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• Second Act for Company Behind WorkKeys

  - 2006-08-01

  WorkKeys is a concept that never took hold in the Quad-state region, other than at Lord Fairfax Community College and with some companies in the Virginia portion of the Northern Shenandoah Valley. The high cost of profiling jobs was cited as one reason for the lack ofinterest in WorkKeys, a...

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• GMAT Expands Reach, Further Strengthens Test Security Measures; Graduate Management Admission Council Launches New Partnership with Pearson VUE and ACT for Test Delivery and Development

  - 2006-01-04

  MCLEAN, Va. -- The Graduate Management Admission TestR (GMATR) has expanded its reach and is now available at more than 400 testing centers in nearly 100 countries around the world. Test security measures have also been enhanced to prevent cheating. Each GMAT test taker must now provide a fingerprint...

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• ACT selected to develop framework for new national writing test

  - 2005-12-15

  IOWA CITY, IOWA ACT Inc., best known for the exam it, gives each year to thousands of college hopefuls, has agreed to help revise a test used to measure the writing skills of public school students nationwide. The Iowa City-based testing company has been hired by the National...

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• After a Half-Century in Philadelphia, ACT Moves to Pennsylvania Suburbs

  - 2005-05-27

  PHILADELPHIA -- ACT, Inc., a Philadelphia corporation, and its multiple divisions is, soon to mark 50 years of being in business in Philadelphia is moving - to outside Philadelphia. ACT, Inc., a multi-pronged marketing and communications firm, is relocating June 1 to Montgomery County, PA. The new offices...

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• Graduate Management Admission Council Approves ACT Recommendation of Vantage Learning to Provide Essay Scoring Services Beginning 2006

  - 2005-02-28

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Vantage Learning's IntelliMetricTM Automated Essay-Scoring Program to Score Analytical Writing Assessment Portion of the GMATR Vantage Learning (www.VantageLearning.com), the world's leading provider of online assessment tools, has entered into an agreement with ACT Inc. to provide computer-based essay scoring for the Analytical Writing Assessment AWA portion...

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• ACT Creates New Company to Provide Educational Services Worldwide

  - 2005-01-10

  IOWA CITY, Iowa -- ACT, Inc., the Iowa-based company known worldwide for its educational and workforce development programs, including the highly-respected and widely-used college admissions testing program, has announced the creation of a new for-profit subsidiary, ACT Education Solutions, Inc. The new company, which is incorporated in Hong Kong, is...

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• NMTCB REPORT

  - 2004-12-01

  The first PET Specialty exam was administered on Saturday, September 18, 2004, at LaserGrade testing centers across the country. Like the NCT exam, administered on Saturday, August 14, 2004, Mother Nature played a cruel joke by denying some candidates at the peak of their exam preparation the opportunity to sit...

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• Unprepared for college.(ACT Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-10-28

  Unprepared for College: New research from ACT Inc. has found that less than a quarter of high school graduates who took the ACT college entrance exam had taken the classes needed to succeed in college. Just 22 percent of 1.2 million test-takers had taken necessary math, English...

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• ACT Invests in Teachers Support Network

  - 2004-07-27

  Teachers Support Network TSN announced that ACT, Inc., a leading independent, not-for-profit educational organization, has become an equity investor in Teachers Support Network. ACT provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information and program management services in education and workforce development, most notably the ACT Assessment college admissions exam...

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• Pearson Education to Share GMAT Testing Contract Victory with Iowa's ACT.

  - 2003-12-12

  By Dave DeWitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12--A Pearson Education unit has won a seven-year, $200 million contract to develop and administer the primary test used to select candidates for admission to Master of Business Administration...

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