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Help Us Blow Out Our Birthday Candle as the ASR Turns One!

While we enjoy our well-earned birthday muffin, we’re going to take a look back at some of the fantastic content we’ve posted over the first year of the new Assessment Services Review. Join us!

Last October, we launched the updated – and free! – Test Administration Handbook. It’s available to all Test Security Agreement Signers upon request.

A new line of Fire promotional tests called the FCO (Fire Company Officer) series was released in November. Previously, we offered the FL 101-EM and FL 102 for promotions to Fire Lieutenant. The new tests were expanded to include alternate forms and we feel the new title better reflects the diverse range of supervisory positions the test is designed to assess. (more…)

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-09-04T09:10:58-04:00September 4th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

Survey: Charging Candidate Fees

IPMA-HR is currently conducting research on agencies that charge candidates a fee for police or fire entry-level selection testing. If you do charge a fee, we would like to ask you to take this short survey about the issue. Thanks for your time. (more…)

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-07-12T15:07:46-04:00July 12th, 2012|Survey|Comments Off

Update to Promotional Test Reading List – July

The reading lists for the PSUP Series of tests has been updated to reflect the release of a new edition of one of the books that appears on the list. Also, the FCO 101 & 102 reading list has been updated to reflect information on a new printing of a book.

The updated reading list table is below:

TYPE	TEST NAME	LAST UPDATED
Police	PSUP 301/302/303	June 2012
	PL 301	May 2012
	PDET 201	Mar 2012
Fire	FCO 101-EM/102-EM	June 2012
Fire	FCO 103/104	Mar 2011
Corrections	CF-FLS 102	Feb 2011
ECC	ECC-FLS 102	Oct 2010

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By Assessment Services Staff|2012-06-27T10:32:27-04:00July 2nd, 2012|Housekeeping|Comments Off

Entry Level Telecommunicator Video Test Update

Due to our commitment to making sure our tests are the absolute best they can be, we’ve released an update to the PST 2.0 Entry Level Telecommunicator Video Test. Because of these changes as well as our move to a new naming scheme, the name of the test has been updated as follows:

PREVIOUS TEST		NEW TEST
PST 2.0		ECC-EL 201

Important Note: Because of the changes to the new printing (Print Date 11-2011 on back) it is NOT advised to mix the new printing with those you might have left over from your previous testing process. Make sure to secure all new DVD, Tests, Scratch Paper booklets, as well as Test Admin Script.

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-05-16T14:01:13-04:00May 17th, 2012|Housekeeping|Comments Off

Update to Promotional Test Reading List

The reading list for the Police Lieutenant Test (PL 301) has been updated to reflect the release of a new edition of one of the books that appears on the list.

The updated reading list table is below:

TYPE	TEST NAME	LAST UPDATED
Police	PSUP 301/302/303	Mar 2012
	PL 301	May 2012
	PDET 201	Mar 2012
Fire	FCO 101-EM/102-EM	Mar 2011
Fire	FCO 103/104	Mar 2011
Corrections	CF-FLS 102	Feb 2011
ECC	ECC-FLS 102	Oct 2010

Request a reading list.

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-05-09T11:18:52-04:00May 1st, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

Update to PSUP Series Reading List

The reading list for the PSUP series of Police Supervisor Tests has been updated to reflect the release of a new edition of one of the books that appears on the list.

The updated reading list table is below:

TYPE	TEST NAME	LAST UPDATED
Police	PSUP 301/302/303	Mar 2012
	PL 301	Jan 2012
	PDET 101	Feb 2012
Fire	FCO 101-EM/102-EM	Mar 2011
Fire	FCO 103/104	Mar 2011
Corrections	CF-FLS 102	Feb 2011
ECC	ECC-FLS 102	Oct 2010

Request a reading list.

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-04-04T15:45:51-04:00April 4th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

Police Detective Test Updated to New Version

As a result of updates to the books that support our police detective tests and our commitment to making sure our tests are the absolute best they can be, we’ve released an update the PDET 101 Police Detective test. Because of these changes, the name of the test has been updated as follows:

PREVIOUS TEST	ALSO KNOWN AS	NEW TEST
PDET 101	PDET 2.1	PDET 201

Five questions were replaced from the PDET 101 to create the new PDET 201. These changes are a result of new editions to books that appear on the test’s reading list. The old questions were no longer supported by the new books, so we replaced them.

It is important to note that all replacement questions were written to assess the same content areas as the original questions and are supported by the books on the current reading list, dated March 2012. (more…)

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-03-29T13:47:46-04:00March 29th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

Update to Promotional Test Reading List

From this point forward, we’ll announce updates to our reading lists for promotional tests as they happen.

In the meantime, however, we’d like to bring to your attention the fact that the reading list for the PDET 101 Police Detective test was updated in February to reflect a new edition of one of the publications.

You can submit a request to receive a reading list on our website.

You’ll find that we’ve also added a table that will show you when the reading list for each test was last updated. As of today, that table looks like this:

Type	Test Name	Last Updated
Police	PSUP 301/302/303	Jan 2012
	PL 301	Jan 2012
	PDET 101	Feb 2012
Fire	FCO 101-EM/102-EM	Mar 2011
Fire	FCO 103/104	Mar 2011
Corrections	CF-FLS 102	Feb 2011
ECC	ECC-FLS 102	Oct 2010

We’ll be announcing future updates here on the Assessment Services Review so be sure and subscribe to Instant Updates on the ASR in the sidebar to the right.

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-03-08T14:03:12-04:00March 8th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

Announcing Updates to the PSUP Series Police Supervisor Tests

As a result of ongoing feedback and our commitment to making sure our tests are the absolute best they can be, we’ve made some minor updates to PSUP series tests. Because of these changes, the names of the tests have been updated as follows:

Previous Test	Also Known As	New Test
PSUP 201	PSUP 1.2	PSUP 301
PSUP 202	PSUP 2.2	PSUP 302
PSUP 203	PSUP 3.2	PSUP 303

All links to the 200 series tests will be updated to the 300 series once available.

Changes to each test are as follows:

PSUP 301 updates four questions from PSUP 201.
PSUP 302 updates three questions from PSUP 202.
PSUP 303 updates two questions from PSUP 203.

It is important to note that all replacement questions were written to assess the same content areas as the original questions and are supported by the books on the current reading list. (more…)

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-03-05T18:22:59-04:00February 29th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

2012 Test Product Catalogs Coming Soon

It’s hard to believe that it has been two years since we last printed our test products and services catalog. We made a decision at that time to switch to a two-year catalog cycle and quite a lot has changed since then!

Fire Catalog Cover-1

Police Catalog Cover-1

Corrections Catalog Cover-1

ECC Catalog Cover-1

Non Public Safety Catalog Cover-1

Besides updating you on the latest assessment product information, you’ll notice that it is no longer just one catalog. Instead, we’ve split it into a unique publication for each of the five different services we support:

Police
Fire
Corrections
Emergency Communications Center
Non-Public Safety (Administrative/Clerical)

By having separate catalogs, we can better align our products with your specific needs. (more…)

By Assessment Services Staff|2012-03-29T12:51:02-04:00February 29th, 2012|Announcements|Comments Off

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