McCann Associates to provide practice testing and scoring for ABCTE’s Professional Teaching Knowledge & English Language Arts Examinations using IntelliMetric®

Newtown, Pa., April 14, 2008 –

McCann Associates (www.mccanntesting.com), the leading provider of online assessment tools, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE). This collaboration will provide prospective teachers with the opportunity to improve their writing skills and increase their scores on the Professional Teaching Knowledge (PTK) and English Language Arts (ELA) Examinations.

Teacher candidates can practice for these exams by completing open-ended essays where within seconds they receive a score on their writing. The McCann programs help reduce test anxiety by providing candidates with the opportunity to boost their individual writing scores and become familiar with the type of essay they may encounter on the actual exams.

The program is powered by McCann’s award-winning IntelliMetric scoring engine, which utilizes advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to score open-ended essays with unparalleled scoring accuracy.

According to Paul Edelblut, Vice President of McCann Associates, “We are very pleased to be able to help prospective teachers in any way we can. We are strongly committed to all aspects of education. Our partnership with ABCTE allows us to enhance that commitment by helping prospective teachers excel on the PTK & ELA Exams.”

William Schimmel, Vice President of Business Administration for ABCTE adds, “ABCTE is excited to partner with McCann to offer our candidates this option for both assessing and improving their writing skills. McCann, like us, is dedicated to enhancing the lives and careers of teachers everywhere. This is one more way we can make that happen.”

The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to recruiting, certifying, and supporting the excellent teachers who are essential to student success. ABCTE offers the Passport to Teaching program-an innovative alternative route to teacher certification for highly knowledgeable individuals who want to change careers by becoming teachers. For more information about ABCTE, please visit www.abcte.org

To access the complete selection of testing products available through the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence, visit ABCTE’s web site or www.vantageonlinestore.com (select “Partner Products” from the category menu).
About McCann Associates

McCann Associates has designed and delivered custom, high-stakes and diagnostic professional assessments for public and private organizations since 1959. McCann now offers Measured SuccessTM, a customizable web-based assessment program that allows for item and test creation, test delivery, scoring, reporting, remediation, data management and account management. Learn more at www.McCannTesting.com.