Skilled to go - Learning everyday consumer skills

Learning everyday consumer skills - a teachers' toolkit

Skilled to go uses real life consumer situations, such as choosing a mobile phone, to help learners develop consumer skills, knowledge and confidence alongside literacy and numeracy.

This FREE toolkit of resources includes games, quizzes, role plays and case studies, plus video and audio content.

  • Teacher quotesView all

    'I'm the Curriculum leader for Skills for Life and Information and Guidance and I will be encouraging Programme Managers across the region to work with their tutors to train them up to use the resources.'
    Margaret Eaton, Curriculum Leader for Skills for Life and Information, Advice and Guidance, Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service

Research

We regularly undertake research to ensure Skilled to go is a high quality resource that meets teachers' needs.

Since its launch in 2008, we have commissioned a range of research projects to explore Skilled to go's effectiveness, find out how teachers use the resources in practice, and evaluate the financial benefits of Skilled to go for consumers. You can read the full reports below.

Evaluation of OFT's campaigns work (April 2011)

Evaluating the financial benefits for consumers of consumer education and awareness campaigns Just tick it and Skilled to go (pdf 396kb)

The Central Office of Information conducted an evaluation of OFT's Skilled to go consumer education programme, together with OFT's Just tick it marketing campaign. Their report explores the return on investment of these initiatives.

Skilled to go research report (Nov 2010 and Mar 2011): How Skilled to go is used in practice 

The aim of this two-stage research was to better understand teachers' use of Skilled to go in practice in order to make future improvements and maximise overall usage.

Stage one: Quantitative research carried out by the OFT Statistics team through an online survey.

Download research report (pdf 160 kb)

Download Annexes (pdf 197 kb)

Stage two: Qualitative research carried out by ORC Market research company through a range of focus groups, interviews and accomapnied web-surfs.

Download report (pdf 703 kb)

Download Annexes (pdf 1,246 kb)

Skilled to go research (Jan 2009)

Researching the effectiveness of the Skilled to go further education toolkit

This report outlines the results of a research project which LLU + , London South Bank University undertook on behalf of the OFT from August 2007 to April 2008.

Download Skilled to go evaluation (pdf 275 kb)

Download Annexes A - G (pdf 1.41 mb)
Download Annexe H (pdf 380 kb)
Download Annexe I (pdf 556 kb).

Its main aims were firstly, to test the appropriacy and effectiveness of two modules of the Skilled to go toolkit, and secondly, to suggest adaptations to the toolkit before it went live.

If you would like to be involved in future Skilled to go research projects, email oftconsumereducationteam@oft.gsi.gov.uk with the word Research in the title, and we hold onto your details and make contact nearer the time. 

Read more on what teachers say about Skilled to go on our Teacher quotes page or share you thoughts on the toolkit using our Teacher discussion board.

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