Welcome to NTPA, the association for test prep professionals. We are a professional association dedicated to supporting test prep professionals, upholding the highest ethical standards, and promoting best practices in the test prep industry. Here you’ll find opportunities to learn, connect, and collaborate with colleagues across the country.
Fostering collaboration, advancing high standards
Our mission is built on driving best practices and supporting professional activities in the test prep community.
Membership benefits
NTPA membership comes with networking opportunities, mentorship, inclusion in our Member Directory, and many other benefits. We offer membership at the Solopreneur, Organization, and Showcase tiers.
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We set the standard for ethical conduct.
All NTPA members subscribe to our Code of Ethics. Membership in NTPA lets your clients know that you adhere to the highest standards of professional conduct. Code of EthicsFeatured blogs
How Standardized Testing is Essential to Promoting Equity
Educational inequality in the United States is an obvious, growing, and well-documented crisis¹. Individual students have unequal and insufficient access to quality education, districts are underfunded, and the generational effects of redlining have resulted in de...
The Value of Test Preparation
Test preparation not only helps students build content knowledge, but it also helps them develop life skills such as work ethic, responsibility, and the ability to perform under pressure.
How Standardized Testing Benefits Individuals
Debate about the value of testing abounds these days. The focus is primarily on the big picture, exploring whether testing is racially biased, economically prejudiced, or even useful at predicting college performance for applicants. While both sides make compelling,...
How Standardized Testing Benefits Society
When most of us think of tests, we think of tests in school. When we think of standardized tests, we think SAT, ACT, or similar exams used for admissions. What we are less likely to envision are the thousands of other standardized tests used for thousands of purposes....