News and updates for January 2023:

• Check out our video on the evolution of the GED! We’re excited to share GED history with you. This video highlights just how much the GED program has changed since 1942.
• We would love to hear about your experience with GED Testing Service. In the bottom left section of the GED administrator and educator page, there is a green box where we invite you to tell us about your GED experience.
• Tired of setting up email accounts just to demonstrate to students how to set up a GED.com student account? Or, want to poke around and see what the account process is like from time to time – or with different types of students? If so, you’re in luck! We encourage you to use our GED demo student login site. No real email address is needed to walk students through the steps of creating an account and signing up with GED. Please note: when you use the link it may tell you there isn’t a certificate. Don’t worry – press forward as it is completely safe! This site sits on a staging server not intended for the general public.

News and updates for January 2023:

• Check out our video on the evolution of the GED! We’re excited to share GED history with you. This video highlights just how much the GED program has changed since 1942.
• We would love to hear about your experience with GED Testing Service. In the bottom left section of the GED administrator and educator page, there is a green box where we invite you to tell us about your GED experience.
• Tired of setting up email accounts just to demonstrate to students how to set up a GED.com student account? Or, want to poke around and see what the account process is like from time to time – or with different types of students? If so, you’re in luck! We encourage you to use our GED demo student login site. No real email address is needed to walk students through the steps of creating an account and signing up with GED. Please note: when you use the link it may tell you there isn’t a certificate. Don’t worry – press forward as it is completely safe! This site sits on a staging server not intended for the general public.

News and updates for January 2023:

• Check out our video on the evolution of the GED! We’re excited to share GED history with you. This video highlights just how much the GED program has changed since 1942.
• We would love to hear about your experience with GED Testing Service. In the bottom left section of the GED administrator and educator page, there is a green box where we invite you to tell us about your GED experience.
• Tired of setting up email accounts just to demonstrate to students how to set up a GED.com student account? Or, want to poke around and see what the account process is like from time to time – or with different types of students? If so, you’re in luck! We encourage you to use our GED demo student login site. No real email address is needed to walk students through the steps of creating an account and signing up with GED. Please note: when you use the link it may tell you there isn’t a certificate. Don’t worry – press forward as it is completely safe! This site sits on a staging server not intended for the general public.

The stage is set for this year’s conference!

Our annual conference is just six months away— July 18-20 in New York City. We will provide the latest information about the GED program as well as host panels, professional development workshops and sessions covering topics such as marketing, corrections, student support, test administration, and much more!

The annual conference is an opportunity for GED Testing Service to share insights on the best way to prepare students for the tests straight from the creators of the test. It’s also a great opportunity to network and share ideas with your peers from across the country. In addition, each year, GED Testing Service recognizes several recent GED graduates for outstanding achievements with the GED Grad of the Year awards.

Register now for the best price. Take advantage of discounted pricing through March 31st for registration at $475. On April 1st, the rate goes up to $535.

See you in NYC!

GED Exam Delivery Manager Natalie Cummins walks us through new ways we are supporting GED Test Centers.

Greetings! I’m thrilled to introduce myself to the wider GED field. My name is Natalie Cummins and I’m the new Exam Delivery Manager for the GED test in the United States. Prior to joining Pearson VUE, you may have known me in my previous roles as the GED Administrator for Kentucky, a state regional associate for Kentucky Adult Education, or as a local adult education teacher.

Working on the Pearson VUE side, my responsibility is to support all aspects of the implementation and maintenance of GED Test Centers. Due to the importance of the GED exam, Pearson VUE created this role last year to recognize and resolve GED Test Center capacity and operation issues. While I primarily support the GED State Relationship Managers as they assist states on a more localized level, I am also here to answer your questions about creating a GED Test Center and to facilitate the resolution of questions from existing test centers.

For the coming year, I’m looking at various new ways to support incoming and existing GED test centers. Here are some items on my list:

• Leading multiple sessions at the GED Testing Service Annual Conference this July
• Improving communications with GED Test Centers to provide education for solving commonplace issues
• Hosting ad hoc webinars to states and prospective test centers on the approval process with clear guidance on common pitfalls and delay points they can avoid when applying

In addition to these forward-facing activities, I’m working within Pearson itself to support the various internal teams that collectively serve GED Test Centers. While there’s always a lot to be done, I’m excited to be able to translate my 25+ years in adult education to a new, national venue while still supporting the incredibly important work performed by the adult education and testing field. If you have questions or comments, feel free to contact me at Natalie.Cummins@pearson.com.

GED Voucher Orders will be routed to our new platform, GED Marketplace.

Beginning January 1, 2023, all GED Voucher Orders began being routed to our new platform, GED Marketplace. Users will find their experience with Marketplace to be fast, friendly, and simplified. To purchase GED Vouchers, please go to https://shop.gedmarketplace.com.

Questions? Please see these FAQs at Voucher Store FAQ (gedmarketplace.com)

Want the most up-to-date information about how and where you or your program can purchase vouchers? Check out this quick reference guide.

Vice President CT Turner shares GEDTS goals for 2023.

With 2022 coming to an end, I wanted to give you all a peek at some of the areas the SRM, Operations and Assessment Teams will be focusing on in 2023. We’re excited to continue evolving the GED program to advance economic opportunities for our learners and the generations to come.

Our teams will continue to collaborate closely with technology and marketing to improve the student journey through personalization, career pathways assistance, and nudges. And we’re excited to work with the team members across the organization on the much-anticipated GED app that is tentatively slated for beta release around the time of the Conference.

Some other team-specific areas of focus for the year include, but are not limited to:

• Continue to strengthen communications and feedback with educators and other direct GED stakeholders, including through InSession, Tuesdays for Teachers, GED Conference sessions, Program Directors Work Group, and more.
• Work to build out more national career pathways programs for GED students, and state-specific pilots in infrastructure, technology, and green energy.
• Additional work on duplicate accounts. We’ve made a lot of progress on this front last year, helping many students credential after merging accounts. We’ll continue that progress this year.
• Safeguarding the integrity of the GED and refining test-taker support around the assessment. We’re researching and testing ways to help learners turn score report feedback into study plans, or how to encourage them to test after earning a “green” GED Ready score.
• Growth on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion objectives and partnerships
• Building awareness and adoption of the GED Option program. This is a dropout recovery program implemented in high schools.
• Grow adoption and number of employers participating in GEDWorks.
• Assist States and Departments of Corrections with HiSET delivery issues since purchase by PSI.
• Work with our partner Credly on badging skills for GED testers, graduates, and alumni to help connect them with employers.

We have a full year ahead with lots of momentum and many plans. We know you all do as well, and we are thankful for your dedication and commitment to adult learners and continued enhancements of the GED program. We look forward to seeing all the progress we make together, and as always seeing the stories of new graduates in 2023!