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2010

  • Bow Valley College is seeking a Contractor who is an Adult Literacy and Data Analysis Expert for our upcoming projects. Click for more info: ALM Project  RtS Project (February 18, 2010) - Bow Valley College has received funding from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada...
     

2009

2008

  • TOWES Specification Sheet - Alisa Foreman (November 6, 2008) - TOWES is a test that is useful for establishing the Essential Skill level in Reading Text, Document Use, and Numeracy at which an individual is effectively operating... more
     
  • TOWES Case Studies - Conrad Murphy (March 2, 2007) - Read about how seven companies have implemented TOWES, Canada's Essential Credential, and have improved employee essential skills testing and screening... more
     

2007

2005

  • TOWES profiled in the Canadian HR Reporter - Conrad Murphy (July 21, 2005) - TOWES was profiled in the July 18, 2005 issue of Canadian HR Reporter. The story titled "Assessing essential skills to recruit and train" emphasized how TOWES is becoming a standard tool for assessing a worker's essential skills... more
     
  • Nova Scotia Power - Michael Herzog (March 17, 2005) - TOWES is developing a custom profile and a custom TOWES test for the Class II Power Engineers at Nova Scotia Power. We started in December 2004 and the draft profile has been written and is now being validated by HR experts at NSP. Once validated, work will begin on the custom TOWES test for this group... more
     
  • Building Workplace Essential Skills Online - Update - Barb Fyvie (March 17, 2005) - Bow Valley College has adapted their existing Building Workplace Essential Skills classroom course for online delivery. The curriculum covers Reading Text, Document Use and Numeracy and is a highly interactive online tool that is fully articulated with TOWES... more
     
  • TOWES en français - Update - Michael Herzog (March 17, 2005) - The TOWES team is in their third and final phase of testing of this pilot version of our French version of TOWES. Once the 700 tests in this phase have been written and the feedback from the test takers is collected we will move into the development phase... more
     
  • TOWES Research with Employment Assistance Providers - Michael Herzog (March 17, 2005) - TOWES has been working in four different regions in Canada with 12 different Employment Assistance Program (EAP) providers to look at using TOWES in their practices. The goal of this research is to determine the utility of essential skills methodology within employment assistance programs... more
     
  • Essential Skills Awareness Campaign Concludes - Michael Herzog (March 17, 2005) - The Essential Skills Awareness Campaign, carried out in conjunction with Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) has now been concluded. The broad objectives of the Essential Skills Awareness campaign were to... more
     
  • TOWES in the Canadian HR Reporter - Conrad Murphy (March 16, 2005) - TOWES was mentioned in the lead story of the February 28, 2005 issue of Canadian HR Reporter. The story titled "Poor reading, math skills a drag on productivity, performance" spotlighted TOWES as a tool that assesses a worker's essential skills... more
     
  • CPRN Publishes Skills Upgrading Survey - Conrad Murphy (January 21, 2005) - The Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN) has published a new report that examines Canadian initiatives designed to promote skills upgrading for less-skilled workers to uncover the conditions that contribute to success in such endeavours... more
     

2004

  • Essential Skills Awareness Campaign - Michael Herzog (November 4, 2004) - This initiative directly supports HRSD's goal of creating a more productive workforce by improving essential skills levels. It also supports the Government of Canada's priority to "attract and retain the highly qualified people required to fuel Canada's innovation performance" as outlined in the report Canadians Speak on Innovation and Learning: the Government of Canada's Innovation Strategy... more
     
  • TOWES en français - Update - Krista Medhurst (November 4, 2004) - In the spring of 2004, our college partners (TREAQ-FP, Cegep Sorel Tracy, College Boreal, College La Cite, New Brunswick Community College) participated in a field test of the first version of TOWES in French. This test was roughly equivalent to a G2 and consisted of 20 problem sets... more
     
  • Building Workplace Essential Skills Online - Update - Barb Fyvie (October 27, 2004) - In response to HRSDC's initiative to provide alternative ways of delivering essential skills training in Canada, Bow Valley College is adapting their existing Building Workplace Essential Skills classroom course for online delivery... more
     
  • Essential Skills and Safety Report - Conrad Murphy (October 21, 2004) - In March 2004, The Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC) and the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI) concluded a pilot project to determine whether there might be a correlation between the skill levels that Petroleum Professional Drivers have in Reading Text, Document Use and Numeracy and the likelihood of having safety incidents... more
     
  • TOWES in the Canadian Learning Journal - Conrad Murphy (September 21, 2004) - TOWES is the lead article in the Fall 2004 issue of the Canadian Learning Journal. The Canadian Learning Journal is published by the Canadian Society of Training and Development (CSTD). The issue will be distributed to delegates at CSTD's conference in Toronto this November... more
     
  • TOWES in the Calgary Herald - Conrad Murphy (September 18, 2004) - Employers and colleges across Canada are embracing a new, widespread testing tool for essential workplace skills in the wake of evidence that it boosts safety and productivity dramatically, while also providing a method for non-traditional labour pools to gain mainstream credentials required to work in any job in the country, say experts... more
     
  • TOWES Announces New IRT Test Results - Kirsten Norris (May 26, 2004) - The item response theory (IRT) scoring procedures that are used in TOWES (established by the International Adult Literacy Survey - IALS) provide a statistical solution for establishing one or more Skill Levels for a set of tasks in which the ordering of difficulty is essentially the same for everyone... more
     
  • TOWES en français - Krista Medhurst (May 26, 2004) - With support from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and the National Literacy Secretariat, TOWES is currently leading a research project to create and pilot a French version of the TOWES test... more
     
  • TOWES Online - Conrad Murphy (May 26, 2004) - An impact study has been done on electronic capture and TOWES. A common version of the G2 test was administered online with 113 individuals... more
     
  • Building Workplace Essential Skills Online - Barb Fyvie (May 26, 2004) - In response to HRDC's initiative to provide alternative ways of delivering essential skills training in Canada, Bow Valley College is adapting their existing Building Workplace Essential Skills classroom course for online delivery... more
     
  • TOWES Awareness Campaign - Michael Herzog (May 26, 2004) - TOWES is currently working with a number of their college partners to conduct a campaign that expands Essential Skills awareness among Canadian employers and employees... more
     
  • TOWES Transfer of Ownership - Conrad Murphy (April 5, 2004) - The joint venture partners in the development of the innovative assessment tool, TOWES, are announcing a change in management. Effective April 2004, production responsibilities will move from SkillPlan to Bow Valley College... more
     
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