NJIT Newsroom tagged with "testing" Updates about what's happening on and around the NJIT campus. http://www.njit.edu/news en-us 2013 New Jersey Institute of Technology http://www.njit.edu/uicomponents/images/sub_logo.gif New Jersey Institute of Technology http://www.njit.edu 60 NJIT Is Invited To Join ETS National Advisory Committee http://www.njit.edu/news/2006/2006-313.php http://www.njit.edu/news/2006/2006-313.phpWed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been asked by Educational Testing Service (ETS) to join its prestigious advisory committee focused on literacy assessment.   The committee was established in 2003 to ensure the test’s initial development.  Now that the test is available, the committee serves in a consultative role.

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]]> NJIT Joins ETS’s ICT Literacy Assessment National Advisory Committee http://www.njit.edu/news/2006/2006-305.php http://www.njit.edu/news/2006/2006-305.phpTue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400 NJIT was recently named as one of six new higher education institutions to join the National Advisory Committee for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment, which is used voluntarily by higher education institutions and high schools that want to assess the ICT skills of its students.

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]]> Shots Fired at Bayonne Range Prove Smart Gun Technology Works http://www.njit.edu/news/2004/2004-274.php http://www.njit.edu/news/2004/2004-274.phpThu, 16 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0500 Sixty people crowded last week into a small room at the Bayonne police firing range to witness smart gun technology.  Donald B. Sebastian, senior vice president of research and development at NJIT, stood near an oversized screen displaying a real-time video of an NJIT policeman shooting an experimental handgun in an adjacent indoor range. Twenty electronic computerized sensors embedded in the gun’s grip distinguished known from unknown users. “We’ve only just begun and we’re pleased to say that we’re getting 90 percent reliability when scanning users,” said Sebastian.

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]]> Shots Fired at Bayonne Range Prove Smart Gun Technology Works http://www.njit.edu/news/2004/2004-272.php http://www.njit.edu/news/2004/2004-272.phpWed, 15 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0500 Sixty people crowded last week into a small room at the Bayonne police firing range to witness smart gun technology.  Donald H. Sebastian, senior vice president of research and development at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), stood near an oversized screen displaying a real-time video of an NJIT policeman shooting an experimental handgun in an adjacent indoor range. Although there was no applause as shots rang out, the action demonstrated that smart gun knew friend from foe.

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