Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Security Strategies for Every Stage of the Testing Process DeDe Hedlund, Creighton University Jeff Place, Questionmark Evangelist NCTA – Minneapolis, MN Friday Aug. 3, 2012, 11:30-12:30 pm

Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. There are no shortage of test security challenges At each stage of the assessment process (Authoring, Scheduling, Delivery, and Reporting) solutions exist to meet security challenges Lets Identify the threats to watch out for Show you today how certain product functionality can meet your test security needs by walking through a typical examination process and some real life examples Goals of this Session Slide 2

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Create Collaborative, secure authoring of surveys, quizzes, tests and exams Deliver Blended delivery to support a broad range of devices and security needs Analyze Evaluate results and inform stakeholders with timely, meaningful reports Assessment Management Process

Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 9 Authoring: Item Banking and Security Security impacts Validity of assessment results Fairness to participants One approach: security rights that are role- based Set access permissions by role or profile Limit an authors or reviewers access to the various functions Limit access to topic (item) folders Limit what the author may do in those folders

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 12 Questionmark Secure Stops people from printing questions Stops people from typing in their own URL Always display in full screen and its not possible to maximize or minimize Stops people starting a new task Does not provide menu options or icons Disables control keys and task switching Disables right-click menu options Disables the ability to start new applications Prevents going backwards to a previous page Stops people exiting in a high stakes, proctored, environment Hides the HTML source Provides an API to control certain functions of a browser from the server Server can command Questionmark Secure to display a toolbar Secure Browser Regular Browser

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. All participant scoring is conducted on the Perception server (rather than on client/participant PCs) Scoring algorithms are not sent in any way to participant PCs Perception can be configured to use SSL to ensure communication between participants and the server are secure Data in item repositories are encrypted (QML is encrypted) providing added item bank security Delivery Security Slide 14

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Creighton University School of Pharmacy & Health Professions Private Jesuit University located in Omaha, NE 2001 started the first and only accredited truly distance based full time Doctor of Pharmacy program Issues to resolve and security requirements 1. How to securely deliver and administer exams to students located throughout the country 2. Paper and pencil were too expensive and its difficult to distribute and collect approximately 5600 exams per semester 3. Control who sees what test and when 4. Lock down the computer to eliminate printing, instant messaging, browsing the internet during the tests 5. Ability for students to mark an identified area of a graphic

Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Solutions offered to meet requirements: 1. Provided online testing solution and eliminated almost all paper and pencil tests to reduce costs Question types including Hotspot allowing online exams to replicate past paper exam formats with the additional ability to provide instant feedback. 3. Ability to randomly deliver different variations of an exam 4. Manage large item banks of questions including security for collaborative authoring among faculty 5. Lock down browser 6. Scheduling (right test to right student) Demos 1. Hotspot question type & feedback text/images 2. Password system & variations of an exam 3. Item Banking and security for collaborative authoring 4. Questionmark Secure 5. Scheduling Creighton University School of Pharmacy & Health Professions Slide 20

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Randomization Refresh items regularly Build large item banks Track item parameters Tests that are unique for each test taker make it hard to share answers Adaptive tests provide different questions based on responses to previous questions Considerations for cheat-resistant questions and assessments Slide 41

Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Answer choices should be roughly the same length and kept as short as possible. Provide a minimum of three answer choices and a maximum of five. Four is considered optimal. Keep your writing clear and concise – youre testing knowledge, not reading comprehension. Make sure that youre putting the correct answer in the first two positions as often as the last two positions. Improve Your Multiple Choice Questions Slide 42

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Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Extended Matching Question Type The number of answer options depends on the logical number of realistic options for the test taker.) The same answer choice could be correct for more than one question in the set Some answer choices may not be the correct answer for any of the questions So it is difficult the answer this type of question correctly by chance. A well-written lead-in question is so specific that students understand what kind of response is expected, without needing to look at the answer options. Slide 44

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