3 papers
cs.CR2020
Experiences and Lessons Learned Creating and Validating Concept Inventories for Cybersecurity
Alan T. Sherman, Geoffrey L. Herman, Linda Oliva +5
We reflect on our ongoing journey in the educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) Project to create two concept inventories for cybersecurity. We identify key steps in thi…
cs.HC2019
Investigating Crowdsourcing to Generate Distractors for Multiple-Choice Assessments
Travis Scheponik, Enis Golaszewski, Geoffrey Herman +4
We present and analyze results from a pilot study that explores how crowdsourcing can be used in the process of generating distractors (incorrect answer choices) in multiple-choice…
cs.CR2019
The CATS Hackathon: Creating and Refining Test Items for Cybersecurity Concept Inventories
Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, Enis Golaszewski +12
For two days in February 2018, 17 cybersecurity educators and professionals from government and industry met in a "hackathon" to refine existing draft multiple-choice test items, a…