Press Release - September 18, 2007
McCann Associates and Net-Security Training Announce Global Partnership to Provide Online Compliance Testing
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Newtown, Pa., September 18, 2007 - McCann Associates (www.mccanntesting.com), a leading provider of online assessment tools for certification and testing, and Net-Security Training, a leading provider of instructor-led training and assessment for information security products and services, have teamed up to improve assessment methods on two major compliance tests, Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II tests.Net-Security Training will utilize McCann's Measured Success™ platform for online, secure delivery, scoring and reporting of Net-Security Training assessments. Measured Success is used by leading corporations, government and educational organizations, including General Electric-Microwave Data Systems and the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.
According to Paul Edelblut, Vice President of McCann Associates, "We are thrilled about our worldwide partnership with Net-Security Training. Our commitment to instant, accurate compliance testing is something we take very seriously, and we are excited about the opportunity to provide the financial services industry with a proven solution on a global scale."
Measured Success is an affordable and effective solution for managing certification, training and assessment needs from a single program, using as few or as many of the features they need. The program has eight main components:
- Item Authoring - Access the easy-to-use item authoring tool to create and organize your own multiple choice, short answer and open-ended test questions.
- Test Creation - Use the test creator to prepare tests for academic use, certification exams, practice tests, pre-employment assessments, training surveys and more.
- Test Delivery - Deliver tests securely online and control testing options such as the number of times a test may be taken, timer, warning messages, random item delivery, test navigation rules, and score report display.
- Scoring - Receive immediate, reliable scoring of multiple choice, short answer and essay questions, set a passing score and control the amount of feedback displayed. Link scores to action items, such as required reading, assignments or certificate of completion.
- Reporting - Immediate access to individual reports, group performance reports and item analysis reports or customize your own report with specific data fields.
- Remediation - Use iSEEK™ discovery tool and the resource center to retrieve pertinent information for examinees.
- Data Management - Collect and manage your data with import and export tools and organize your data in customized reports for easy access.
- Account Management - Create unlimited administrator and learner accounts as needed either individually or through batch import.
About Net Security Training
London-based Net-Security Training is the market leader in information security, compliance and governance training. Net-Security specializes in providing instructor-led training for information security products and services. Along with its partners, Net Security offers both short-term and long-term courses in CISSP, Penetration Testing, VPN installation and Configuration, Firewall, compTIA security and other areas of security. The courses are intensive and interactive, and they give students hands-on experience in the chosen area. For more information, visit www.net-security-training.co.uk/index.html or call +44 (0)20 8900 9015.
About McCann Associates
McCann Associates has designed and delivered custom-developed high-stakes and diagnostic professional assessments for public and private organizations since 1959, with an emphasis on employment screening and career advancement evaluations for public safety occupations. Private and public institutions alike rely on McCann assessments to make reliable judgments of individuals. For nearly five decades, more than 1 million prospective police officers, firefighters and EMTs can point to a McCann assessment as the starting point to a successful and fulfilling professional career.
Today, McCann Associates has expanded its focus to meaningfully impact the lives and careers of college students, prospective employees and professionals. McCann's offerings include Measured Success™, with pre-packaged diagnostic assessments for College Readiness and Work Skills covering math, reading, writing, and computer skills; MYAccess!® Professional, an online writing instructional program that immediately evaluates written submissions, provides individualized revision plans, and includes a plethora of online writing tools; Correct English™, a writing improvement and productivity tool for use in everyday business writing that provides grammar and spelling feedback in over a dozen languages, revision tips, models of exemplar business memorandums, letters, proposals, reports and much more; and paper and pencil assessment services including item writing, test creation, printing and shipping, scoring and reporting. Learn more at www.mccantesting.com.