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What is TOWES? - TOWES
(Test of Workplace Essential Skills) is an effective assessment that uses
authentic workplace documents to accurately measure three Essential Skills
that are needed for safe and productive employment: Reading Text, Document
Use, and Numeracy... more
What is TOWES used for? -
The Sector Series is the latest addition to the TOWES family. These assessments
are customized to individual sectors and contain problem sets specific
to each industry... more
Benefits of TOWES -
By using TOWES, employers can identify and develop the Essential Skills levels
of workers for a wide range of occupations. Employees, students and job
seekers can identify and develop their Essential Skills, enabling them
to make more informed career and education decisions, as well as and access
higher paying jobs that require higher level skills... more
Testimonials -
"Diavik Diamond Mines has greatly benefited from integrating TOWES essential
skills training into our operations. We and our workers realize tangible
benefits every day from the essential skills training we provide our employees"... more
TOWES History - During
the 1990s, workplace trainers expressed the need for a test of workplace
essential skills that would yield results similar to the International
Adult Literacy Study (IALS) and complement the job description methodology
developed for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada's (HRSDC) Essential
Skills Research Project... more
Measure Up! -
A free web-based tool that tests your Essential Skills. It has problem
sets similar to those used in TOWES, and is a tool which is useful in preparing
to write a TOWES assessment. Each problem set is based on a document -
a memo, catalogue, regulations, work order - associated with workplace
contexts... more
Announcements - Looking
for news and press releases about TOWES? Check out our Announcements page,
which chronologically lists links to current and past announcements...
more
FAQs - Our FAQs page contains
answers to frequent asked questions such as "How do I get my TOWES
results?"... more
TOWES Research Library -
TOWES is committed to identifying workplace Essential Skills clearly and
then providing effective upgrading as needed. The more effort invested
in making TOWES valid and reliable, the better we are able to meet that
objective. To that end, research is ongoing... more
The TOWES Team - Meet the
team behind TOWES... more
TOWES Related Links -
Visit some other sites for related information on Essential Skills... more
Page Updated: Thursday, November 16, 2006