Human Resources: McCann Associates Announces the Release of Measured Success(TM)

LAS VEGAS-June 25, 2007-McCann Associates (www.mccanntesting.com), a leading provider of custom-developed high-stakes and diagnostic professional assessments, announced the release of Measured Success(TM), a dynamic online program that allows businesses, institutions, and organizations to create assessments, surveys, and training programs tailored to their exact needs. The announcement was made today at a private briefing during the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference held in Las Vegas.

"At a time when U.S. Department of Labor reports indicate that voluntary turnover has increased to 23.4 percent, Measured Success serves as a powerful tool that addresses the growing need for businesses to recruit, develop, and retain the right combination of skilled and knowledgeable candidates and employees," says Pamela Kirby, Vice President of McCann Associates.

With Measured Success, employers now have an affordable and effective solution to manage all of their 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, high-stakes, and practice certification assessments, 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(TM) 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.

While Measured Success allows for the creation and delivery of customized tests, there are also pre-created diagnostic test packages designed to measure reading, writing, math, and computer skills.

With the ever increasing demand for computer savvy employees, the Measured Success suite of assessments, which cover word processing, Internet, e-mail, windows, database spreadsheets, and presentations, helps employers reliably assess employee and job candidate skills, target crucial improvement areas, and provide key instruction designed to enhance computer knowledge, skills, and confidence.

"We take pride in our commitment to help employers choose, retain, certify, train, and promote the best people for the job," commented Kirby. "McCann Associates has been an integral part of the employee selection process for decades. Now, we are excited to provide our unique blend of online assessment technology to a broader industry segment."

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(TM), 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(TM), 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.mccanntesting.com.