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For many of our clients and friends summer vacations are just around the corner and that means the majority of our technical assessments have been administered. For NOCTI it means a focus on scoring and reporting for the next several months. It also means a chance to focus on enhancements for the 2009-10 school year. This newsletter will cover some of those enhancements and I’ll comment on a few as well. For me personally, my youngest moves on to college this fall, so I anticipate becoming a part-time empty nester! As you may have noticed, NOCTI has implemented numerous enhancements to our ordering and reporting system this year. We are fortunate to have some very talented and creative individuals at NOCTI and by the time you read this newsletter a beta version of our Client Services Center will be available! We hope you will take the “risk” and try out the new version! It has a great user interface, more graphics, limits text, and contains a few surprises too. Let us know what you think. Using the talented people I mentioned, we’ve formed a “Creative Team” and they are designing a number of new materials and enhancing some of our existing publications. Our very popular study guides have a great new cover and our new soft skill test, the 21st Century Skills for Workplace Success, boasts an attractive new descriptive pamphlet. The Creative Team is also working on a useful new product entitled “Successful Schools, Successful Programs” which will help teachers and administrators utilize assessment data to improve programs. In terms of new test development, we are working on green initiatives in the residential construction, agricultural and power generation industries. NOCTI is proud to be working with some major industry partners in all of these areas. In addition, we are developing ten more pathway level tests – a list of those titles can be found on our web site at http://www.nocti.org/PDFs/RevisionSchedule.pdf (scroll to bottom of page). Lastly, we would like to thank the many new schools and states that have chosen to use our services this school year. It has been our pleasure to work with new sites in Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, and Illinois, just to name a few. We certainly appreciate our long time clients in those and other states as well! We hope you enjoy this edition of our newsletter and we would like to thank our supportive board, our national consortium, CTE associations and our many partners in business and industry. We are proud to be a member of the CTE family. I hope that you have an exciting summer planned!
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Dear Colleagues: As this message is written schools across the United States are engaged in various assessment of student achievement. The prevailing atmosphere of accountability in education has prompted the implementation of assessment in more and more facets of student achievement. The assessment of technical skills for career and technical education students is no exception. With the passage of Perkins IV a new era of career and technical education accountability dawned. The use of technical skill assessments is now required. However, the implementation of this requirement is often a perplexing issue. The good news is NOCTI may be an answer for those who face these challenges and need a solution. As with academic achievement, the ability to use high quality reliable and valid assessments is critical in meeting the intent of the Perkins IV Act. NOCTI is the recognized leader in developing and administering the highest quality technical skill attainment assessments. It has a long history of serving the career and technical education community with tests for students as well as for teacher certification. Let the friendly staff at NOCTI help relieve your stress. I encourage you to review the NOCTI website to see for yourself the quality of student preparation materials, the clear, and easy to interpret score reports and the online format and paper format assessments. Take this opportunity to check out NOCTI before you leave for summer break so you can face the fall semester with the confidence that you have a quality solution for your technical skill attainment assessment needs. Regards,
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