CSU, Chico Opens New Test Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 1999
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
CSU, Chico Opens New Test Center
The California State University, Chico Testing Center has become a Computer-Based Test Center (CBT), offering Educational Testing Service (ETS) tests using Sylvan Technologies Center’s administration software and equipment.
An open house will be held April 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Meriam Library East Wing, room 143.
CSU, Chico was one of 68 sites chosen nationwide from 120 applicants to ETS to create institutional (university-affiliated) CBT Centers. Chico’s test center is one of only three CBT Centers in the CSU System (the others are Cal Poly, SLO and San Diego State.)
The CSU, Chico CBT Center is the only one in the Northern California area north of Sacramento and therefore fulfills a need for CSU, Chico students as well as for students in the surrounding area.
The CBT Center offers the Graduate Record Exam, the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Other tests will be added as the need arises in the area.
The university’s cost of establishing the center here was around $20,000. The costs will be reimbursed by an honoraria paid to the university for each test administered. After the reimbursement, the center will use the honoraria to be self-supporting.
For more information, contact Test Officer and CBT Center Director Judith Zachai at 530-898-6218.
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