COMPTIA NAMES PROCERT LABS AS OFFICIAL REVIEW BODY FOR NEW AUTHORIZED CURRICULUM PROGRAM.

ProCert Labs to provide quality assurance testing for CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum program.

ProCert Labs, the quality assurance standard for professional certification courseware, today announced a formalized agreement with the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) to provide quality assurance testing of courseware products for the CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) program.

ProCert Labs provided input to the development of the program and demonstrated success, acceptance and support in pre-launch beta exposure last month. Vendors who participated in the CAQC program with ProCert Labs during the beta period include ComputerPrep, Course Technology, ElementK, GTS Learning, McGraw Hill, SmartForce, TestOut, and Wave Technology. “We are impressed with the level of support, capability and professional quality of ProCert Labs and are excited to have their involvement in our program” said Jonathan Thatcher, program manager for CompTIA.

“We are proud to support CompTIA in their effort to identify quality courseware to a growing number of certification candidates.” Said Paul Hoffmann, vice president of operations for ProCert Labs. “It is our intention to facilitate CompTIA’s success by providing consistently reliable courseware reviews and by helping to promote products that meet expectations of quality.”

The CAQC program is a quality review initiative for IT training material that uses quality standards set by CompTIA and a consortium of leading vendors. CompTIA is placing more emphasis on quality training materials to better enable students in pursuit of IT certification and skilled job roles. In addition, the CAQC program serves as a requirement for other CompTIA and IT industry programs.

ProCert Labs is authorized to review print, CBT, Web-based, instructor-led, video and even PDA-based courseware for CAQC. In recognition of CompTIA’s global reach, ProCert Labs conducts reviews in multiple languages including English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Korean, Spanish and Japanese. Courseware publishers wishing to participate in the CAQC program can submit courseware to ProCert Labs for testing effective immediately.

ProCert Labs is a team of qualified instructional design experts with extensive experience in designing IT-related courseware. ProCert Labs does not publish courseware or compete with courseware vendors, and uses specialized Web-based tools to manage and conduct secure and confidential testing. Hoffmann explained, “Testing evaluations conducted by ProCert Labs are non-biased, vendor-independent assessments of quality. We base our reviews on a standardized testing process that is applied in a consistent methodology to ensure fair and accurate results.”

ProCert labs is a cornerstone service of ProCert Communications’ ongoing effort to raise awareness of Information Technology and to improve perceptions of IT credentials and their value in the job market. For more information about ProCert Labs, visit www.procertlabs.com .

About ProCert Labs
ProCert Labs is the quality assurance standard for professional certification courseware. A division of ProCert Communications, ProCert Labs is an independent quality assurance laboratory measuring the strength of the relationship between third-party courseware and leading IT certifications and job roles. Using an open standard methodology based on modern instructional design theory, ProCert Labs measures the level of exam objectives correlation, the instructional design integrity and compares courseware to 14 key elements in a benchmark comparison. Test results are delivered to vendors in a confidential report. Courseware that achieves a passing grade is awarded the ProCert Labs Tested service mark (a symbol of quality that distinguishes courseware to consumers), and is eligible for other third-party service marks.

About CompTIA
CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, is a not-for-profit trade association providing the technology community standards in the areas of Internet-enabled service provision, e-commerce, vendor-neutral technical certification, CRM, public policy, workforce development and training. Representing the converging computing and communications market, CompTIA has more than 8,000 corporate members in 60 countries, and thousands of individual professional members. Almost half a million individuals worldwide have earned CompTIA certifications. More information is available at www.comptia.org and www.xspertise.com

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