The WorkKeys Applied Math assessment is published by ACT and measures critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and problem solving techniques for situations that occur in today’s workplace. The test is 55 minutes and 34 items, and students are allowed to use calculators. The test represents 5 levels of difficulty and can be used in combination with the WorkKeys Graphic Literacy
test and the WorkKeys Workplace Documents test to award a student the National Career Readiness Certificate.
Content
Required skills on this assessment may include:
- Solving math problems using one mathematical operation
- Calculating customer order totals and correct change
- Identifying necessary and unnecessary information within a word problem
- Adding commonly used decimals, fractions, and percentages (such as .25 or 50%)
- Using multiple steps of mathematical reasoning and calculation in a single problem
- Solving problems which require operations using mixed units (such as subtracting 2 feet and 9 inches from 4 feet and 11 inches, or adding 3 hours and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes)
- Using multiple step conversions to convert units between or within systems of measurement (such us converting from kilograms to grams to pounds)
- Identifying the appropriate equation to solve a problem
- Setting up and manipulating rates, ratios, or proportions when at least one quantity is a fraction
Administration Information
All members of the testing staff are required to complete a training plan to prepare for the test administration. https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/workkeys-for-e…
Access and Use
$22.00
Jensen, S. K. (2006). An investigation of the relationship among attitudes toward cooperation, math anxiety, and mathematics performance in vocational education courses with an enhanced mathematics curriculum. University of Minnesota. https://search.proquest.com/docview/305308557
Sadler, W. (2009). "WorkKeys Mathematics Skill-Level Scores as Predictors for Placement into College-Level Mathematics." Old Dominion University. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context…
Psychometrics
ACT (2019). WorkKeys Applied Mathematics technical manual. https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/WorkKeys-Applie…