Developed in the 1950s as a response to a growing interest in postsecondary education due to the GI Bill, the American College Testing Program, known today like ACT, it was a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that provided standardized testing services aimed at "helping students make better decisions about which colleges to attend and what programs to study, and to provide information useful to colleges both in the student admissions process students in ensuring their success after enrollment” (“ACT.org”). Historically, the ACT has played a critical role in the development of the education and workforce sectors and continues to support both education and workforce development in the 21st century. In 2002, the ACT organization announced a new corporate structure, consisting of “two divisions: education and workforce development. The new governance structure consists of a Board of Directors 14 members, and the expanded advisory structure retains the ACT state organizations but now also includes two separate advisory committees, one for each of the new divisions” (“ACT.org”) that invites questioning of the “nonprofit” title of the company. Adorning a corporate title, however, suggests that the ACT organization's role and its purpose of standardized testing persists as an economic enterprise whose sole purpose is to create revenue. The ACT organization relies heavily on economic and technical developments that help support the productivity and reliability of a product. In the case of the non-profit, tax-exempt entity ACT, standardized tests are big business because “every year Americans spend millions on the tests they must write to be evaluated for admission to undergraduate and graduate programs, and many more millions more...... middle of paper......evaluation of a text created, marketed and sold by ACT Incorporated. Ultimately, connecting the history of ACT testing, the creation of a test prep study guide distributed by a non-profit “corporate” entity, and a qualitative study of technical design is undoubtedly a challenge. However, the results of such research will potentially challenge or strengthen notions about the validity of both standardized tests and test preparation materials with respect to technical writing. Works Cited Works Cited "ACT: The First Fifty Years, 1959-2009." ACT.org. Law, Inc., 2009. Web. October 1, 2010. .Carter, Chris. The case against standardized testing. October 6, 2009. testcritic.homestead.com. September 23. 2010 .