Department for Education manages the development of new content for the professional skills tests for trainee teachers.

As you asking here I am telling Dept Of Education UK Professional skills tests for prospective teachers assess the core skills that teachers need to fulfil their professional role in schools, rather than the subject knowledge needed for teaching.

About test

The trial will take no longer than 15 minutes to complete, so can be undertaken whilst your test result is being processed

The trial will consist of either literacy or numeracy questions, dependent on the test you took

The questions will be in a similar format to the question in your skills test

The responses you give to the trial questions will not affect your skills test result

Your participation will help us to develop new test materials to use in the future

The skills tests:

Are in addition to the GCSE grade C or grade 4 equivalence entry requirement

Are set in the context of the professional role of a teacher

Assess the use of real data and information which teachers are likely to encounter

Are computerized and can be taken at learn direct skills test approved test centers throughout the UK

Go through a stringent quality assurance procedure

Are extensively piloted and the performance of each test is regularly monitored