American Council on Education CREDIT Expands Recommendations for Prometric's DSST Credit by Exam Program.Prometric Prometric is a U.S. company that possesses significant market share in the test administration industry. On Monday, October 15th, 2007 Prometric's acquisition by Educational Testing Service (ETS) closed. Announces Additional Exams Scheduled for Content Refresh (1) To continuously charge a device that cannot hold its content. CRTs must be refreshed, because the phosphors hold their glow for only a few milliseconds. Dynamic RAM chips require refreshing to maintain their charged bit patterns. See vertical scan frequency and redraw. in 2009 BALTIMORE Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. -- Prometric, the world's leading provider of technology-enabled testing and assessment services and the administrator of the DSST DSST Denver School of Science and Technology (Colorado charter school) DSST DANTES Subject Standardized Test DSST Direct Signal Support Team DSST Dunlop Self Supporting Technology (TM) credit by exam program, today announced that the American Council on Education Established in 1918, the American Council on Education (ACE) is a United States organization comprising over 1,800 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education-related associations, organizations, and corporations. (ACE) CREDIT has completed its review of 10 recently refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. DSST exams and expanded its recommendations. In conducting its latest review of Prometric's 10 refreshed DSST exam titles, the ACE CREDIT has newly approved four of the exams to the Upper Division Baccalaureate degree category in addition to their previous recommendation of Lower Baccalaureate category only. This enhancement now allows students in higher 300 or 400 level college courses to take the Introduction to World Religions, Here's to Your Health, Ethics in America and Criminal Justice exams for three recommended college credits a piece, significantly expanding the pool of students who can leverage these exams for college credit. The ACE CREDIT has recommended for credit all of the 10 refreshed exams for three college credits. The ACE CREDIT regularly conducts reviews of the DSST exams to ensure the content is accurate, relevant and worthy of the three college credits it recommends for a passing score on any of the exams. About Prometric Prometric, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization) ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service ETS Electronic Trading System ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services , is the recognized global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services. Its comprehensive suite of services, including test development, test delivery and data management capabilities, allows clients to develop and launch global testing programs as well as accurately measure program results and data. Prometric reliably delivers and administers more than seven million tests a year on behalf of 450 clients in the academic, professional, healthcare, government, corporate and information technology markets. It delivers tests flexibly via the Web or by utilizing a robust network of more than 10,000 test centers in 163 countries. For more information, please visit www.prometric.com. |
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