Workforce Certification and Assessment

Our Workforce Certification and Assessment Center is designed to help you advance your career by providing credentialing opportunities that match your skills.  You can earn industry-recognized certifications that will give you job-ready competencies that are valued throughout the state, the country, and the world.

Benefits to Employers:

• Simplification of the employee screening and selection process.
• Greater employee knowledge and improved productivity.
• Increase ROI by quantifying course outcomes.

Benefits to Employees:

• Improve and validate your skills.
• Improve your employment/advancement opportunities and earning potential.
• Enhance your professional credibility.
• Earn college credit which can be applied towards your Associate's Degree.

Certification Testing

• Certiport – Microsoft MOS and IC3 testing for certification. Tests include Word, Core and Expert levels; Excel, Core and Expert levels; Access, PowerPoint and Outlook in both 2000, XP and 2003 versions.

• VUE – Computer certifications. The list is large and new tests are constantly being added. Some of the common ones are Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft Business Solutions, Crystal Reports, etc. Students may register through the VUE system and come to Ivy Tech for their tests. There is a student discount if enrolled in an Ivy Tech certification class.

• Prometric – The leading global provider of comprehensive testing and assessment services. Testing is for a variety of Microsoft product certifications from basic competency to expert level.

• ACT – Certification testing for State licensing, including tests for Social Work, Dieticians and Nuclear Medicine, automotive ASE certifications, and many more. All are computerized tests. Registration is handled through the ACT system. All fees are handled by ACT.

• LaserGrade – Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, Certified Electricians, State Board of Cosmetology, National Association of State Boards of Pharmacy, Lymph logy Association of America, International Conference of Building Officials, International Code Council, American Culinary Federation, among others. All registration and fees handled through LaserGrade.

• PAN – for Transportation Security Administration Department applicant testing and for Indiana Department of Insurance Testing.

• MSSC – for the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council. The tests measures knowledge and skills, and experience in four areas: Safety, Quality Practices and Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing Processes and Production, and Maintenance Awareness.

• EMT – paramedic skills testing for the National Registry certification exam.

• AWS Welding Certifications – testing for a wide variety of welding certification programs which are recognized worldwide.

Assessment Center Links

Ivy Tech Community College – Northeast is an authorized assessment center for a number of major national testing and evaluation organizations. Whether you’re looking for a professional certification or college credit by examination, our Workforce Certification and Assessment Center may have just what you need. Click on the links below for more information, or contact Marie Moehnke at (260) 480-2012, e-mail mmoehnke@ivytech.edu.

VUE Testing Center

New technologies are created every day that make individuals more productive and help businesses grow.  Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana offers an authorized VUE testing center for individuals who want affordable training and certification in the popular information technology-related disciplines listed below. For a full listing of exams we administer through VUE, click here: http://www.vue.com/it.

CompTia Certifications: http://www.vue.com/comptia.

Certiport Testing Center

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana offers an authorized Certiport testing center for individuals who want certification in IC3 (Internet and Computing Fundamentals) and MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist).

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
IC3 Certification

CLEP Testing Center

CLEP (College Level Examination Program) provides students with an opportunity to “test out” of a college-level course. By taking the CLEP test, you can receive three or more college credits per exam.
If you are an Ivy Tech student click here: Clep Dantes Crosswalk.

• To see a list of exams you can get credit for at Ivy Tech.
• If you are not an Ivy Tech student, check with your school’s registrar or admissions office to see which CLEP exams your school will accept for credit.

For more information on CLEP or to see exam descriptions, click here. To register for a CLEP test, call or e-mail the one of the CLEP test centers listed below:

ACT Center/WorkKeys Testing Center  

The ACT Center conducts testing for professional licensure and certification.  If you would like to register for a test through the ACT Center, call 1-800-205-6366 or e-mail callctr@act.org.

The ACT Center also offers on-line courses. To see what the ACT center has to offer, click here.

For more information on WorkKeys click here.

Assessments

• Compass – College entrance placement exam required for enrollment in review (ASA) classes or college-level classes. Assesses skills in reading, writing and math. The scores are scaled to Ivy Tech review classes. The test is computerized, is not timed, and adapts to the test candidates’ level of knowledge.

• Asset – Paper/pencil form of the College entrance exam. This is a timed, standardized test. The test measures the student’s skills in reading, writing and math.

• CAAP – CAAP testing has been selected state wide as the outcomes assessment program from ACT that enables postsecondary institutions to assess, evaluate, and enhance their general education programs. The tests are being given twice a year in the capstone classes for each program.

• PSB – College entrance exam for the Respiratory Care program. Computerized, timed test with a passing score putting students into a candidate pool for entrance into the Respiratory programs.

• TEAS – College entrance exam into the Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) and Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN), programs.  Computerized, timed exam with a passing score putting students into a candidate pools. The College has an orientation and study materials available.

• CLEP – College Level Exam Program. Students can take a national test for college credit for classes taught at most universities during a student’s first two years.

Assessments for Business and Industry

Area firms use assessments to determine the skills of their current or potential employees for a wide range of skills, abilities, aptitudes and even attitudes.  Workforce and Economic Development provides assessment services in a professional and confidential manner. Tests are administered in either the traditional paper/pencil method or, in some cases, via the Internet. Test scoring results are accurately determined and reported promptly and confidentially to a firm’s management contact.  The tests are in categories and can be adapted to the needs of a firm, such as customized test batteries.

Some tests include:

• Basic Skills Tests – To identify customer service, clerical and administrative applicants. The tests measure language, math, reasoning and perceptual skills.
• Employee Aptitude – Surveys a broad range of basic aptitudes in a wide variety of tasks.
• Professional Employment Test – To measure verbal comprehension, quantitative problem-solving and reasoning abilities.
• Viewpoints – To measure critical service attitudes and critical work attitudes in a non-intrusive and work-related manner.
• Teamwork – Designed to measure essential knowledge, skills and abilities that are predictive of working effectively in teams.
• Specific Knowledge Tests – To measure specific knowledge for maintenance/industrial occupations. Tests are available to measure a variety of mechanical and electrical skills, such as Blueprint tests or a Machinist Test. 

Assessments may be administered either at a company’s location or at Ivy Tech. In addition to assessing current employees prior to training, employers use these tests to measure the skills of potential new employees in order to help them select the best candidates – a practice that has been shown to cut training costs for new hires substantially. For more information, call Marie Moehnke at (260) 480-2012, mmoehnke@ivytech.edu, or Mike Hathaway at (260) 480-4185, mhathawa@ivytech.edu.

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