EBOOKS AND GUIDES
Browse our collection of ultimate guides, printable workbooks, infographics, and more.
ULTIMATE GUIDES
Test Security and Record & Review Proctoring: The Ultimate Guide
Record and Review (R&R) proctoring is a model of online proctoring that captures the video and audio from an exam administration for review at a later time by someone to determine whether any form of test fraud may have occurred.
Is R&R sufficient to keep your tests secure and your test scores valid, or is there more that needs to be done?
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Data Forensics
Data forensics is difficult—especially if you don’t fully understand the process behind the numbers. To help, we created this ultimate guide to answer all your burning questions:
- How data forensics protects the integrity of your tests
- The powerful statistics behind data forensics
- The hidden costs of poor exam security
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Switching to Online Testing
There are lots of reasons to transition to online testing. Whether you hope to deliver some or all of your exams online, it’s important that you know the basics. In this guide, you’ll learn:
- What are the advantages of online testing?
- What are the potential risks?
- What can you do to beef up security?
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Site Monitoring for States: Part 2
Part 2 of this guide elaborates on the test administration monitoring requirements and provides resource-saving hacks you will want to employ this year.
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Monitoring the Web for Stolen Test Content
It’s frustrating (and expensive!) for testing organizations to develop great test questions, only to have those items disclosed on the internet and have undeserving test takers pass the exam using pre-knowledge. In this guide, you’ll learn how to utilize web monitoring, including:
- A checklist to help plan for web exposure
- How to patrol the “international” internet
- The value of DCMAs
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Site Monitoring for States: Part 1
This guide contains the definitive breakdown of test administration monitoring requirements with resource-saving hacks you will want to employ this year. After reading this guide, you will be able to:
- Understand the Peer Review Requirements for site monitoring
- Evaluate 10 Steps to a first-rate site monitoring plan
- Identify four types of site monitoring solutions
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Monitoring Test Administration for Districts: Part 2
Part 2 of this comprehensive guide contains all the information you need to conduct effective monitoring in your school district. You’ll learn:
- What monitors should be looking for during testing
- How to implement your monitoring plan
- What to do with your monitoring data
ULTIMATE GUIDE
How to Build a Super Secure Online Test
Writing an excellent (and psychometrically sound) exam is a difficult, timeconsuming, and expensive undertaking. And it is devastating when the exam you worked so hard to develop is stolen or exposed, and all that hard work
(and money) goes down the drain.
Luckily, there is a solution. You can spare your team this heartache by proactively building security directly into your exam itself during the development process.
Learn how in this guide:
Luckily, there is a solution. You can spare your team this heartache by proactively building security directly into your exam itself during the development process.
Learn how in this guide:
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Automated Item Generation
Until recently, testing professionals have always had to painstakingly and manually perform the task of item writing. There has been no way to easily and rapidly expand an item pool while also maintaining its psychometric quality. Now, there is a better way… AIG.
In this guide, you’ll learn:
- What is AIG?
- How does it work?
- What are the security benefits of AIG?
- How does AIG save time and money?
ULTIMATE GUIDE
The Ultimate Guide to Monitoring Test Administration for Districts: Part 1
Whether you’ve conducted Test Administration Monitoring in the past or you’re just starting out, this comprehensive guide to monitoring in your school district contains all the information you need—from training to data collection and beyond.
In Part 1, you’ll learn how to:
- Build your program
- Select your schools for monitoring
- Prepare your monitors for observation
ULTIMATE GUIDE
WORKBOOKS
Security Boot Camp: Part 1 Preparedness
In Part 1: Preparedness, you’ll learn how to proactively boost your security prior to testing. You’ll uncover ways to create a comprehensive test security and response plan and find out how to effectively deter security threats by publicizing your test security measures.
PRINTABLE WORKBOOK
Security Boot Camp: Part 2 Technology
PRINTABLE WORKBOOK
Security Boot Camp: Part 3 Evaluation
PRINTABLE WORKBOOK
INFOGRAPHICS
5 Reasons to Develop a Test Security Plan
Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” We know for a fact he was talking about test security planning. What is the importance of developing a security plan? There are five major reasons why your program should tackle security planning now.
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AIG vs SmartItem™
Okay, seriously—what’s the difference? Though they both achieve similar test security protection, this infographic explores eight ways that SmartItem™ technology differs from Automated Item Generation (AIG).
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5 Benefits of Secure Exam Design
Design is a critical step on the path to secure and valid tests and results. Here are the five major benefits of designing your items and tests with security in mind.
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Below the Surface
Identify the test security threats that could be lurking under the surface of your assessment program, and learn how data forensics can help you eradicate them.
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Knowledge is Power
The online, remote testing environment provides a fertile ground for many types of test fraud. A Security Checkup provides valuable insight into the health of your remote testing program, helping your team address these seven questions.
INFO SHEET
What is a SmartItem™?
A self-protecting item, otherwise known as a SmartItem, employs proprietary technology resistant to cheating and theft. Here are seven things you should know.
INFO SHEET
6 Steps to Building a Data Forensics Program
Get started with Data Forensics by using this simple six-step process.
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Proxy Test Takers: A Survival Guide
As a testing professional, have you ever received an email, LinkedIn message, or other social DM from someone offering their proxy services for the test that you created? We have. These are some of our favorite responses.
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5 Ways to Boost Security when Using Record & Review Proctoring
Compared to no proctoring at all—there are security advantages to using R&R proctoring. However, because of the limitations of any type of proctoring, you’ll want to bolster your test security in other ways, too.
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6 Reasons Your Certification Program Needs Data Forensics
There are six great reasons your certification program should start using data forensics to uncover test security anomalies.
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Choosing Your Online Testing Engine
Transitioning to online testing? First, make sure to look under the hood of the exam development and delivery tools you are driving. The power of your testing vehicle is its test engine…
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What's in Your Detection Toolkit?
You undoubtedly have toolkits for various routine tasks, as well as for the occasional emergency that surfaces. But what’s in your toolbox for detecting test security problems? Here are five tools your program cannot live without.
INFO SHEET
We all do it. From time to time we rely on tired old excuses to avoid doing things with which we’re not too familiar. We’re not here to judge, but do you make these excuses to avoid taking a deeper look into your test program data? If so, we think we can help.
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5 Common Myths About Standardized Testing
“Standardized Testing” is an oft-used phrase that is just as oft-misunderstood. Here we explore five of the most common myths about standardization in testing.
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Common Mistakes When Managing Security Incidents
We’ve seen a lot of test administration over the years. One thing we’ve learned is that there’s always something to take away from a mistake. Here are some common mistakes testing programs make when managing test security incidents (and how to avoid them).
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8 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve the Security of Your Online Tests
This handy checklist outlines 8 actionable steps your program can take—starting now—to improve the security of your online exams.
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4 Reasons Your Testing Program Needs a Quality Assurance Check
A quality assurance check of remote test administrations provides data that enable you to make improvements to your policies, procedures, training, and more.
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Are Proctors Enough?
Here at Caveon, we are big proponents of online testing, but only if it is secure online testing. Some programs may be used to relying on proctors as their only security measure, but that just isn’t enough. A robust security plan is necessary for valid and effective online testing.
INFO SHEET
Caveon’s test security experts have been there and done that. Here are three ways we help you beat your data forensics anxieties to bravely add more layers of protection to your testing program.
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EBOOKS AND BOOKLETS
The SmartItem eBook
In his new ebook, Dr. David Foster discusses a revolutionary concept in item and test design: the SmartItem. Without hyperbole, the SmartItem can prevent all test theft, and almost all forms of cheating. Such a claim cannot be ignored, and we invite all to learn more in Dr. David Foster’s new book.
Quality Assurance for Remote Testing
When transitioning to online remote-proctored testing, it is critical to identify vulnerabilities in your systems, personnel, practices, and policies.
SmartItem Overview Booklet
The testing industry faces a number of major challenges, including rampant cheating and test theft, ballooning development costs, and unfairness due to testwiseness. The SmartItem is the solution to all of these problems.
Learn more about the SmartItem in this short informational booklet.
Remote Testing Security Checkup
The Caveon Security Checkup is ideal for remote testing programs that need a high-level view into the health of their program.
Caveon’s powerful Data Forensics, Monitoring, and Web Patrol® teams are combining forces to deliver a multi-perspective view of your remote testing security.
Caveon AIG Booklet
The allure of lightning-fast item bank expansion has tantalized testing programs for years. Unfortunately, the promise of an AIG solution that’s actually easy to use has eluded us. This changes now.
With Caveon AIG, you can harness the power of the SmartItem to easily generate thousands of unique items, then export them into your existing development and delivery systems.
What is Just In Time (JiT) Data Forensics?
Already know your way around your data forensics results? Then Just in Time (JiT) Data Forensics is perfect for you. Upload your data and get results—fast.
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