Description

Measuring the educational needs and progress of every person in your program starts with the Wonderlic General Assessment of Instructional Needs (GAIN)®. Whether it’s a student in need of remedial tutoring, a jobseeker in a Workforce Development program, a person entering an Adult Basic Education or Literacy program or an applicant enrolling in a Career College, the detailed, yet easy-to-understand diagnostics this assessment for learning provides will help you steer them on the right path to success!

In just 90 minutes, this assessment for learning measures the English and math skills of adults and teens, from basic literacy and numeracy to more advanced skills taught in secondary schools. GAIN helps place students in courses that match their skill levels and provides information that can be used to create individual study plans to remediate deficiencies. Progress testing and post testing demonstrates educational gains students have made in the program.

The Wonderlic General Assessment of Educational Needs (GAIN)® helps measure English and math skills in accordance with the Educational Functioning Levels (EFLs) as defined by the U.S. National Reporting System (NRS). This literacy and numeracy test is approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in Workforce Investment Act (WIA) out-of-school youth programs and by the U.S. Department of Education for use in NRS-funded Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs.

Areas evaluated by the literacy test include:

• Reading
  • Information Retrieval
  • Letter and Word Recognition
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Words in Context
• Grammar/Usage/Style
  • Parts of Speech
  • Proofreading for Grammatical Errors
  • Punctuation/Capitalization
  • Sentence Structure

Areas evaluated by the numeracy test include:

• Arithmetic
  • Addition
  • Basic Numeracy
  • Division
  • Multiplication
  • Subtraction
• Rational Numbers, Operations and Charts/Graphs
  • Charts and Graphs
  • Fractions and Decimals
  • Operations
• Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry
  • Geometry and Trigonometry
  • Pre-Algebra/Algebra     

GAIN can be used as a pretest, progress test and a post-test for all career colleges, Adult Basic Education (ABE), Literacy, WIA and tutoring programs, and measures all levels of students on one form. The easy-to-use graphical report provides the test taker’s English and math scores and corresponding Educational Functioning Levels, which can be cross-walked to equivalent grade levels.

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Features

GAIN offers features that support quicker and more effective student evaluation for today’s market:

Two Administration Methods Available

• Online administration, scoring and reporting 
  • On-site from any computer with Internet connectivity 
  • Individual or group administration 
  • Results are available in minutes 
• Paper-and-pencil administration  
  • Fax-back or template scoring 
  • Includes step-by-step administration guide 
  • Individual or group administration 

Intuitive Results Report

• Reports Educational Functioning Levels (EFLs) for English and math skills
• Compares current skill level with prior test results
• Includes detailed scores for five subscales and 18 categories
• Provides instructional needs for the development of study plans

Simple Record Management in Wonderlic Online

• Results are automatically entered into student’s record
• Can be integrated with student tracking systems and state databases via optional Data Exchange service

Sophisticated Test Design

• Item Response Theory scoring uses a holistic view of the candidate’s response pattern to ensure integrity of the results

90-Minute Administration