WorkKeys® Locating Information

The Locating Information assessment is the skill of finding, extracting, understanding and using information that is not in the form of normal text. These types of documents include charts, graphs, tables, forms, maps and drawings. Many traditional school curricula do not treat this as a separate topic. Companies find that this is one of the areas where tools such as KeyTrain are most needed. The KeyTrain course examines all of the document types identified in ACT’s Targets for Instruction.

At lower levels each type of graphic is examined individually. These include pie charts, bar charts, line graphs, tables, maps, diagrams and gauges. At higher levels, emphasis is placed on summarizing information in graphics, relating or combining information in multiple graphics, and understanding unfamiliar and complex new types of graphical information. For complex graphics, the user can easily zoom up to full screen views, or print out high quality work sheets.

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