A Norms Books is needed when hand scoring TABE 7 & 8 to determine scale scores, grade equivalents, percentile ranks, and stanines.
TABE Prescriptive Assignments
Software provides prescriptive assignments based on TABE 7 & 8 Complete Battery scores. It provides prescriptions for materials from the following publishers: BLS/STAT Tutor Programs, Con temporary Books, EDL, McGraw-Hill's Open Integrated Learning System, PACE, Skills Bank II, and Steck-Vaughn.
Instructional Strategies
The TABE User's Handbook provides samples of instructional strategies for adults.
The TABE Work-Related Foundation Skills are norm-referenced tests that measure achievement of basic skills in reading, mathematics, and language. These tests assess the skills needed to function in the workplace. There are four forms of the TABE Work-Related Foundation Skills: Health, Trade/Technical, Business/Office, and General.
The assessment content does not require the student to have knowledge or experience in any particular occupational area. All of the forms of the TABE Work-Related Foundation Skills measure comparable skills. The General form presents a blend of various occupational settings for its con text and can be used as an alternate for each of the other forms. The Health, Trade/Technical, and Business/Office forms are set in specific job-related contexts, with each one emphasizing skills that are appropriate to its particular occupational cluster.
Each of the forms of the TABE Work-Related Foundation Skills tests contains the following tests: Reading, Mathematics Computation, Applied Mathematics, and Language. Total time for taking the test is 2 hours.
Reading
Applied Mathematics