DTI - Adult Basic Education
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION, also referred to as Adult Upgrading, is an umbrella term that refers to a wide range of services, credit, and non-credit programs designed to help adult learners achieve their goals. These goals may include:
• increasing education and/or certification levels;
• gaining prerequisites for further training or employment;
• enhancing life skills, independence and self-sufficiency; or
• learning skills in specific areas (such as technological literacy, communication abilities, or portfolio development).
In Saskatchewan, there are four levels of Adult Basic Education:
LEVELS 1 AND 2 LITERACY BENCHMARKS reflect the roles adult learners fill in their everyday lives – as family members, community members, and workers. The Benchmarks, therefore, are those general skills, abilities, and attitudes adults need to function in their world.
LEVEL 3 (ADULT 10) programs are designed for people who want to build on their knowledge and skills. The level 3 programs offered by SIAST, Regional Colleges, DTI, and SIIT consist of five subject areas: Communications, Social Sciences, Life/Work Studies, Mathematics, and Science. Learners who complete Level Three successfully go on to further education, training, or employment opportunities.
LEVEL 4 (ADULT 12) Under Adult 12 Policy, an adult may attain a Grade 12 standing by successfully completing 7 credit classes. Prerequisite requirements are waived for adults. Credits may be attained by taking the course from a Saskatchewan secondary school, by correspondence, or from a Saskatchewan post-secondary institution approved to offer secondary level courses. Adults also have the option of challenging a departmental examination.
Compulsory courses for Adult 12 (secondary completion) are:
• English Language Arts A 30 and English Language Arts B 30;
• One Canadian Studies course (History 30, Native Studies 30, or Social Studies 30)
• One level 20 or level 30 mathematics;
• One level 20 or level 30 science;
• Two electives at level 30 (one may be Prior Learning 30).
THE GENERAL EDUCATION DIPLOMA (GED) TESTS measure the academic skills and knowledge expected of high school graduates. Recognized throughout North America, the GED Testing Program has served as a bridge to education and employment. The GED Tests provide a reliable vehicle through which adults can certify that they possess the major and lasting outcomes of a traditional high school education. The tests are designed to measure the general knowledge, ideas and thinking skills that are normally acquired through four years of high school but which are gained in a different manner. Many acquire knowledge and skills through work experience, reading, social interaction and communication, and informal training.
The GED Tests consist of content area tests in reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies. The tests also measure communication, information-processing, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
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