Press Releases and News

2008

New Speech and Language Assessment First to Measure Impact of Stuttering on a Person’s Daily Life: OASES Joins Pearson’s Comprehensive Offering of Speech and Language Assessments—03/25/08

Response to The Wall Street Journal story on the FBS (Symptom Validity) Scale—03/07/08

2007

Second Edition of The Minnesota Report™: Adolescent Interpretive System Incorporates Current Research for an Up-to-Date Interpretation—06/12/07

FBS (Symptom Validity) Scale Added to MMPI-2™ Standard Scoring Materials: Scale helps identify non-credible symptom reporting—01/11/07

2006

Pearson Assessments Offers a New Assessment for College Counselors to Evaluate Problems Typical of College Students, MCCI™ (Millon™ College Counseling Inventory)—09/26/06

Pearson Assessments New Distributor of Sigma Survey for Police Officers Test (SSPO)—08/28/06

Pearson Assessments New Distributor of Sigma Survey for Security Officers Test (SSSO)—08/28/06

Significant New Enhancement Strengthens MACI™ Test: New Grossman Facet Scales provide greater interpretive depth to the personality scales of the MACI assessment —07/18/06

New MBMD™ Bariatric Surgical Normative Data Significantly Enhance Psychological Assessment—06/28/06

Florida Department of Education Awards Juvenile Justice Education Assessments Contract to Pearson Assessments - BASI™ Assessment—04/19/06

Pearson Combines Several Businesses into Pearson Assessments—03/06/06

2005

Revision to The Minnesota Report™ for the MMPI-2™ Test Now Available—10/04/05

Q Local™ Software Released by Pearson Assessments—8/18/05

Pearson Assessments Offers Training and CE Credits Via Home Study—8/10/05

Pearson to Acquire AGS, Targets growth in funding for at-risk students; strengthens position in school testing and publishing—6/23/05

Comprehensive Assessment Instrument for Preteens Now Available, New Millon™ Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory (M-PACI™)—4/7/05

Article Published in Government Security News: Psychological Assessments Can Lead to Better Hiring—2/7/05

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2004

New BASI™ Academic Achievement Test Series Offers Contemporary Norms and Cost Efficiencies—8/3/04

Recent Innovations in MMPI-2™ Test Interpretation to be Presented to Correctional Mental Health Staff—2/25/04

Test Author Achilles Bardos, PhD, to Present at National Symposium on Correctional Mental Health, Speaker to address achievement and cognitive skills screening appropriate for prison populations—2/25/04

Personality Test Aids Corrections Officers in Daily Management of Offenders, Colorado program to be presented at April workshop—2/25/04

The Millon™ Index of Personality Styles Revised (MIPS® Revised) Test Now Available from Pearson Assessments—1/8/04

2003

Psychological Test Helps Anticipate Offenders’ Needs and Behaviors MCMI-III™ Corrections Report Enhancements Developed from Study Involving more than 10,000 Inmates—10/23/03

Test Author Achilles Bardos, PhD, to Present at National Symposium on Correctional Health Care—8/28/03

Noted Expert on Violence and Aggression Addresses Corrections Professionals—8/28/03

New BHI™ 2 Assessment for use with Medical Patients Now Available—8/22/03

The University of Minnesota Press and Pearson Assessments Introduce the MMPI-2™ Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales: Nine new scales represent the first variant version of the Clinical Scales—1/29/03

2002

What's New in 2002?

How to Put Psychological Tests to Work During the Hiring Process, October 4 workshop will help law enforcement professionals understand the latest trends and legal issues—8/21/02

9th Annual Millon™ Clinical Inventories Conference to be held October 18–20 in Minneapolis—8/20/02

New BBHI™ 2 Psychological Assessment Helps Make the Mind/Body Connection—8/15/02

Workshop: Learn About Effective and Responsible Use of Psychological Tests in Pre-Employment Selection—3/18/02

2001

University of Minnesota Press & Pearson Assessments Announce Newest Update to the MMPI-2™ Revised Personnel System: Comparisons for Public Safety Occupations—12/31/01
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University of Minnesota Press and Pearson Assessments Announce Revisions to the MMPI-2 Test Materials and Reports—5/17/01

2000

GAMA^® Research Results Presentation at National Correctional Health Care Conference—08/03/00

Paul Retzlaff, PhD, to Present Research Results of Prisoner Personality Types—07/28/00

Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic (MBMD™) Assessment: NCS Announces Newest Addition to Millon Clinical Inventories—07/28/00

Results of Research Conducted with Inmates and the MCMI-III™ Test to be Presented at National Conference—07/17/00

NCS Products Help Clinicians Make Better Decisions and Enhance Patient Care—02/05/00

NCS Publishes Pain Management Newsletter—01/10/00

Pearson Assessments Instruments Help Prevent Adolescent Suicide—01/05/00

1999

NCS Announces New MMPI-2™ Criminal Justice and Corrections Report—11/10/99

Assessments from NCS Can Help Physicians Treat Chronic Pain—09/27/99

Psychologists Turn to NCS to Increase their Credibility in the Courtroom—09/27/99

SCL-90-R^® Instrument Screens Patients for Psychological Distress—09/27/99

Psychological Assessments from NCS Offer Assistance to Corrections Administrators—09/27/99

BHI Test Helps Identify Roadblocks to Recovery for Orthopedic Patients—09/27/99

P-3^® Test Helps Identify Solutions for Chronic Pain Patients—09/27/99

Psychologists Turn to NCS to Increase their Credibility in the Courtroom—08/20/99

1998

Discontinuation of the Original MMPI^®—08/15/98

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