At present an assessment tool is being deveopled by the NZCER.
Here is a link to a trial of the tool.
The challenge that faces those who develop the tool is enormous, when one considers even the most fundamental definitions of numeracy. It is one thing to seek out a "context" for an assessment item. It is entirely another that that so-called "context" is suffciently de-institutionalized to offer the kinds of real everyday affordances that enable the adult to perform numeracy.
One seriously doubts, for example that multi-choice type questions even remotely approach that goal.
The issue of course is one of 'validity'. What does the test measure? How well does it measure? Here is an article that discusses the issues around numeracy assessment in some detail.
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