This guide is part of a suite of four guides designed for those working in Advanced Practitioner-type roles across the Further Education and Training Sector as part of the Education and Training Foundation's 'Professional Development Programme for Advanced Practitioners'. The guide will help Advanced Practitioners (APs) to rediscover things they already know and will add to their toolkit of skills, competencies, models and approaches.

An extensive booklet containing a summary and evaluation of the practitioner research undertaken by the North East and Cumbria team including Success North, HUDCETT and Skills Digital as part of OTLA Phase 3.

The ETF commissioned this research to review the extent to which phonics approaches are currently used with Entry level learners across the sector and to identify how adult literacy tutors might be supported to use phonics approaches effectively. In turn, the research has reviewed the existing evidence base on the efficacy of using phonics approaches with adult learners, and explored the context in which adult literacy teaching at Entry levels takes place.

This review was produced by the CETTAcademy team as part of an Education and Training Foundation project to review the current literature regarding the practices of initial and diagnostic assessment, as well as progress tracking, in the context of maths and English across the Education and Training sector.