About Us
Our Mission
The primary function of the Office of Testing Services is to provide the structure through which the assessment needs of students as individuals and as members of University-defined groups can be met. A secondary function is to provide comprehensive studies of the characteristics of UALR students.
Supervision is given to a wide variety of institutional testing programs, national programs for graduate and professional school admission, and programs of certification boards and licensing agencies.
The office provides comprehensive information about the University Credit By Examination Program. Additionally, students may be referred for special testing by counselors.
Bulletins of information, including test descriptions, registration procedures, and costs, are available for these examinations: ACT, College Level Examination Program, Departmental Examination Program, Graduate Management Admission Test, Graduate Record Examination, Law School Admission Test, Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, Miller Analogies Test, The Praxis Exams, and Excelsior College Examinations.
Additionally, the office oversees the adminisitrations of the Cooperative Institutional Research Project, the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement. These national research projects provide data pertaining to UALR students.