August 20, 2002. Carmel, IN – Today Performance Assessment Network, Inc. (pan) -
www.pantesting.com - announced that it is
offering an extensive catalogue of automated, web-based tests for psychologists.
pan will be showcasing the tests at the American Psychological
Association 110th Annual Convention at Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside Center
August 22-25.
"The pan catalogue is distinctive in offering a wide range of tests
and assessments for psychologists in clinical, counseling, industrial,
consulting, school, and research environments," according to David T.
Pfenninger, Ph.D., pan founder and CEO. "This year at APA we are drawing
attention to some very timely instruments, namely, measures of reliability and
integrity for job screening, aggressive tendencies, and occupational stress."
pan's Chief Science Officer Reid E. Klion, Ph.D. elaborates:
"Organizations are increasingly concerned about the potentially problematic
behavior of their employees, with psychologists often being involved in both
assessing and intervening in these situations. pan provides a broad range
of test content in an easy-to-use web-based assessment management system.
Practitioners now have a single source for dozens of products from the top test
publishers that frees them from much of the administrative burden of managing
the assessment process."
Some of the products featured include the Conditional Reasoning Test of
Aggression, licensed from The Psychological Corporation. The test is used to
screen for attitudinal tendencies correlating with impulsive and aggressive
behavior and problems with organizational citizenship performance. The Job
Stress Inventory (Alliant International University) assesses perceived levels
and sources of stress within organizations, such as physical demands/danger,
time pressure, red tape, lack of supervisor skill, and lack of control.
Abbreviated Reid Report (Reid London House), Applicant Risk Profiler (G. Neil),
and SureHire (PSI) are among the extensive pan roster of pre-employment
reliability and integrity tests used by psychologists to evaluate risk for
absenteeism, theft, policy non-compliance, and drug or alcohol-related work
problems. Personality Research Form (Sigma), New Workforce Inventory (Kingwood
Group), and Work Personality Index (Psychometrics) are examples of validated
personality factor measures used to evaluate the person-job-culture goodness of
fit. Employee Relationship Report (Walker Information) is a widely used
organizational survey measuring employee loyalty, commitment, and reasons for
job turnover.
The pan team is confident that their online testing model has set the
industry standard: "When we first invented online testing in the mid-90’s,
pan had some difficulty in attracting psychologist users," Pfenninger
observes. "But now there is a sense of inevitability about e-testing and
significant market adoption taking place. The youthful demographic profile and
fluid practice patterns of the contemporary psychologist, combined with the
significant cost and time savings and demonstrated validity and security models,
guarantee the long-term viability of this new delivery medium."
"Based upon our experience in the area of web-based assessment, we have
developed a number of innovations to facilitate the testing process," notes
Klion. "For example, we can create batteries composed of tests from multiple
publishers and are also able to deliver accurately timed tests over the
Internet. pan manages proctored as well as remote assessment sessions and
we have integrated our system with several of our clients’ back office and data
processing applications. As a result, we have the competence and experience to
manage a broad range of online assessment solutions."
pan currently features a growing catalogue of over 220 fully
automated, web-based tests and assessments in twelve categories from 45 test
developers, making it the only multi-vendor distributor of online tests in the
industry. pan has received industrial security clearance from the U.S.
government to handle Confidential Level data, utilizes the latest security and
encryption technology. Through its pan power "private label" programs,
pan is the web assessment services and solutions provider for hundreds of
international customers, including Canadian Public Service Commission, Society
for Human Resource Management, Target Corp., Procter & Gamble,
Georgia-Pacific, American United Life, Eli Lilly & Co., Motorola, ISG, and
U.S. Steel. pan is based in Carmel, IN with technology operations in
Toronto and Houston.
