Academic Partner and Pearson VUE Testing Center High School Seeking to Proctor Exams

[MarkGrohman]

Our high school (and our district) started providing Pearson VUE IT Specialist and Microsoft Office Specialist certification exams to our students this school year through Certiport. We are a CompTIA Academic Partner.

How do we gain certification to also administer CompTIA exams to our students? The priority is ITF+, A+, Net+, and then Sec+.

It would also be nice to be able to administer exams to our teachers - especially if they have vouchers from various TTT series.

 

[Jarrel]

The administration of a CompTIA exam is with either Pearson or Certiport.
For which case, to be an exam Pearson test center, kindly refer to this link: https://home.pearsonvue.com/Test-centers/Become-a-test-center.aspx
As for Certiport, kindly refer to this link: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/Get-started.aspx

Academic partnership is with the delivery of contents.
Exam delivery is with exam partners.

 

[Rick Butler]

Our high school (and our district) started providing Pearson VUE IT Specialist and Microsoft Office Specialist certification exams to our students this school year through Certiport. We are a CompTIA Academic Partner.

How do we gain certification to also administer CompTIA exams to our students? The priority is ITF+, A+, Net+, and then Sec+.

It would also be nice to be able to administer exams to our teachers - especially if they have vouchers from various TTT series.

Hey Mark:

I've had the experience of setting up a testing center from scratch. Get with me offline (shoot me a DM) , we can do a VTC call and I can walk you through some of the particulars. PearsonVUE does have some requirements that may be "gotchas" if you're not careful. But it's not hard to make work, overall.

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[Brian Ford]

Hey Mark:

I've had the experience of setting up a testing center from scratch. Get with me offline (shoot me a DM) , we can do a VTC call and I can walk you through some of the particulars. PearsonVUE does have some requirements that may be "gotchas" if you're not careful. But it's not hard to make work, overall.

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I don't know if I'd agree with "it's not hard to make work, overall.". The biggest 'gotcha' I've encountered recently is that Pearson rule that Instructors who teach a class cannot proctor exams for their own students. I've heard of that being interpreted different ways at different test centers. My own interpretation is that I'm an instructor and I don't proctor. There are other rules. There are often very anxious people under much stress taking exams. There are no easy jobs in a testing center.

 

[Rick Butler]

The biggest 'gotcha' I've encountered recently is that Pearson rule that Instructors who teach a class cannot proctor exams for their own students.

Ahh, yes. Vested interest. Teachers or anyone who is candidating for exams can't serve as a proctor. I always thought that went without saying.

We also offer American Medical Technology (AMT) exams in our center for our med students, so we had the idea that the computer people would proctor medical, medical proctors computers. I always thought that to be a fair exchange. We ended up having our Learning Resources supervisor, who had no vested interest in either AMT or CompTIA basically do all the proctoring.

The biggest challenge we had was that we had to ensure the administrative computer that controls the test center had to be in a secured location, away from the test center. So I built a mobile, locking enclosure for that machine. Check in would be done in our LRC office, which would also be locked. Proctor could secure everything and move to the test center. The center is also camera'ed.

The test room has to be spartan, windows covered, all that (we have eight stations). Pearson was very helpful in getting us set up.

Overall, our center is private, only for our students. I cannot speak to their stress. But we've had a great experience with it - and our center has been active for six years now.

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