Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the NOCTI web site. We hope that the topics you find here will answer your questions, but if you need more information, please contact us. Our staff is eager to visit with you about your needs.

NOCTI is committed to providing the highest quality assessments for business and education.  The new Perkins IV legislation has elevated the interest and, in some cases, the concern about technical skill assessment. Though technical skill assessment or attainment may not be well understood at this time, the positive value of quality assessment in improving learning for our students and productivity for our businesses should not be overlooked.

When educators and businesses have assessment instruments that align with professional skill standards, we have better accountability for education and a tool to demonstrate student competency to employers.  Educators can match their curriculum, professional development and intervention with the skills students require for their successes. Businesses can identify skills necessary for particular jobs and align their hiring and training opportunities accordingly.

The entire staff at NOCTI is here to help you design an accountability system that meets your demands whether you are an education or a business leader. Helping you define and then test for the core competencies you need to assess both student learning and employee skills is what the staff does best.
For our clients in education, we want to help turn your testing outcomes into a positive tool for improvement and to help meet Perkins IV requirements. We can work with you to identify the competencies your students must learn and how to test for their mastery. We can help you turn assessment in your school into a powerful motivator for learning.

For our business partners, our sister company The Whitener Group can assist in improving your productivity by developing an assessment package that will help define the skills workers already have or what they need for your company to advance. We have instruments to help you assess the skills of potential employees, identify training requirements of current employees, or certify a particular skill level.

America’s future as the world economic leader depends on preparing our workforce with the skills industries have identified as essential. That is why NOCTI is prepared to lead the way in identifying these skills and assessing the outcomes along with the business and industry partners with whom we work.

We sincerely hope you will rely on our staff to help meet your assessment needs.

Sincerely,

Belinda McCharen, Ed.D
Chair of the Board of Trustees