Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum AssessmentIn-Person
We present a psychometric evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment (CCA), completed by 194 students from 7 colleges and universities. The CCA builds on our prior work developing and validating a Cybersecurity Concept Inventory (CCI), which measured students’ conceptual understanding of cybersecurity after a first course in the area. The CCA deepens the conceptual complexity and technical depth expectations, aiming to assess conceptual knowledge of students who had completed a multi-course curriculum in cybersecurity. We briefly present our development of the CCA before presenting our evaluation of the instrument using Classical Test Theory and Item-Response Theory. The CCA is a difficult assessment, providing reliable measurements of students’ knowledge and deeper information about high performing students.
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13:45 25mPaper | Cyber Arena: An Open-Source Solution for Scalable Cybersecurity Labs in the CloudIn-Person Papers Philip Huff University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Sandra Leiterman University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Jan Springer University of Arkansas at Little Rock DOI | ||
14:10 25mPaper | Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum AssessmentIn-Person Papers Geoffrey Herman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Shan Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Peter Peterson University of Minnesota Duluth, Linda Oliva University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Enis Golaszewski University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Alan Sherman University of Maryland, Baltimore County DOI |