in a wide range of education contexts, such as FE colleges, community and family programmes, training organisations, the workplace and prisons, covering skills from the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum at Entry 2 through to Level 2. It is also suitable for students in schools and sixth-form colleges working at Key Stage 4 and beyond, and the Communication key skill at Levels 1 and 2.
It contains: a learning styles quiz; a series of modules covering plurals, silent letters, compound words, prefixes, homophones and suffixes; and worksheets, word lists, games and spelling tests. It has been a designed to work with CTAD’s Target Skills suite of resources.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
The Spelling Disc	*£125	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£3,750	£4,500	£5,000
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006

Numbers Up!

This multimedia compendium of number drill activities is mapped to the Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum from Entry 1 to Level 2, providing a wealth of material for users to practise skills in an entertaining way. Mental arithmetic is an essential skill underpinning many other aspects of numeracy, and it is included in the Number section of the Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum. The games can be linked into an individual learning plan as part of a learning programme, used in regular brief practice sessions to develop or reinforce skills, or used when a particular need is identified by a learner or tutor.

Along with interactive activities, there is a Question Sheet section that will generate worksheets on any of the topics. Numbers Up! has been designed to work alongside CTAD’s other numeracy resources, such as the Target Skills series or Numbers You Need.

	Concurrent users
Title	1	up to 5	up to 10	up to 20	up to 50	up to 100	up to 200	up to 300	up to 400
Numbers Up!	*£45	£200	£350	£500	£750	£1,500	£2,500	£3,500	£4,000
* Special offer price as from 1st October 2006