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PRESS RELEASES
Bob Guerin
Vice President Strategic Initiatives
Pacific Metrics Corporation
585 Cannery Row, Suite 201
Monterey, CA 93940
(831) 646-6405
Pacific Metrics Corporation Announces Strategic Relationship with Content Analyst Company, LLC
Technology solution supports student learning
Monterey, CA, April 3, 2006–Pacific Metrics Corporation, a leading provider of assessment solutions, today announced a new strategic alliance with Content Analyst Company, LLC, of Reston, Virginia. In establishing this relationship, Pacific Metrics will enhance its ORCA™ family of online assessment products and student achievement systems. The alliance with Content Analyst Company enables Pacific Metrics to offer highly accurate Online Essay Scoring solutions to meet the needs of states, districts, schools, and individual classrooms.
“Pacific Metrics offers a comprehensive Web-based student achievement solution that can deliver, score, analyze and report student data,” said Howard Mitzel, president of Pacific Metrics. “The Content Analyst™ powered modules make the ORCA system more robust and give educators additional online assessment options to utilize high-quality technology at the state, district, school or classroom level.”
“The Pacific Metrics/Content Analyst alliance launches a shared vision of supporting student learning at the classroom level,” said Robert Liscouski, President/CEO, of Content Analyst. “The Content Analyst solution enhances the high-quality assessments currently being delivered by Pacific Metrics to the U.S., K-12 education market.”
The enhanced ORCA system now includes new Content Analyst-powered modules that provide easy-to-use online, custom solutions for automated essay scoring on all student groups at each educational level—state, district, school, and classroom.
About Pacific Metrics
As a leader in the assessment industry, Pacific Metrics offers a broad range of assessments, software and services. Founded in 2000, the company’s mission is to bring lasting improvements to the assessment and learning environment through the thoughtful use of technology. The company has achieved recognition for its technical work and for being a leading developer of innovative, customized, Web-based formative assessments, and online item management and reporting services—all services vital to the needs of today’s high-profile assessment environment. Pacific Metrics also delivers specialized psychometric, software, and content development services to state departments of education and organizations that develop, administer, and score large-scale assessments. Additional information is available at www.pacificmetrics.com.
About Content Analyst Company
Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Content Analyst™ provides powerful and proven Text Analytics tools and technology that automates the analysis of unstructured data. Based on extensions and improvements in the company’s patented Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) technology, Content Analyst technology exponentially reduces the time needed to discern relevant information from large volumes of documents and data for organizations in a variety of industries.
Content Analyst technology delivers value anywhere employees are required to interact with large amounts of data. To learn more about how Content Analyst technology can help your organization improve productivity and speed the discovery, analysis and delivery of accurate, actionable information, contact us at 1-888-349-9442 or email info@contentanalyst.com.
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