The evaluation leads into program planning, where people determine their priorities and the help they need to achieve their objectives for the coming year.

At the time of its development, the Adult Literacy Volunteer Tutor Program Evaluation Kit was considered a leading-edge document. It helped stimulate other initiatives in best practices and quality standards in Ontario and Alberta. The model has since been adapted for workplace, ESL, family literacy and most recently for use with Francophone groups using employment skills as a basis of training (Audrey Thomas, personal communication).

BC later developed the ABE Program Quality Framework. This consisted of 15 common components, each of which has a good practice statement followed by a list of relevant indicators. It too leads into program planning.

Also in 1989, the Province of British Columbia and the National Literacy Secretariat sponsored a project to identify and report on exemplary programs and innovative practices for adult literacy across Canada. Exemplary Adult Literacy Programs and Innovative Practices in Canada describes a variety of models of institutional, workplace and community-based programs in different locations throughout Canada.