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Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support
Delivering Education Programs that Make Better Service Members Today and More Effective Citizens Tomorrow
Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES)
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Program Guidance and Other Tools
DANTES provides a variety of tools to help the Services' Voluntary Education (VolEd) Professionals share information
about DANTES no-cost programs with service members and their families. We hope you will visit this section regularly and use the resources provided to help make your job easier and to help ensure that the programs available are used and shared with others. Testimonials are so valuable!
Academic Skills Training
Help your service members and military students improve their math, science, English skills, and more with Academic Skills Training resources from Petersons. Flyers and more can be ordered and mailed directly to Service Education Centers.
Order yours today!
College & Career Planning (Kuder Journey)
Learn how to effectively counsel Service members on Kuder Journey through tutorials and additional training opportunities by
visiting the
Kuder Journey website.
Learn how you, as education counselors, career advisors, and career coaches can use the Holland Theory to help your military students succeed. Here are some resources for you to review, download, print and share:
► Holland Theory: Overview and Application | Kuder
► Blog - Kuder
Credit-by-Exam (CLEP)
College Board
The CLEP exams are managed by
College Board.
They also offer many FREE resources for education professionals and counselors to share with service members and to display in their education offices. Please take the time to review these links and order the materials that can help you share information about the program more efficiently with students.
► CLEP Practice Tools
► FREE Professional Publications for CLEP
► Inform Students
► Resources for Counselors
Modern States
College Board and Modern States have partnered together to provide this CLEP prep source available at no cost to service
members as part of the Freshman Year for Free program. Each CLEP exam has its own self-paced, online video course (taught by top professors) and was developed in association with the owners of each exam. The content can also be downloaded to a personal device for offline viewing. Visit the
Modern States website
for more information.
Credit-by-Exam (DSST)
DoD MWR Libraries
The
DoD MWR Libraries
provides FREE library resources to service members and their families. This is a particularly helpful benefit for all active-duty service members, including the National Guard and Reserve members who may not have access to installation libraries. Certain libraries may require you to register and create your own account, but the resources are still free.
EBSCO Learning Express specifically offers DoD Test Prep materials.
Prometric DSST Study Resources
After speaking with your education counselor to make sure that your college will accept a DSST exam for college credit, you can start your test preparation to help ensure you pass your exam. You can gain insight into what's on your test with
Free DSST exam fact sheets
. These tools provide an overview of the exam subject, references to use, and practice questions to take.
You can also get
study material
and try one of DSST's
Free online practice exams
from the Prometric website.
Prep-a-Thon Handbook
Prep-a-Thon Handbook:
The purpose of this handbook is to provide recommendations and guidance to Service Education Center professionals on hosting test preparation events in support of the DANTES-sponsored Credit-by-Exam program. A testing Prep-a-Thon is intended to help ensure effective study practices by service members in advance of taking relevant CLEP and DSST tests.
Download the
Prep-a-Thon Success Handbook
for guidance on how to plan, prepare for, and implement a Prep-a-Thon event.
Program Flyers to Share
Visuals help!
Our Marketing Resources page
has several infographics and program fact sheets for you to download and share. Check them out!