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Ignite
Developing Innovative Assessment Solutions Using Agile Methodologies
Help – Nobody Knows About My Great New Credential! Ignite the Fuse on Promoting Your Efforts.
Ignite. Serve. Lead. The ATP Volunteer Experience
Multiple Choices, One Common Theme: Careers in Assessment
Ready, Set, Go! Trends, Strategies, and More in 20 Seconds or Less!
Panel Discussion
Advanced Exam Security: A Panel on Real-World Detection and Response
AI at the Crossroads: Expert Insights on What to Build, Pause, and Reject
AI: A Workforce Friend or Foe?
AI Transformation: Rethinking Learning, Assessment Development, Scoring, and Test Security in Asia
Are AI Agents Coming for Your Exam? Understanding Technology Threats and Countermeasures
ASAP: Advice on Finding Success as an Ascending Professional/Program
Assessment Innovation: Practical Tools to Enhance Validity, Feedback, and Scale
ATP Security Committee Presents: Generative AI and Test Security – Mission Impossible?
Beyond Automation: The AI-Driven Transformation of Assessment
Beyond the Badge: Unlocking Lifelong Engagement Through Credential Retention
Boots on the Ground & Plans in the Cloud: The Value of Training & Incident preparedness.
Building the Business of Innovation: Partnering Across the Ecosystem to Scale Smarter
Competency-Based, Career-Ready: Building Lifelong Learning Programs That Evolve with the Workforce
Creating Effective Test Security and AI Governance Structures
Deep Breaths and Deepfakes: How to Reduce Test Anxiety and Still Protect Your Exam
Does AI “Get” Credentialing?
Don't Forget About QUAL-ity: Using Qualitative Methods to Bolster Equity
From Aspiration to Optimization: A Longitudinal Assessment Journey Across Organizations
From Checkpoints to Compasses: Reimagining Assessment as a Pathway to Purpose
From Clicks to Bricks: Mitigation Through Automated Modality Restrictions of High-Risk Test-Takers
From Good to Great: Leveraging SMEs for Exceptional Exam Quality
Future-Proofing Your Credential: Building Early Awareness Through Youth Engagement
Generative AI in Test Development and Beyond: Continuing the Conversation
Humans in the Driver's Seat: Effective Oversight of AI-based Assessment Tools
Language Assessment: Leading the Way in Innovations
Legal Eagle Update and Q&A
Modernizing with Purpose: Strategies to Reconnect with Today's Test Takers
Public Health and Safety as a Core Assessment Design Principle
Rebrand or Risk Irrelevance: Making the Call That Counts
Sparking Innovative New Product Design in Assessment
Strategic Synergy: Turning Vendor Partnerships into Power Moves
Strength in Community: How Stakeholder Engagement Builds Better Credentialing Programs
Stronger Together: The Value of Advocacy for the Testing Industry
Testing for Equity: Global Perspectives on Gender, Assessment, and Opportunity
The Convergence of Learning and Assessment: Accelerating the Future with AI
The Hands-On Revolution: Performance-Based Testing Takes Center Stage
There Is More Than One Way to JTA!
Touching the Future: Building Inclusive Assessments with Tactile Graphics and Technology Integration
Training the Machines: What It Takes to Build a Good AI Standardized Patient
Trust Is Not a Given: Why Assessment Must Prove Its Value Again
Peas & Possibilities Discussion
Can You Trust What You See? Combating Deepfakes in The Era of AI-driven Test Fraud
Credentialing Under Siege: Fighting Back Against the Cheating Economy
How to Approach Adopting the Possibilities of AI If You’ve Been Hesitant to Make the Leap
Making a Change to Item Types on Your Exam? Discuss Lessons Learned
Peas and Probabilities – The State of the AI-ssessment Union
Resilience in Action: Empowering People, Advancing Progress, and Unlocking Possibilities
Rethinking Approaches to Certification and Licensure Maintenance
SME Engagement in the AI Era: Motivation, Innovation, and Organizational Readiness
Testing as Gateway or Gatekeeper? Ensuring Fair Access for All
The Art of Making Content Outlines, A Roundtable Discussion
The Big Validity Game
Unlocking Revenue Streams in the Certification Ecosystem
Post Conference Workshop
Post Conference Workshop: Accessibility in Exam Delivery: Creating Valid Exams that Work for All Test Takers
Post Conference Workshop: Beyond the Bubble: An Introduction to Performance-Based Assessments
Post Conference Workshop: Demystifying Test Development: Guidelines, Best Practices, and Standards
Post Conference Workshop: Level up and Lead: Evolve Your Marketing for a Rapidly Changing Assessment Industry
Presentation
Accessibility by Design: Bridging Student and Educator Needs in Digital Assessment Tools
Advancing Assessment Validity: Investigating Alternative Item Types Across Testing Contexts
Adventures in Usability: Practical Tips for Familiar and Novel Applications
A Novel Innovative Item Type for Certification Exams: The Generated Response Option
Assessment Trends in Europe
Balancing Speed and Validity: Strategies for Accelerated Assessment Development
Balancing the Pillars: Operational Improvements, Content Validity, and Stakeholder Impact
Beyond the Black Box: Putting AI Scoring and Evaluation Methods to the Test to the Test
Credit where Credit is Due: Celebrating Learner Achievements Through College Credit
Crisis to Confidence: Rebuilding an Exposed Exam with AI Support
DIFferent Uses of DIF
Does Leveraging Large Language Models Make More Interesting and Incredible Items?
Enhancing Exam Maintenance in the Agile Era
Enhancing Item Development with AI: Automating Rationales and Classification
Enhancing the Exam Development Process: Best Practices Informed by I/O Psychology
Evolving Security Strategies for Flexible Assessment Environments
“First, Do No Harm”: Assessing Professional Judgment in High-Stakes Examinations
From "Let's Go!" to "Launch!" - Lessons Learned on the Path to a New Certification
From Paper to Digital: Item Transformation and the Role of AI in NYSED’s Transition to Digital Item Banking
From Pilot to Practice: Implementing AI for Test Form Creation
From Test Prep to Candidate Success: AI’s role in Next Generation Credentialing
Gathering Evidence of Misconduct – 21st Century Techniques for Exam Security Investigations
How Do You Measure Up? A Look at Credentialing Team Structures Across the Industry
Improving Learning & Completion Rates using Groundbreaking AI-powered Feedback at Scale
Intentional Design: IMproving Exam Development Through Cultural Awareness
Let AI be the Judge? Rating the Success of Automated Item Review
Leveraging LLMs for Item Generation in Specialized Assessment Domains
Maximizing the ITC/ATP Guidelines: From Practice to Innovation
Merging Disciplines, Preserving Rigor: Building a Dual-Discipline Performance Exam
Predicting and Evaluating Item Responses Using Machine Learning, Text Embeddings, and LLMs
Preparing a 24-Hour Performance Test for Accreditation under ANSI and US DoD Standards
President Trump's DEI Executive Orders and their Impact on Testing Bodies
Process Over Panic: Managing Security Incidents in Online Proctoring
Progress with the Angoff Standard Setting Methodology
Public Enemy #1: Operational and Technical Considerations in Automating Enemy Item Detection
Real World AI – Technology, Regulations, and Organizational Impact
Rebuilding the Bar: How a Legacy Licensing Exam Became a Modern Product
Reimagining Assessment: A Human-Centered, Culturally Responsive Approach
Reimagining the Candidate Journey Through Learner-Centric Credentialing
Smart Standard Setting: Data Visualization, Automated Preparation, and AI Validation
Strategies for SMEs: How to Wrangle Expert Minds Without Losing Yours
Tackling Certification Test Development in High-Stakes Healthcare with AI-Enhanced Item Generation
The Next Wave of Performance Testing: VR and AI
The What, How, and What Now: Case Studies in Test Security Breaches, Response, and Recovery
Transforming Assessment: Insights from Three Programs on the Longitudinal Journey
Transforming Assessment: Using AI to Scale Dialogue in Speaking Tests
Transforming Credentialing: Integrating Soft Skills for a Future-ready Workforce
Wait, am I the problem? Why you’re not getting a great response to your RFP
When Online Isn't Enough: Transitioning Back to In-Person Event-Based Testing
Snapshots
A New SME Agent
Artificially Generated Items: Shepherding the Next Generation of Subject-Matter Experts
Beyond Right or Wrong: The Future of Assessment is Multi-modal Adaptivity
Beyond the Numbers: What Can you Detect with Data Forensics and What Does it Mean?
Breaking Barriers: Creating a more augmented, accessible and inclusive digital testing experience
Building Better Assessments Together: Inclusive Strategies for Engaging Subject Matter Experts
Building Success with Accessible Tests
Call and Response: How a Large-Scale Assessment Organization Prioritized Indigenous Reconciliation
Embedding Cultural Humility in Assessment: A Novel SME-Driven Approach to Inclusive Exam Development
Fix it, Fine tune it, Overhaul it: Boosting Your Examination Performance with CQI Tools
From Filler to Function: Tuning AI-Generated Distractors with Human Insight and Field Data
Live Remote Proctoring vs. Test Centers: Analyzing Pass Rates and Test-Taker Selection Bias
Mathematics Proficiency Test: A Model for Scalable, Inclusive Certification in Ontario, Canada
Preliminary Learnings from the Launch of a New Exam and New Exam Model
Proven Strategies for Reducing the Test Development Timeline: Full exam development in 4 months
Putting Pieces Together: Ability Distribution, Cut Score Location, and Classification Accuracy
Reconciling Theory and Practice in Form Assembly: Information Maximization and Form Fidelity
Self-Assessment to Gatekeeper: How Stakeholder Demands Transformed an Assessment Program
Self-Discovery Maps: A Psychology-Informed, AI-Enhanced Alternative to Tests and Checklists
Smarter, Faster, Aligned: Using AI to Power Exam Blueprint Development and Implementation
The Human Reboot: Why Opting Out of AI Might Be the Next Consumer Revolution
Training Subject Matter Experts in a Human-AI Hybrid Approach to Writing Assessment Items
Transforming Emergency Medicine Assessment Through Stakeholder Engagement and Innovation
Transforming Media Libraries: AI-Powered Image Search and Auto-Tagging for Scale
Universal Delivery: Examining a New Standard for Multi-Device Exam Delivery
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