Best Practices: A Comparison of Canadian Documents (cont.)

Best Practice and Indicators	BC Tutor Evaluation Kit	BC ABE Program Quality Framework	Ontario Quality Standards	Saskatchewan Best Program Practices	NWT Quality Standards (Draft Document)
Accountability (cont.)
Provides quantitative and qualitative indicators of success
Instruction develops learners’ skills for real life
Encourages learners’ active participation in learning and evaluation process
Ensures evaluation process allows for learners to measure their own progress
Documents increased learner participation in literacy at home, at work and in the community
Documents staff perceptions of progress
Completes learner and staff evaluations
Program Commitment to Learners/Learner Commitment to Program
Helps learners meet their goals
Recognizes that learners’ goals are broad
Has structures and supports in place to increase access and equitable outcomes
Helps learners’ obtain the skills for everyday life in the community according to learners’ goals
Helps learners set goals based on understanding of time and commitment requirements