Questar Assessment, Inc.

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.tasa.com
Employees: 142
Employee growth: (11.3%)

Read the passage below and respond to the questions that follow on your answer sheet. Questar Assessment (formerly Touchstone Applied Science Associates) provides educational assessment products and services to elementary and secondary schools (grades K through 12) in the US and Canada. Its Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) tests measure reading comprehension. Its Maculaitis Test (MAC II) is an English assessment and evaluation program. The company's BETA (Beck Evaluation & Testing Associates) subsidiary designs tests and evaluates assessment needs for schools and textbook publishers. Cahill, Warnock Strategic Partners (of which Questar directors David Warnock and Donald Hughes are general partners) owns roughly 20% of Questar.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending October, 2007:
Sales: $43.3M
One year growth: 83.0%
Net income: $0.3M

Officers:
Chairman: Andrew L. Simon
CEO and Director: Roy Lipner
SVP Business Development and Program Management: Steve Mesmer

Competitors:
Houghton Mifflin Holding Company
McGraw-Hill
Pearson Education