Tata Interactive Systems and Teckchek Enter Content Development and Co-Marketing Partnership

The assessment component is key to the success of the basic instructional model of “assess, teach, practice, and evaluate.” Unlike traditional assessment approaches, adaptive assessments adjust the degree of difficulty to the skills of the learner. Questions get harder or easier based upon answers to the previous questions. Therefore, no time is wasted giving beginners advanced questions or asking senior professionals questions that are too basic. In an adaptive assessment, each question is assigned a weight representative of difficulty level. Thus, adaptive tests do not measure how many questions were answered correctly; instead, they measure the difficulty level of the questions that were answered correctly.

In the e-learning market, clients are increasingly looking to vendors who can be full-service providers. To this end, this partnership is likely to strengthen both parties since they can harness each other’s strengths and approach clients with an integrated offering. “We believe clients would prefer to have one integrated vendor who can provide cut to cloth services, right from training audits and training needs assessment through to adaptive assessments. When we add our adaptive assessment tools to TIS’s development skills, expertise, and market presence, we have the complete recipe for success,” said William Mundell, Chairman, TeckChek.

Manoj Kutty, Head of TIS’ U.S. Operations, added, “We see that adaptive assessments are becoming increasingly critical in corporate learning and development. Not only does it help in assessing employee learning, it also enables employee fitness in appropriate roles. In our analysis, TechChek has a powerful adaptive assessment methodology and our partnership will enable us to offer a full range of product solutions to our clients.”

About TIS
TIS is one of the world’s largest developers of custom e-learning solutions, and their service bouquet includes training audits, training needs analysis, e-learning solution design, and integrated solution development, including assessments. With a multi-disciplinary team of more than 700 developers, TIS has developed e-learning solutions for more than 200 clients, clients such as Citibank, Colgate-Palmolive, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Procter & Gamble, Qwest, UNICEF, and the University of Phoenix. The company is assessed at Level 5 both on the SEI-CMM and on the SEI- PCMM frameworks.
TIS is part of the Tata Group, one of India’s largest business houses, with more than 80 companies in diversified sectors such as steel, automobiles, cement, telecom and IT.

About TeckChek
TeckChek has been a pioneer in the development of assessment products, having been in the business for more than 17 years. With offices in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Africa, TeckChek offers more than 170 computer-based, adaptive exams in a wide array of advanced to identify the most technically qualified candidates and verify the technical skills of IT staffing consultants. Some of TechChek’s key clients include Wal-Mart, Bank of America, Avon, Accenture, GlaxoSmithKline and Metlife.

TeckChek is a subsidiary of Knowledge Universe, which operates, incubates, and invests in leading web-based companies that build human capital by helping individuals and businesses realize their full potential.