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Read through the résumés of the executives leading Pearson VUE™, the Minnesota-based company taking over delivery, administration, and scoring of the Graduate Management Admission Test® in 2006, and you’ll see that they are experts in computer-based testing.
Pearson VUE™—whose clients include the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the National Association of Security Dealers, and Microsoft—will use its staff’s hundreds of years of combined testing-system experience and the patented testing-center technology and infrastructure to improve the security, reporting capabilities, and worldwide accessibility of the GMAT® exam. “We’re excited about helping evolve the GMAT to make it even better and more efficient over time,” said Don Wagner, vice president of business development at Pearson VUE™.
Iowa-based ACT™, the organization that will develop the GMAT® starting next January, is similarly steeped in testing experience, particularly in higher education. In addition to developing and managing the longstanding ACT™ college assessment and Compass ESL (English as a Second Language) computer-based college placement exam, ACT™ conducts test development for the Law School Admission Test® and the Medical College Admission Test®.
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