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Certified Exam Security Professional
CESP Exam Prep Session #1
Competencies 1-5
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Today’s Presenter
Jamie Mulkey, Ed.D.Executive Director, CESP
Program
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Agenda• Exam Overview• The first five competencies• Important resources for you• Dissect DOMC questions• Allow you to ask questions• Additional support
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CESP Overview
• Fifteen competencies• Adaptive Test• All DOMC items
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General Resources
• Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
• Copyright Registration of Secure Tests
• Exam Security Breach Summaries
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Competency 1: Exam Security Basics• Handbook of Test
Security - Chapters 3 and 6
• TILSA Guidebooks• Test Security and the
2014 Testing Standards - Presentation by Wayne Camara
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DOMC practice item #1A college admissions testing program was alerted through an anonymous email that students are posting test questions to a specific social media site. Subsequent investigation confirmed that this site had been operational for approximately 6 months, and several forms of the testing program's exam have been affected.Is this a proper recommendation for how the program should respond to the threat found on this social media site?
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DOMC practice item #1Polls 1, 2 & 3
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Competency 2: Exam Security Planning
• Handbook of Test SecurityBook - Chapter 6 pp 127-146
• TILSA GuidebookAppendices C & D
• The ITC Guidelines on the Security of Tests, Examinations, and Other AssessmentsBook - pp 9-14
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DOMC practice item #2You've been asked by your manager, the Director of Test Security, to create an outline for a Test Security Plan.Should this be included in your outline of the plan?
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DOMC practice item #2Polls 4, 5 & 6
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Competency 3: Legal considerations• Handbook of Test Security
Chapter 11• Protecting Your Tests Using Copyright Law
Webinar –• Exam Integrity Investigations: An
Introduction to the EssentialsWebinar –
• Copyright Registration of Secure Tests• Caveon Data Forensics Legal Defensibility
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DOMC practice item #3A former item development contractor for a testing program has written a test preparation guide in order to prepare candidates for an exam that the contractor helped to create. The program is concerned that the items in the book will be substantially similar to actual items on the test.Is this action one that the testing program can take to prevent or minimize this type of security problem?
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DOMC practice item #3Polls 7, 8 & 9
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Competency 4: Exam Planning and Design
• The Discrete Option Multiple Choice Test Item: An Important Step in Test and Item Design
• Handbook of Test Security Chapter 3 p64-71
• Overexposure - A Problem for Certification Tests
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DOMC practice item #4
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A professional credentialing testing program manager wants to know how a test's design can be implemented so that it will deter the improper use of Internet braindump sites by program constituents.Is this correct advice to offer to the program manager?
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DOMC practice item #4Polls 10, 11 & 12
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Competency 5: Exam Development• The ITC Guidelines on the Security of
Tests, Examinations, and Other Assessmentspp 16-18
• Number of short blogs
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DOMC Practice item #5
Is the following a practice you would recommend to a test development manager in order to improve test development security when facilitating a remote test item review session?
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DOMC Practice item #5Polls 13, 14 & 15
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Additional Support• Join the LinkedIn CESP
group – discuss test security topics
• Receive our monthly CSI Newsletter
• Contact us: [email protected]
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Next Steps• Obtain resources• Network with others
interested in the exam
• Set a schedule for reading/studying on a regular basis
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Thank you!
Next Exam prep session: Wed, Nov 16, 2016
Jamie Mulkey, Ed.D.Executive Director, CESP Program
