The Career Center is a PAN Authorized Testing Center. Located at our convenient midtown New York City location, we offer PAN exams for individuals and the corporate NYC community. We hope that our location, equipment and service make you agree that we are the premier PAN Authorized Testing Vendor in New York.

PAN is the world leader in online test content aggregation. Working with over 50 publishers in North America and Europe, pan distributes over 650 assessment tools in multiple categories. This one-stop assessment catalogue is available to all pan customers. We also have extensive experience in web-enabling custom, proprietary, and multi-language tools developed by our customers.

Certification and Licensure Testing

PAN offers a state-of-the-art, Web-enabled exam delivery platform designed specifically for the reliability and efficiency required with certification and licensure testing. We offer a compelling and cost-effective solution that leverages a combination of the latest secure Web-delivery technologies and encryption methods with best-practices in test center and data management. We provide the highest quality, security, reliability, and convenience for all stakeholders – candidate, sponsor, and organization. pan is a leading provider of proctored, Web-based, high-stakes assessment and certification testing. pan also Web-enables proprietary assessments for federal and state agencies and corporations.

Test Development

pan brings years of experience to examination development and web-enabling examinations. pan develops assessments in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal standards of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychologist (SIOP), and US Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

pan follows all professional standards for test development, including:

• Creation of test definition guides
• Job task analyses
• Test blueprint/outline writing
• Item writing workshops
• Item editing checks
• Beta testing
• Standard setting panels
• Full psychometric services including item analysis and forms equating
• Ongoing health checks for operational testing programs
• Full array of reporting services ranging from item-level analysis to full program overviews

Testing Center Network

pan manages a network of more than 800 certified test centers located throughout the United States and in Canada.  The pan test delivery solution also includes a mobile testing capability.

Fixed Test Centers:

• Provide delivery of secure high-stakes testing services
• Are located in university/college settings, professional training facilities, and retail locations
• Provide access to public transportation and parking
• Provide a quiet, well-lit, distraction free testing environment designed with fairness in mind
• Provide a consistent testing experience for candidates from location to location
• Support test accommodations required by the American with Disabilities Act
• Are supported by fully-trained professional test proctors who are certified every six months
• Receive on-site audits by dedicated pan quality auditors

Mobile Test Solution:

• Offers maximum flexibility for large-scale or remote testing situations
• Includes many of the same attributes listed for our fixed test centers

Web-based examination management system:

• Monitors and ensures strict compliance with proctoring and security protocols
• Enables continuous, real-time quality assurance monitoring
• Provides access to authorized client personnel to permit external monitoring
• Provides multiple layers of security to ensure candidate and exam data remains secure

Exam Administration Guides

pan collaborates with each client to develop a program-specific Proctoring and Technical Specifications Guide that: 

• Incorporates exam administration rules and proctoring protocols
• Is used for proctor training
• Serves as a day-to-day reference on operational policy and procedures

Proctor Selection and Certification

Our test center partners conduct their own proctor hiring and selection process.

• Proctors must pass criminal and employment background checks
• Sign pan non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements
• Proctors must successfully complete pan training and certification for each test they administer
• Re-certify every 6 months

For more information, please visit panPowered.com To Take an Exam at The Career Center: Register by phone at 212-684-5151 Email Us: testing@careercenters.com