NACTEI Sponsors

AZTECH Educational Resources is passionate about education and that enthusaism is projected through their offerings of exceptional educational programs.

Our company's mission is to enhance the learning environment by offering curriculum that takes the intimidation and confusion out of learning for both students and instructors.

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The Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS) (formerly known as VTECS) is nationally recognized for its expertise in developing standards and assessment systems based on a valid occupational analysis process. The organization has a thirty-eight year history of operating as a consortium of states where members pool their human, material, and financial resources to develop competency-based career and technical education products that are validated by business, industry, and labor.

CTECS has had the pleasure of working with numerous federal and state agencies to promote the systematic research, development, and implementation of competency based career-technical education and training, and assessment.

For more inforation visit, www.ctecs.org

Our Mission
To raise student aspirations and to provide career options to students and adults through self-assessment and education.

Our Goal
� Guide students and parents through successful 8th grade and post-high school transitions
� Increase retention and graduation rates
� Provide career planning, guidance, and development resources to last a lifetime

Founded in 1997 with a vision to provide students with the tools and resources they needed to be successful in school and the world of work, Kuder, Inc., has grown to become the premier provider of Internet-based educational and career planning solutions for citizens of all ages. Backed by 70 years of distinguished and innovative research, we are driven by a passion to provide our customers with the best, most effective research-based assessments, career guidance, and educational planning tools and resources possible.

Since the creation of the paper assessments by Dr. Frederic Kuder in 1938, the Kuder family of products has grown and developed in direct response to today's changing needs in education, business and industry, and technology.
In addition to individual assessments and statewide programs, thousands of schools, agencies, and businesses in the United States have adopted the Kuder Career Planning System and supporting curricula.

For more inforation visit, www.kuder.com

NOCTI is a leading provider of high-quality occupational competency assessment products and services to secondary and post-secondary educational institutions in the United States and around the world. The Whitener Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of NOCTI was created in 1999 to serve the special needs of our business and industry clients.

With over three decades of experience in designing and developing occupational competency assessments, NOCTI provides over 170 standardized technical assessments in a variety of occupational fields. NOCTI's services include job and task analysis, test development, written and performance assessments delivered in both online and hard copy format, scoring services, cut score workshops and specialized reporting. These products and services are built upon nationally validated, workplace-based standards.

NOCTI, a not-for-profit corporation, is governed by a Consortium of States consisting of representatives from each of the fifty states and U.S. territories. Leadership and administrative control is vested in a twelve-member Board of Trustees with expertise in career and technical education and a strong commitment to improving America's workforce.

Please take a moment to learn more about NOCTI by exploring the topics listed in this section.

For more inforation visit, www.nocti.org

Our Vision
The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) is the primary agent for generating scientifically based knowledge, dissemination, professional development, and technical assistance to improve career and technical education (CTE) in the United States.

Our Mission
The NRCCTE works to improve the engagement, achievement, and transition of high school and postsecondary CTE students through technical assistance to states, professional development for CTE practitioners, and dissemination of knowledge derived from scientifically based research.

To this end, the Center carries out scientifically based research and evaluation:

A. of methods to improve the:

1. integration of career-technical and academic instruction;

2. integration of secondary and postsecondary CTE;

3. use of education technology and distance learning;

4. transition of CTE participants to high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand occupations; and

5. use of state-adjusted levels of performance to improve CTE programs and student achievement.

B. to identify the academic knowledge and career-technical skills required for employment or participation in postsecondary education

C. to increase the effectiveness of CTE programs that are integrated with coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards

D. to improve the preparation and professional development of CTE teachers, faculty, and administrators in order to improve student learning

For more inforation visit, www.nrccte.org/

The Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS) (formerly known as VTECS) is nationally recognized for its expertise in developing standards and assessment systems based on a valid occupational analysis process. The organization has a thirty-eight year history of operating as a consortium of states where members pool their human, material, and financial resources to develop competency-based career and technical education products that are validated by business, industry, and labor.

CTECS has had the pleasure of working with numerous federal and state agencies to promote the systematic research, development, and implementation of competency based career-technical education and training, and assessment.

For more inforation visit, www.ctecs.org