Spring IT Training To offer TeckChek Online Assessment

Spring IT Training, the technical and end-user IT training company has announced that it has extended it's relationship with online assessment providers TeckChek.

Following the success of the online assessment tool with its parent company, Spring Group, and the desire for more blended training solutions, Spring will offer TeckChek's assessments to all of their training customers immediately.

With the growth in the e-Learning arena, and the increasing focus on return-on-investment (ROI), TeckChek's range of more than 150 separate tests covers all aspects of IT technical training.

Spring's new contract with TeckChek will provide its customers with a benchmark against which they will be able to measure the effectiveness of training programmes, calculate ROI and track their workforce development. The courses will be easily accessible for Spring customers, who will be given a simple username and password enabling them to do the tests online at a time convenient to themselves.

Individual employees will be able to monitor their own progress, and highlight specific training needs. TeckChek tests are highly regarded within the industry for their objective, generic and competency-based approach to training, and are one of the most rigorous testing tools available.

By using these online assessments, organisations are able to create a bench-mark within their organisation against which all employees are tested.

Spring's e-Learning Director, Deborah Taylor-Young says "We are always looking for new ways to meet our customers training needs, and the TeckChek products will be particularly useful for our training customers. For clients who have not invested in an existing e-learning infrastructure TeckChek assessments will offer a way to track and assess their employees' progress as part of a continuous development programme.'

'The cost effectiveness of TeckChek's assessments provides our customers with a flexible and quality assured means of conducting ongoing testing and workforce development. Continued tracking and assessment allows business to effectively identify return on IT training investment, workforce development and training requirements."

David Beer, Director, TeckChek adds "Spring Group is one of our biggest customers in the recruitment sector and our range of IT skills tests have been a valuable resource for several years. It is on the strength of this tried and tested relationship that Spring Group's IT training division integrated our IT skills tests into their training portfolio, enabling Spring to offer high standard online training and assessment throughout its business."

December 17th, 2001