Some students struggled with applications or configurations that were unfamiliar to them. But most of the others prevailed, with test results clustering around the 75th percentile. The second-highest scorer was female. Another testing session with 300 students is slated for next month. Warner and the VFIC hope that the test will be widely adopted.
Standardized testing is big business.
Computerized testing allows the exam to be adapted to each student while it is being administered. Results for some ETS computer-based exams are also available just minutes after completing the test. The VFIC IT Certification exam is not up to that speed yet. Students who took the test in November will be getting their results next week. But Griffin believes the IT exam zeroes in on more than just basic software-operation skills and weighs the kinds of intelligence and aptitudes that are universally valuable in the workplace.