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Harcourt Assessment (San Antonio, TX), a unit of Reed Elsevier that provides educational assessment instruments and testing programs.


Harcourt Assessment Harcourt Assessment, previously known as "The Psychological Corporation" is a company that publishes and distributes psychological assessment tools and therapy resources. The company is currently in the process of being bought by Pearson.  (San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. , TX), a unit of Reed Elsevier that provides educational assessment instruments and testing programs, has acquired Ordinate ordinate: see Cartesian coordinates.

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 Corporation (Menlo Park Menlo Park.

1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there.

2 Uninc.
, CA), a company that specializes in automated language proficiency assessments and provides test delivery and scoring services. No terms were given. Ordinate offers an automated method for evaluating spoken language proficiency based on voice recognition technology for educational, commercial and governmental organizations. The purchase is Harcourt Assessment's third in as many years. Last December it acquired the Dutch testing company Swets Testing International and in April 2002 it acquired Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquee (Paris).
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Date:Sep 30, 2004
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