Abstract
We present a psychometric evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment (CCA), completed by 193 students from seven colleges and universities. The CCA builds on our prior work developing and validating a Cybersecurity Concept Inventory (CCI), which measures students' conceptual understanding of cybersecurity after a first course in the area. The CCA deepens the conceptual complexity and technical depth expectations, assessing conceptual knowledge of students who had completed multiple courses in cybersecurity. We review our development of the CCA and present our evaluation of the instrument using Classical Test Theory and Item-Response Theory. The CCA is a difficult assessment, providing reliable measurements of student knowledge and deeper information about high-performing students.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 228-234 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450394314 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2023 - Toronto, Canada Duration: Mar 15 2023 → Mar 18 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education |
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| Volume | 1 |
Conference
| Conference | 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Toronto |
| Period | 3/15/23 → 3/18/23 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- classical test theory
- concept inventories
- cybersecurity assessment tools (cats)
- cybersecurity curriculum assessment
- cybersecurity education
- item response theory
- psychometrics