EBOOKS AND GUIDES

Browse our collection of ultimate guides, printable workbooks, infographics, and more.

ULTIMATE GUIDES

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

Your Ultimate Guide to Data Forensics

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 to Transitioning to Online Testing

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 to Site Monitoring Part 2: For States

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 to Monitoring the Web for Stolen Test Content

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 to Site Monitoring Part 1: For States

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 to Test Administration Monitoring Part 2: For School Districts

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 to Automated Item Generation (AIG)

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 to Test Administration Monitoring Part 1: For School Districts

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. 

Security Boot Camp Part 1: Preparedness

PRINTABLE WORKBOOK

Security Boot Camp: Part 2 Technology

In Part 2: Technology, you’ll learn ways to evaluate the technology you use to shore up your test security. Evaluating your online testing solutions, leveraging secure item types, and effectively increasing the number of items on your tests are three key ways to ensure the long-term health of your exams.

 
Security Boot Camp Part 2: Technology

PRINTABLE WORKBOOK

Security Boot Camp: Part 3 Evaluation

In Part 3: Evaluation, you’ll learn about implementing quality assurance measures, patrolling the web for stolen intellectual property, and deep data diving. These are three key ways to evaluate the health of your items and tests & shore up the security of your program.

 
Security Boot Camp Part 3: Evaluation

PRINTABLE WORKBOOK

INFOGRAPHICS

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. 

Below the Surface: What Data Forensics Can Uncover

INFOGRAPHIC

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.

Knowledge is Power: Reasons Your Program Needs a Test Security Checkup

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.

What is a SmartItem?

INFO SHEET

6 Steps to Building a Data Forensics Program

Get started with Data Forensics by using this simple six-step process.

6 Steps to Building a Powerful Data Forensics Program

INFOGRAPHIC

The Lifetime Value of AIG

How does the cost of Caveon AIG stack up against the cost of traditional item pool expansion?

The Lifetime Value of AIG

INFOGRAPHIC

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…

Choosing Your Testing Engine

INFOGRAPHIC

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.
What's in Your Detection Toolkit? A Checklist

INFO SHEET

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. 

6 Reasons Your Certification Program Needs Data Forensics

INFOGRAPHIC

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. 

4 Reasons Your Testing Program Needs a Quality Assurance Check

INFOGRAPHIC

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.
Are Proctors Enough? What to Consider

INFO SHEET

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.

The SmartItem™ Ebook: Stop Test Fraud, Improve Fairness, & Upgrade the Way You Test

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. 

Quality Assurance for Remote Testing by Caveon

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. 

SmartItem™ Booklet: An Overview of the SmartItem

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.

Caveon AIG: Automated Item Generation

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.

JIT Data Forensics

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