Innovative testing and technology solutions since 1982.
D&S Diversified Technologies LLP --- Headmaster LLP, partners with state agencies to customize testing, certification and registry solutions.
In Montana EDUNET began in 1982. EDUNET was a distance learning system that by 1988 had 40 distance learning courses on line and available nationwide. EDUNET merged with HEADMASTER software, on a handshake, in 1985, when general partners Paul Dorrance and Ben Schmitt launched the HEADMASTER school administration software package for attendence, report cards, and transcripts. HEADMASTER's Distance Learning network (known as EDUNET) led to a distance learning course to teach and certifiy nurse aides in Montana. The course was approved by the Montana Dept of Health in 1989. Then, in 1991, to our first certified nurse aide testing contract certifying nurse aides for the State of Montana. Today we support competency testing, certification, and a variety of healthcare professional registries nationwide.
Created in Montana; EDUNET distance learning network begins.
Founded in Montana; HEADMASTER school administration software launches.
Montana Dept of Health contracts HEADMASTER to provide Nurse Aide testing and certification under the newly created Federal OBRA regulations..
U.S. News & World Report recognizes a Montana compnay named HEADMASTER for pioneering the electronic frontier with their EDUNET distance learning network.
Oregon awards its nurse aide competency testing contract to HEADMASTER; North Dakota and South Dakota follow soon thereafter.
Ohio STNA and Lead Abatement Testing contracts are awarded to HEADMASTER. We add the D&S Diversified Technologies LLP name and open our Eastern regional office in Findlay, Ohio under the D&SDT name.
Tennessee, Delaware, and Idaho nurse aide testing contracts are added.
WebETest launches. Supporting online test development, online scheduling and test delivery; Utah adopts our WebETest software for Nurse Aide testing and to maintain Utah's NA registry. Idaho adds Facility Administrator Testing.
Arizona, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Vermont award nurse aide testing contracts to D&SDT - HEADMASTER; medication aide testing begins in Ohio, Montana, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
New Jersey awards nursing aide, personal care assistant, medication assistant, and facility administrator testing to our strategic partner PSI. PSI subcontracts with us.
Development begins on TestMaster Universe (TMU), our cloud based testing platform; Massachusetts MAP Testing and Registry is added.
Nevada Medication Aide testing is added. Ohio X-ray and Direct Service Worker testing added, along with Arizona assisted living caregiver and manager testing with a registry powered by TMU.
Nevada nurse aide testing contract added.
TMU launches for CNA and CMA testing in Oregon; Tennessee MA-C testing begins.
Wisconsin nurse aide testing and registry contract awarded.
Testing continues through COVID with new virtual processes and infection control standards; Arizona LPN/RN Refresher testing and an emergency Arkansas nurse aide testing and registry contract is awarded.
Missouri and Minnesota nurse aide testing contracts added, with Missouri’s registry data migrated into TMU.
Michigan, Massachusetts, and California nurse aide testing added.
Idaho MA-C, Kentucky (KCTCS), and Wyoming nurse aide testing added.
Our certification and licensure work is guided by a few core beliefs — these principles shaped our state testing programs from the beginning.
Certification testing should reflect each state’s mandated training, curriculum, and current practice, with a test advisory panel reporting to the State's regulatory agency.
Exams must keep pace with ever changing practice and innovations. We run job analyses and item-writing workshops with subject matter experts, then validate test plans and test items before State Agencies adopt them.
Candidates deserve flexible options. Regional and in-facility testing as well as in person and remote testing are supported — especially where training happens — candidates testing where they train tends to reduce anxiety and improve successful testing performance.
We work to shorten the path from successful training completion, to test registration, to testing, to certification and placement on the registry, with a completely electronic process needing no application to test. We always provide same or next business day, official scoring, detailed candidate and training program feedback along with same day scored registry placement.
The whole complex system should continually adapt. We share all data in real time so training programs, employers, health care organizations, agencies, and candidates can make informed decisions to steadily improve.
On time decisions happen close to the point of initial customer contact. Our program managers and support staff provide live, direct help throughout the testing process; answering every toll free phone call, during business hours, using an in country support person, answering within three rings, with a very few calls transferred. Help is delivered at the initial point of customer contact!
Secure, state of the art, technology should simplify every step — from secure electronic test registration, with no application needed, where candidates choose a test event that fits their schedule, through on time testing and registry placement — always utilizing secure, in house developed propretary software. TestMaster Universe!
Candidates should be treated with dignity, provided a nonbiased testing environment and be given every opportunity to perform to the best of their ability.
We’re based in Helena, Montana, and Findlay, Ohio — supporting state agencies, training programs, and candidates across the country.