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Thu 16 Mar 2023 14:10 - 14:35 at 701A - Teaching and Assessing Cybersecurity Chair(s): Reza Jafari

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.

Thu 16 Mar

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13:45 - 15:00
Teaching and Assessing CybersecurityPapers at 701A
Chair(s): Reza Jafari Virginia Tech, USA
13:45
25m
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Cyber Arena: An Open-Source Solution for Scalable Cybersecurity Labs in the CloudIn-Person
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Philip Huff University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Sandra Leiterman University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Jan Springer University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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14:10
25m
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum AssessmentIn-PersonCER Best Paper
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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
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