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Session 1
1B We Live in a Global Economy...and Cheating Is a Universal Language!
Presenters:
Rachel Watkins Schoenig, ACT, Inc.
Ray Nicosia, Educational Testing Service

Today we enjoy a global economy, enabling the efficient exchange of goods around the world. Just as we see goods and ideas flowing more freely in a globalized economy, however, it turns out cheating isn't bound by country borders, culture, or language either. Lessons learned in other countries to protect the integrity of test results can help improve testing domestically too. Join seasoned professionals as they share experiences and lessons learned in international markets that can help raise awareness and improve test security anywhere testing occurs!

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 2
2B Prompting Integrity and Impeding Dishonesty
Presenter:
Jamie Boyd, Northwest Arkansas Community College

Testing Security is an always changing process because of new technology and growing student pressures. We will be reviewing faculty/staff roles and how their involvement impacts the testing center and the students. We will include a discussion about institutional reporting to assist in creating transparency within the institution when incidents occur. I hope to reveal some of the behaviors that have occurred and share incidents and outcomes. I would like to present new software available to students and technology available to help prevent dishonesty within academic testing. I invite you to exchange information on improving testing security and promoting integrity.

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 4
4C The Top 10 Traits of an Exam Security Professional
Presenters:
Jamie Mulkey, Caveon Test Security
Jarret Dyer, College of DuPage (IL)

Do you have what it takes to be an Exam Security Super Hero? Are you able to protect exams from thieves and cheaters? Detect test security violations? Respond to test security breaches to improve your testing center's overall test security? Test security super heroes may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but their honed test security traits are ridding the planet of evil and making tests fair and valid for all test takers. Come join us as we discuss the top 10 traits of an exam security super hero. We'll describe the necessary skills needed to stay abreast of the latest test threats, provide some resources to help keep you at the top of your game, and discuss why, as a test center administrator, it's important to have the big picture of test security in mind as you proctor and manage the testing center environment.

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 5
5A May I See Your ID - Revisited
Presenter:
Sally Carter, Southeast Missouri State University

New and updated for 2016 and as a follow-up to last year's fake ID presentation, this session will discuss more types of identification and how to check for authenticity. Two major issues for test security are fake ID's and real ID's used by the wrong person. What can you do to help identify identity fraud? What is the difference between a passport and a visa? What does a valid Green Card look like? What do I do if someone hands me a fake ID? You will be shown tips to verify ID's and inexpensive tools to help in the authentication process.

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 7
7C It Takes Two...How an Exam Is Created, the Importance of Administration, and How We Protect It—Together
Presenters:
Tara Miller, Ascend Learning
Jennifer Geraets, ACT
James Wollack, University of Wisconsin - Madison

It takes two (and many, many more to be honest). As test publishers, we spend a lot of time and resources to market our exams—advertising their statistical reliability and validity, hyping the product quality of our respective brands, plugging the trustworthiness and credibility of our exams within their respective spaces. Test publishers have exhaustive (and expensive) processes to develop these tools. The process draws on the expertise of psychometricians, content developers, subject experts, and item writers, each of whom contributes to the development of assessments that yield fair and valid scores.

Test administrators are a vital component of the test development process and the supporting and promoting of the overall validity of test scores and the reputations of the testing companies they represent on exam day. Yet, all too often, test publishers fail to provide test administrators with a sufficiently complete picture of the entire testing context to allow them to appreciate their role within the process and represent the testing companies as well as possible.

The objectives of this presentation are to (a) educate the audience to the complete picture of the entire testing creation process, start to finish - what it takes to create an exam - from Job Task Analysis to Score Reporting and beyond; (b) discuss the importance of the exam administration role as a pivotal part of that larger process; (c) illuminate how all of our respective roles intertwine to provide test results which yield valid score interpretations.

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 10
10A How to Catch a Cheat!
Presenters:
Rachel Watkins Schoenig, ACT, Inc.
Ray Nicosia, Educational Testing Service
Faisel Alam, Law School Admission Council

Cheating can be low tech or highly sophisticated and coordinated. New types of technology and new players in the cheating market are making it more difficult to stop attempts to cheat. Join test security professionals for a fun and interactive session to catch some common and not-so-common attempts to cheat. You'll learn some of the newest cheating techniques...and ways to spot them!

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 11
11E Academic Dishonesty and Testing: How Student Beliefs and Test Settings Impact Decisions to Cheat
Presenters:
Jarret Dyer, College of DuPage (IL)
Heidi Pettyjohn, University of Cincinnati (OH)

Many testing professionals are finding themselves in the middle of a debate on college campuses regarding the security of take home tests, both for placement purposes and in the classroom. To aid in this conversation, the presenters developed a survey that has been administered to over 500 students nation-wide, comparing beliefs and behaviors regarding different types of academic dishonesty, across test settings. This presentation will discuss the methodology of the study and present preliminary findings, as well as discuss future research and possible implications of the survey results on college campuses.

Conference Track: Test Security

Session 12
12B Test Security Practices Important to Test Publishers and How They Affect You
Presenter:
Rory E McCorkle, PSI Services LLC

Security is a critical consideration for any organization that creates examinations. This session will present the results of the 2015 survey of security practices conducted by the ATP Security Committee. These results include responses from credentialing organizations and vendors and show the practices being used by credentialing organizations to address security prevention, detection, enforcement, mitigation, and litigation. The presenter will also discuss how vendors and credentialing bodies see the division of security responsibilities as well as perceptions related to the effectiveness of various security activities. Finally, the presenter will make recommendations as to how test centers can incorporate these test security practices into standard operating procedures.

Conference Track: Test Security