Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills: 

• Summer Institute 2009: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills: What Works? and Why?
  

Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills Initiatives:  Measuring and Legitimating Success to Expand Access is a three-year project funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES), Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and sponsored by The Centre for Literacy of Quebec, Workplace Education Manitoba, Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Workforce Development, Canadian Council on Learning, with support from a New Zealand Department of Labour researcher. The goal of the project is to adapt and test an evaluation model that will measure long-term impacts of workplace Literacy and Essential Skills (LES), convincing employers that this investment pays, and motivating workers and employers to engage in LES in the workplace.
  
Adapting a recent evidence-based model from New Zealand that integrates quantitative and qualitative measures, the partners will apply it to ten sites in both Manitoba and Nova Scotia to compare their current working models and outcomes. 

Three months into the project, we have reviewed prior work in the provinces, updated a literature review and examined the outcomes from the NZ study. In 2010, we will design the research model for the sites.