New ECEs Coming: Business Ethics, Operations Management, Three Maths

[Jonathan Whatley]

What's this just added quietly to Excelsior's web site? Five new ECEs.

So far, these titles are now on the list of Exam Content Guides. They're not yet on the main exam page.

Each has a posted start to their availability of January 2013 except for Contemporary Mathematics, whose posted start is February 2013. All are two hours. I imagine their prices will be, like the other two hour ECEs, USD 95 each with no additional test center fee. ECEs are administered at Pearson VUE test centers.

Business Ethics [pdf]
3 sh upper level. 2 hrs, appx. 100 four-option mcqs.
Text is Lussier & Sherman, Business, government, and society essentials: An applied ethics approach.

Operations Management [pdf]
3 sh upper level. 2 hrs, appx. 80 four-option mcqs.
Text is Russell & Taylor, Operations management. Saylor's free online course in Operations Management is also cited.

Contemporary Mathematics [pdf]
3 sh lower level. 2 hrs, appx. 60 four-option mcqs.
The exam covers "material and skills typically taught in an undergraduate course that serves to fulfill a math or quantitative requirement for students who will not need to go on to take more advanced mathematics courses."
Texts are either both Tannenbaum, Excursions in modern mathematics and Blitzer, Thinking mathematically, or a custom text that will be sold through Excelsior's bookstore with sections from each.

Precalculus Algebra [pdf]
3 sh lower level. 2 hrs, appx. 60 four-option mcqs.
Text is Sullivan, College algebra. Coursera's free course in Precalculus, Excelsior writes, "appears to be a very good match with the exam preparation materials."

Quantitative Analysis [pdf]
3 sh upper level. 2 hrs, appx. 90 four-option mcqs.
"The exam covers the major quantitative techniques and their application to the analysis of business problems." Meets a requirement for the BS in General Business.
NOTE: It's not clear if this would count as liberal arts credit, or math credit. (That I implicitly listed it under "Maths" in the thread title is just me trying to fit stuff in to the title. :p)
Text is Anderson et al., An introduction to management science: Quantitative approaches to decision making.

[sanantone]

Now we have umpteen million and one low-cost options for business ethics. Sorry. It's just a pet peeve of mine when organizations create tests and self-paced courses that are already offered by others.