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Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Certiport established a partnership to create a solution leveraging their assessment and certification programs around digital literacy and critical thinking with regard to information and communications technologies (ICTs).
Under the agreement, Certiport and ETS will take the first steps toward jointly marketing their flagship products—Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³®) and ETS's ICT Literacy™ Workforce Assessment—to educational, government and corporate customers.
Bundled products resulting from this collaboration can develop and validate learners and employees' basic computer hardware, software and Internet knowledge and skills using Certiport IC³, and then measure their ability to apply critical thinking to use those skills in actual workplace situations using the ETS's ICT Literacy Workforce Assessment.
The two organizations began exploring common interests in November 2007. A critical-thinking component to the IC³ certification will become available with the Global Standard 3 launch in 2009.