Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician

Essential Skills Inventory

ASSESSOR’S GUIDE

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GLOSSARY

The definitions are intended as a guide for the language used in the Essential
Skills Inventories.

ABE Adult Basic Education

Apprentice For the purpose of this Guide, apprentice is an inclusive
term that refers to anyone working in a trade except those
already certified.

Authentic workplace
documents

Actual documents obtained from an employer that may be

used as teaching tools. An example document is a Material

Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).

Block Release Training A period of in-school training for apprentices. It may also
be referred to as Period Training or a Level.

Dynamic (interactive)
Assessment

A flexible, holistic, context-sensitive approach used to

evaluate learning.

Essential Skills The set of nine skills defined by Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada as being common to all occupations.
The skills are: reading text (technical language), document
use, numeracy (math), oral communication, writing,
computer use, thinking skills, continuous learning and
working with others.

Essential Skills Profile A document that describes how each Essential Skill is used
by an occupational group.

GED General Education Diploma; a Grade 12 equivalency for
adults.

Grade 12 A diploma issued by a provincial or territorial government
that recognizes completion of High School. It is a challenge
to use this as a common credential, since there are several
different Grade 12 diplomas.