Pre-Conference Workshops

Governance Excellence for Certifying Organizations
Category: Credentialing Administration
Speaker: TBD

This ICE workshop will provide a focused look at governance principles for members of a certification governing body or committee. In addition to providing an overview of what great governance is and how to build great governing teams, this workshop will help you as governing board or committee members determine the critical success factors of your board or committee, and help you to define your desired leadership characteristics. This is a great training session for first-time and seasoned governing board/committee members and staff. Lunch will be served. Limited registration will be available for attendees at this session only, immediately prior to session.

Afternoon Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday, November 16
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Researching Certification to Advance Industry Practices
Level: New to Credentialing, Management, and CEO/Director
Track: Credentialing Administration
Speakers: James Henderson, PhD; Shannon Willison, MA; Ida Darragh, CPM, LM

Participants will learn about cutting edge research into topics that have significance for their organizations. Members of the ICE Research and Development Committee will present on the following three initiatives completed during 2010: (1) Development of several tools grounded in literature on the value of certification that organizations can use, along with the strategy and results of pilot testing. (2) Results from the ICE job analysis for the credentialing professional. (3) Summary of current research benchmarking best practices relative to NCCA Standards that will assist in evaluating credentialing organization’s programs.

Test Security Strategies – Prevention, Investigation and Enforcement

Level: Management
Track: Testing
Speakers: A. Benjamin Mannes, SSI, CHS-III; Chad W. Buckendahl, PhD; Mark Poole, CISSP, CIPP/IT; Jennifer Ancona Semko, JD

Evaluating test security concerns requires policy, legal, technology and psychometric expertise to inform programmatic action. This interactive workshop brings together industry experts in policy development, measurement, technology and the law to provide insights into strategies and best practices for test security. Each hour will address a theme – prevention, investigation, enforcement – from a multi-disciplinary perspective, wherein a panel presentation will precede breakout discussions in four areas: policy development; applied psychometrics;security technologies; and legal strategies.Questions that will be addressed include: What unique considerations do credentialing programs face in implementing measures to promote test security? What policies,procedures and legal options should be implemented to facilitate improved outcomes in prevention, investigation and enforcement? What can be learned about security breaches through regular data analysis, and how can results obtained from such analyses be more easily communicated to stakeholders to inform policy development and practice? What benefits may be gained from utilizing security technologies such as biometrics, surveillance and real-time forensic analysis? And what are the legal obligations and remedies when responding to security breaches and enforcing rights against exam pirates and test takers?