The Midland Area Reading Council includes the following responsibilities in its Tutor Job Description: “Set goals with the student and frequently evaluate progress towards them” and “Complete semi-annual written progress reports.”(27)

Kingston Literacy requires its tutors to “complete weekly tutor reports” and “discuss the student’s progress with the Tutor Coordinator.”(28) This program has developed an assessment kit to provide a “user-friendly, manageable method to track learning.”(29) Many other programs across the province have incorporated or adapted the ongoing assessment forms and methods in the kit for their tutors to use.

The Literacy Council of Norristown in Pennsylvania uses its online tutor report form to find out about “significant achievements.”(30)

Setting the Compass, a resource produced The Association of Literacy Coordinators of Alberta, includes the following responsibilities in a Volunteer Adult Literacy Tutor Job Description: “evaluating lessons and providing literacy coordinator with accurate documentation (including student progress).”(31)

A variety of American literacy programs such as The Literacy Project in Massachusetts, Project Read in California, the Literacy Council of Reading-Berks in Pennsylvania and the Kent County Literacy Council in Oregon all include a reference to reporting student progress in their tutor job descriptions.(32)

In 2000, Community Literacy of Ontario produced a report called Skills for the Future as part of the Practitioner Training Strategy project. The report included a skills list for literacy tutors, and observation skills were included as a high priority.(33)