PES Announces Partnership with TesTrac

New York, NY, June 2002 - Professional Examination Service (PES) is pleased to announce a partnership with TesTrac.com Ltd. (TesTrac), a Minneapolis-based technology company that delivers examinations and training materials through the Internet. The partnership allows PES to offer its clients a new choice for online testing that provides an array of delivery options at competitive prices, including testing in multiple languages both nationally and internationally.

According to I. Leon Smith, PES President and CEO, "Our relationship with TesTrac capitalizes on PES's strength in developing reliable, valid, and legally defensible examinations and TesTrac's technical expertise in customizing, building, and hosting web sites for a client's specific test delivery needs." The first PES client to benefit from the partnership is the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT), which launched a new online practice examination on June 3, 2002.

Commenting on the announcement, TesTrac's President, Doug Odell, said, "The partnership creates a perfect synergism. TesTrac's test delivery system and rich experience delivering examinations online are an ideal complement to PES's expert knowledge and tried and tested procedures for developing sound examination programs." A demo examination is available online at www.testrac.com. TesTrac's online delivery system offers the following benefits:

High-Level Security: TesTrac uses stringent security measures to control access to tests and test-related data and can also disable browser functions such as "print" and "copy" to prevent examinees from downloading test questions.

Flexible Registration: Clients can choose either open registration, allowing any individual to register and take an examination online; or pre-registration, giving access to online examinations only to authorized individuals.

Proctoring Alternatives: When security is a primary concern, online examinations can be delivered after a proctor has signed into the system, allowing the proctor to control who may take a test and when. Lower stakes examinations can be delivered without a proctor 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

In-Depth Score Feedback: TesTrac's system can provide feedback on areas of strength and weakness, as well as total test scores, and can direct test takers to resources for further study. TesTrac can also work with clients to create and deliver custom training programs.

Choice of Item Formats: Clients can choose from a wide range of item formats, including multiple-choice, short answer, true/false, fill in the blank, matching, ranking, and hotspots.

PES is a nonprofit organization with more than 60 years' experience developing, implementing, and evaluating licensure and certification programs. PES's mission is to promote the understanding and use of sound credentialing practices by providing comprehensive services and making contributions to credentialing stakeholders. For more information about customized online services from PES, contact Karen Cullen, Assistant Director, Proposal Development and Marketing, Professional Examination Service, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115-0089, phone: (212) 367-4276, e-mail: cullen@proexam.org.

Founded in 1991, TesTrac has created a powerful system for delivering proctored and non-proctored examinations via the Internet. TesTrac is currently a leader in delivering both examinations and training programs worldwide through the Internet. Its clients include IBM, Certified Medical Representatives Institute, Inc., Carrier Corporation, and Hunter Douglas, Inc. For more information about TesTrac's services, contact Doug Odell, President, TesTrac.com, 1409 Summit Oaks Drive, Burnsville, Minnesota 55337, phone: (952) 953-6292, e-mail: dbodell@testrac.com.