Automatic Generation of Personalised Basic Skills Summary Reports

Partners

University of Aberdeen and Cambridge Training and Development Ltd.

Funding

SkillSum is one of a number of projects funded by ESRC, EPSRC and the DTI under the PACCIT (People @ the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies). LINK programme.

Aim

SkillSum developed an automatic assessment and reporting tool for adult basic skills (literacy and numeracy). The tool was a web-based system that allowed new entrant students at a college to take a basic skills assessment as part of their normal enrollment process. When the test was completed, the tool produced a report for the user describing his or her skill level and whether this was adequate for the course about to be taken, and suggesting actions he or she could take to improve basic skills.

Contacts

University Contact

Ehud Reiter
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Phone: +44 (0)1224 273443
Email: ereiter@csd.abdn.ac.uk

Industry Contact

Lesley Crichton
Cambridge Training and Development Ltd.
Lincoln House, The Paddocks
347 Cherry Hinton Road
Cambridge CB1 8DH
Phone: +44 (0)1223 470480
Email: lesleyc@ctad.co.uk