MEET DR. MAC

Jean D'Arcy Maculaitis, Ph. D., NYU, is the President and Founder of MAC Testing & Consulting, Inc., located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.

Dr. Mac is an award-winning English language educator, international lecturer, consultant, grammarian, essayist, certified clinical hypnotherapist, professional guidance and career counselor and brain researcher.

She is the author of, among other numerous non-technical and technical works, THE MACULAITIS ASSESSMENT OF COMPETENCIES - COMPREHENSIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVALUATION, (The MAC K-12), a coordinated and developmental series of test batteries for non-native speakers of English in grades K-12. It is professionally regarded as the definitive K-12 second language testing program in the world today.

Published by Questar Assessment, Inc. (formerly Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc.), the MAC K-12 is used throughout the world. It measures listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The MAC K-12 is mandated in New Jersey and elsewhere for statewide adoption. The latest generation of The MAC K-12 was normed in New Jersey during the 2000-2001 academic year and nationally normed in the spring of 2001. The new MAC II became commercially available worldwide in July 2001. Currently, there are plans for a Spanish MAC.

Dr. Mac is in the process of finalizing three levels of pivotal personal/academic evaluative tools for native and non-native learners in grades 5-adult, viz., MAC ACTION INDICATORS: INSIGHTFUL ASSESSMENTS FOR PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT (aka The Profile). Among these self-access tests are the:

• MAC Stress Tests for Teens and Young Adults
  
  
• MAC Mini Burn-out Quiz
  
  
• AD/HD Questionnaire for Teens and Young Adults
  
  
• LD Questionnaire for Teens and Young Adults
  
  
• Who Am I ? Personality Types A, B, C, F & T and Behavior Descriptors, MAC Self-Portrait Profile, MAC Birth Order Personality Indicator (These three personality tests also have career implications.)
  
  
• MAC Rating Scale of Hemispheric Mode Preference
  
  
• MAC Diagnostic Checklist for Visual Reading and Auditory Difficulties
  
  
• MAC Test Core Beliefs Questionnaire for High School and College Test Takers and Children's/Learner's Human Rights Documents
  
  
• MAC Learning Style Pathway Rating Scale
  
  
• MAC Self-Inventory: Discovering the Multi-Talented You
  

These fascinating and practical evaluative tools and others will be available on the computer during the summer of 2004. Everyone who studies at MAC Testing takes The Profile. There are no exceptions. All results are to be reported to Dr. Mac for possible additional professional recommendations, if necessary.

ABRIDGED HONORS:

Select Member, International Platform Association (the oldest and most prestigious speakers' organization in the world. Among its myriad of notable members: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Steven A. Douglass, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Jack Anderson, Tony Blair)

-Who's Who in American Women

Test Reviewer, Buros Institute of Measurement, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

-Who's Who in America

Prepared Guidelines for the Preparation and Certification of International Studies/Global Education Teachers in the United States (symposium funded by Exxon)

-Who's Who Among Female Executives

Featured in Educator's Deskbook of Ideas and Activities from Award-Winning Teachers and in Highlights Magazine

-First Five Hundred in the World

Elected to Kappa Delta Pi,a national honor society in education (member NJUC Chapter)

-Distinguished Alumna

Cited as "An Outstanding American Educator" by the National Conference of Christians and Jews

-World's Who's Who of Women plus named to the Hall of Fame

Elected to Phi Delta Kappa, an international fraternity dedicated to research, service and leadership (member NYU Chapter)

-World Decoration of Excellence for Outstanding Achievements in the 1980s