Date: 01/03/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Hello everyone!

I'm new to this community and hope that this hasn't been asked before. I tried looking at previous entries and couldn't find anything along the lines of my question.

I'm a homework time instructor for a non-profit's computer lab that is open to it's clients who are homeless and to the community (which is generally low income & non native English speakers).  I have been asked by my program director to come up with a computer literacy assessment to give to our clients and others who use the computer lab. The information would be used to know what the clients need to learn to advance their computer skills and to also provide data to the company that donates money to the computer center. The company who donates money to the upkeep of the computer center is interested in seeing what computer literacy the clients come in with and if any change is made after repeated use of the computer center.  The main focus of offering the computer center to the homeless clients and the community is to support them in furthering their education and finding better jobs & careers.  We have a typing program on all computers, Windows office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher), Windows media and access to the internet. 

Now that you have some background on my situation, I was hoping that someone in this community would have some feedback for me as to a computer literacy assessment I could use that is very simple to read and answer (I will need to translate it into Spanish as well) and covers the basics of computer literacy.  My program director says that I don't have to think of anything from scrap and can use someone else's assessment as long as it's okay with the other party. 

I've tried googling computer literacy assessment and a lot of what I get is assessment for university level classes which is not the simple assessment that I'm looking for.

If anyone has any links or feedback they can offer on my situation, I'll appreciate greatly.

Thank you,
Paola

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