All Illinois workNet partners can provide the 21st Century Skills Assessments to their customers for free.
- Log into your Illinois workNet workforce partner account.
- Click on My Tools
for a list of tools. - Click on NOCTI 21st Century Skills Assessment for instructions and to order the online assessments with immediate access.
- Important Notes:
- The first time a site requests to become a NOCTI proctor site: An Illinois workNet account holder with a user role of organization administrator or higher must make the initial request. The person who submits the original request will be the site contact for NOCTI. If you do not meet the above criteria, you will be automatically provided the appropriate contact information and next steps to get your location set up.
- First time you request access to the NOCTI assessments and your site is already set up as a proctor site. Once you agree to the terms of use, you will have access to ordering assessments.
Order the Assessment
Once the assessments are ordered, participants can immediately access the assessment. It is recommended that you order the assessments online no more than 7 days before the event for only those who are scheduled to attend the event.
Things to consider before ordering the assessments:
- What time is available? Will you need one session or break it into two sessions?
- 1 = One two-hour session to complete the 100-question assessment
- 2 = Two 60 minute sessions to complete the 100-question assessment (50 questions per session)
- 3 = Three 40 minute sessions to complete the 100-question assessment (approximately 33 questions per session)
- Who are the participants?
- Adults
- Dislocated workers
- Youth
- Note: If you have a mixed group, you may want to have separate test codes for youth, dislocated worker, and adult. Each participant will receive the same assessment. However, the classification allows you to look at the scores at a later date and distinguish between the different types of customers completing the assessment. For example, a person with years of work experience will most likely get a higher score on the assessment than someone with minimal work experience.
- Will some participants need to have the assessment read to them? If so, order a Text-to Speech (TTS) version for that participant?
- They will need to use headphones for this assessment.
- Use a separate order to create a separate passcode for this assessment. By using a different passcode you can make sure the appropriate person gets the TTS assessment. For example, if you have 15 participants total and 2 need text to speech, order 13 using passcode "Test728" and 2 using passcode "Test728-tts".
- What do you want to use as a session passcode?
- This must be a unique code.
- It is not case sensitive and must be between 5-25 characters.
- We recommend using an abbreviation for your center (or proctor last name) and the date.
- Add "-tts" to the end of the passcode for text-to-speech tests
- Add "Y" for youth
- Add "DW" for dislocated worker
- Add "A" for adult
- When are you going to offer the proctored assessment and how many people will attend?
- With each order that is submitted, a message will appear at the top of the page to confirm the order was successful.
- Within the message is a link to a business card size instruction sheet for your customers. Save the electronic copy and print the business card size handouts for participants.
- Click Show/Hide Past Orders to see used passcodes and order dates.
Participants will receive a score summary immediately after the test. Official scores (processed by NOCTI) will be available 48 hours after assessment completion.
The official scores will be available for both the individual and Illinois workNet partner. If the participant successfully completed the NOCT assessment, they will be able to download the NOCTI Certificate of Completion.
Individual: The participant will receive a notice when their official scores are available in their Illinois workNet account. Once they log into their account, they can click on the Results tab to view the results and guidance if additional skill enhancement is needed.
Illinois workNet Partner: Workforce partners can view the results of individuals through
customer groups . Once in your customer group, select the show search options link to filter customers by completed assessments.
Illinois workNet Coordinators and Site Contact: The Site Contact can run group reports for their sites (based on date range and customer category). Illinois workNet Coordinators can run the same reports for their entire Local Workforce Investment Area (LWIA) or specific sites within their LWIA.
- Log into your workforce partner account and select Site Administration.
- Select Activity Reports.
- Select Average NOCTI Scores and enter the desired search criteria.