Resources — Alpine Testing Solutions

Effortlessly Set Candidate Communication Language Preferences with CM Connect-Credly Integration

Press release2024

ATP 2024 - Navigating the Testing Program Maze: Expert Guidance on Item Writing, Psychometrics, Data Management, and Test Security

1 min readMarch 2024

ATP 2024 - Quicker to Quality: Leveraging the Right Technology at the Right Time to Optimize Exam Development

1 min readMarch 2024

ATP 2024 - Multi-Vendor Partnerships: Better Together

1 min readMarch 2024

ATP 2024 - Know Thy Enemy... Items. And the Variants, Too!

1 min readMarch 2024

ATP 2024 - Sifting (Items) & Shifting (Processes): Streamlining Content Review

1 min readMarch 2024

ATP 2024 - Reconsidering the Firewall: Translating Domain Analyses into Training Frameworks

1 min readMarch 2024

Badging Options for Alpine Testing Solutions’ Partner Programs Continue to Expand

Press release2023

Optimizing Continuing Education Processes: A Deep Dive into CM Connect Capabilities

I.C.E. 2023 - Smooth Sailing: Mastering Asynchronous Item Writing and Review to Keep Your Program Afloat

1 min readOctober 2023

I.C.E. 2023 - Advancements in Job Analysis and Content Outline Development

1 min readOctober 2023

I.C.E. 2023 - Empowering Excellence: Continuing Education in the Digital Age with CM Connect

1 min readOctober 2023

Alpine Facilitates October 2023 ATP New World of Testing Webinar

1 min readOctober 2023

Using CM Connect to Unlock the Future of Candidate Engagement!

ATP 2023 - Real World Implementations of Two Data Forensics Indices: Approximation Response and Score Similarity Analyses

1 min readMarch 2023

ATP 2023 - Security Simplified: Decoding Data Forensics into Enforceable Evidence

1 min readMarch 2023

ATP 2023 - Integrating Cultural Humility and Mindfulness in Test Item Writing

1 min readMarch 2023

ATP 2023 - Are My Exam Items Really Biased? Bringing DEIA to the Forefront

1 min readMarch 2023

Alpine Testing Solutions & Strasz Assessment Systems Announce Synergistic Partnership

Press release2023

A Simple Method to Detect Score Similarity and Practical Implications for Its Use

13 min readJanuary 2023

Six Credentialing Programs and a Crystal Ball

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Alpine’s Modernized Approach to Technology

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Intelligent Technology-Enabled Exam Development: Quicker to Quality Items with i-SFT

COTS 2022 - Visualizing the Prevalence of Collusion/Content Exposure in the Testing Population

1 min readNovember 2022

COTS 2022 - A Comparison of an Approximation Score Similarity Index to Other Similarity Indices

1 min readNovember 2022

COTS 2022 - Approximation Score Similarity Index (aSSI) Analysis: An Analysis of its Effectiveness Compared to True Score Similarity Index

1 min readNovember 2022

I.C.E. 2022 - Simplifying Security: Deciphering Data Forensics into Accessible Actions

2 min readOctober 2022

I.C.E. 2022 - Small but Mighty: Combining Smaller Assessments to Enhance Overall Reliability

1 min readOctober 2022

I.C.E. 2022 - Client vs. Vendor Showdown: On the spot questions from client to vendor and vendor to client about the Analysis of Practice study. Who will survive?

2 min readOctober 2022

I.C.E. 2022 - Quicker to Quality: Technology-Enabled Content Review with i-SFT

1 min readOctober 2022

E-ATP 2022 - Authentic Items, Authentic Answers and the Application of AI for Both

1 min readOctober 2022

Adobe Optimizes Candidate Experience with SSO & Streamlines Certification Program Operations

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Providing Program Solutions & Improving Candidate Journey with SSO & the Scheduling Page

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Alpine Facilitates August 2022 ATP New World of Testing Webinar

Security Simplified, Part II

Security Simplified, Part I

Brett Foley, Ph.D. Awarded NCARB President’s Medal for Distinguished Service

Press release2022

Security…It’s a Big Deal at Alpine & at Audit Liaison

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At Kinaxis Digital Badging Momentum is Building ROI Via CM Connect & Credly

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NCME 2022 - Cheating Detection: A Collaborative Case Study Using IT Certification Exams

1 min readMay 2022

ATP 2022 - No News is Good News – The Advantages of Automated Security Monitoring

1 min readApril 2022

ATP 2022 - Crowdsourced Item Generation: Practical Considerations and Strategies to Harness the Power of Your Credential Holders (and Others!)

1 min readApril 2022

ATP 2022 - Select Your Own Certification Path: A Case Study of Program Design (Part 2)

1 min readApril 2022

The CM Connect™ Solution Set is Expanding

5 min readMarch 2022

Making the Switch From 4-Option to 3-Option Multiple Choice Items Without Pretesting: Case Study and Results

8 min readDecember 2021

Serving as a Psychometrician and Public Board Member: A Q&A With Brett Foley, PhD

Press release2021

Lineup and CM Connect Partnering to Bring SME Talent to the Table

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NCARB Analysis of Practice: Reinventing & Rebuilding from the Ground Up

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1Strategy - AWS Architecture and Networking Proof of Concept: A Case Study with Alpine Testing Solutions

Press release2021

I.C.E. 2021 - CM Connect 2.0 – Manage Your Candidate, Credential, and Exam Data

1 min readNovember 2021

I.C.E. 2021 - Remote Proctoring and Security: What Have We Learned?

1 min readNovember 2021

I.C.E. 2021 - Integrating Decision-makers into the Standard Setting Process: A How-to for Licensure and Certification

1 min readNovember 2021

Adventures in Crowdsourcing & Other Asynchronous Exam Development

"2.0” Has Launched!

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NVIDIA’s Distributed Exam Development During Lockdown Includes Crowdsourcing Element

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Alpine Facilitates July 2021 ATP New World of Testing Webinar

An ‘Excitement for Research’: A Q&A With Dennis Spence

Press release2021

Deep Dive Into Test Security - Session II

Deep Dive Into Test Security - Session I

How Early Learning Indiana Supports Training and Workforce Development with Assessments

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Facebook's Ingenious Recert Strategy Via CM Connect Challenges the Status Quo

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A Computationally Simple Method for Estimating Decision Consistency

Press release2021

ATP 2021 - Select Your Own Certification Path: A Case Study of Program Design

1 min readMay 2021

ATP 2021 - Exam Security and COVID-19: Practical Concerns and Strategies to Address Them

1 min readMay 2021

ATP 2021 - When Beta Forms AND Beta Samples Differ: Hitting the Unlucky Lottery?

1 min readApril 2021

ATP 2021 - Converting 4‐Option to 3‐Option Multiple Choice Questions Without Pretesting! Case Study Results

1 min readApril 2021

ATP 2021 - Candidate and Credential Management – How Far It’s Come, and Where is It Going?

1 min readApril 2021

SAS Capitalizes on Data Integrity & Data Driven Marketing via CM Connect & the Affiliation Module

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CM Connect™ Affiliation Module

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NCARB Finds Sweet Spot Between Virtual and In-person Exam Development During Pandemic

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Diverse Company Cultures Lead to New Virtual Approaches in Facilitation

Worth the Squeeze? An Investigation into the Psychometric Performance of Alternative Item Types

Press release2021

ABNS 2021 - Supersizing Your SMEs’ Output (and Satisfaction!) in a Virtual Environment

1 min readMarch 2021

NCME Webinar 2021 - Unmasking Equating Challenges in Licensure and Certification

I.C.E. 2020 - Basics of Psychometrics: Deciphering "It Depends”

1 min readDecember 2020

Forging Ahead to Maximize New Solutions

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Facebook’s Certification Program is Evolving, Thriving, & Driving Meaningful Impact

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I.C.E. 2020 - Converting 4-Option Multiple Choice Questions to 3-Option and Integrating Both into Your Exam

1 min readDecember 2020

I.C.E. 2020 - Job Analysis Survey Instruction Length and Response Rate - A Case Study

1 min readDecember 2020

I.C.E. Virtual Exchange Preview: Converting 4-Option Multiple Choice Questions

Press release2020

Lessons Learned From Virtual Test Development Meetings

Press release2020

Security Considerations for the Changing Workforce Environment

Press release2020

ATP 2020 - What does it Take to Migrate to a New Candidate Management System?

1 min readOctober 2020

ATP 2020 - Juggling Operational Realities and Organizational Requests: Improving High-Quality Programs

1 min readOctober 2020

ATP 2020 - Item Bank Hygiene: Is Your Item Bank Squeaky Clean or Is There Dirt in the Crevices?

1 min readOctober 2020

PMI Embraces Virtual Exam Development Activities During Covid-19 Pandemic

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How Adobe Protects the Investments of Candidates Via Technology

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Psychometric Perspectives on Remote Proctoring

10 min readJune 2020

IHS Supports Candidates Success with Practice Exams via Test Run

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How Dell Technologies Solved Certification Reporting Challenges with “Wicked Efficient” Tagging in CM Connect

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Remote Proctoring, Part II – Psychometric Q&A

Remote Proctoring – A Psychometric Approach

Expanding Badging Opportunities via the Credly-Alpine Partnership

Alpine Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification

Press release2020

How Kinaxis is Building Opportunities for Candidates Via CM Connect & Credly Badging

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F5 Networks Certification Going the Extra Mile with Equated Practice Exams

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Integrating Policymakers into the Standard Setting Process: Licensure and Certification Perspectives

Alpine Debuts New Cheating Detection Method at Test Security Conference

2 min readDecember 2019

How Esri Redesigned Their Certification Program to Increase Adoption and Sustainability

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Developing Content for Credentialing Exams – An Item Writing Mindset

I.C.E. Exchange 2019 - Using Foil Tasks to Identify and Screen Careless Job Analysis Survey Respondents

1 min readDecember 2019

I.C.E. Exchange 2019 - Item Bank Hygiene: Is Your Item Bank Squeaky Clean or is There Dirt in the Crevices?

1 min readNovember 2019

I.C.E. Exchange 2019 - Easy to Hard, Hard to Easy, Organized by Content: Does Item Order Matter on a Credentialing Exam?

1 min readNovember 2019

COTS 2019 - Comparing B3 to Answer Similarity Index for Detecting Collusion

1 min readOctober 2019

COTS 2019 - Collusion Detection Using an Extension of Yen’s Q3 Statistic

1 min readOctober 2019

CM Connect Advanced Reporting and Visualization Module

2 min readAugust 2019

How CompTIA Is Using Real-time Interactions to Inform Key Decisions

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Test Maintenance & Security: When, Not If

When is fast too fast? Setting score and time thresholds for credentialing programs

1 min readMay 2019

How Juniper Networks Engages Certification Candidates Long Term

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CM Connect™ Standings Module

2 min readMay 2019

How CompTIA Provides Stakeholders with Career Pathways

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Advanced Reporting for Test Sponsors with CM Connect

NCME 2019 - When is fast too fast? Setting score and time thresholds for credentialing programs

1 min readApril 2019

NCME 2019 - Worth the Squeeze? An Investigation into the Psychometric Performance of Innovative Item Types

1 min readApril 2019

ATP 2019 - Badges AND Certifications

1 min readApril 2019

ATP 2019 - Eyes on the Future - Alpine Platinum Session

1 min readApril 2019

Alpine Announces Expansion into K-12 Education Market

Press release2019

Designing and Redesigning Credentialing Programs and Exams

Accreditation: Considerations and Avoiding Pitfalls

JTAs: Building a Bridge from Job Role to Credentialing Exam

ICE 2018 - Eyes on the Future: Monitoring Your Exam, Program, Audience, and Industry

1 min readFebruary 2019

ICE 2018 - Do Innovative Item Types Really Work?

1 min readFebruary 2019

CM Connect™ Benefits Feature

1 min readFebruary 2019

Interested in Fairness Issues in Multiple Choice Items?

Press release2019

How VMware Streamlined their Certification Candidate Experience

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Alpine and Lineup Announce Plan for Integration

Press release2018

Test Health Checks: Are Your Tests Tired?

Validating Certifications with Data Science: Facts or Fiction?

1 min readMarch 2018

Adding Value to Testing: Innovations in Case Studies

1 min readMarch 2018

The Architecture and Lasting Impression of Program Design

1 min readMarch 2018

A Framework for Systematically Integrating Policymakers into the Standard Setting Process

1 min readMarch 2018

When Setting the Standard is Not So Standard: Addressing Challenges in Recertification Standard Setting

1 min readMarch 2018

Job Analysis Considerations For Multi-Tiered Credentialing Programs

1 min readMarch 2018

Learning Strategies: Your Guide to Classroom and Test-Taking Success

1 min readMarch 2018

Study Manual for the Health Occupations Basic Entrance Examination – Version V

1 min readMarch 2018

Multiple Attempts on a Nursing Admissions Examination: Effects on the Total Score

1 min readMarch 2018

Evaluating Common Item Block Options When Faced With Practical Constraints

1 min readMarch 2018

Releasing Content to Deter Cheating: An Analysis of the Impact on Candidate Performance

1 min readMarch 2018

Calculator Simulations and Theoretical Results For a Few Favorite Probability Activities

1 min readMarch 2018

Geometry Activities

1 min readMarch 2018

Hands on Statistics Activities

1 min readMarch 2018

Gender Influences on Mathematical Problem Solving: The Impact of an Interaction Framework on Problem-Solving Abilities of Sixth-Grade Boys and Girls in an Urban School

1 min readMarch 2018

When to Test: Before or After Lunch? Before or After Spring Break? Tuesday or Friday?

1 min readMarch 2018

A Method for Simulating Supplied Response Options for Multiple-Choice Tests

1 min readMarch 2018

An Analysis of the Time and Day of the Week That Students Perform Best on Assessments

1 min readMarch 2018

A Meta-Analysis of Research on Repeated Attempts at an Assessment

1 min readMarch 2018

If At First You Don’t Succeed: An Analysis and Interpretation of Candidate Retake Response Patterns

2 min readMarch 2018

Does Your Approach to Delivery Matter? An Update on Publication Strategies

1 min readMarch 2018

Exam Security Issues: Legal, Psychometric, and Administrative Perspectives

1 min readMarch 2018

Evaluating Common Item Block Options When Faced with Practical Constraints

1 min readMarch 2018

Closing the Loop: Providing Test Developers with Performance Level Descriptors so Standard Setters Can Do Their Job

1 min readMarch 2018

Have a Test Development Question? Ask a Panel of Dueling Psychometricians.

1 min readMarch 2018

The Effect of Number of Rating Scales on Response Rate, Response Error, and Reliability for Credentialing Job Analysis Surveys

1 min readMarch 2018

Certification vs. Assessment-based Certificates: Navigating the Fine Line

1 min readMarch 2018

Score Reporting: Where Policy Meets Psychometrics (Whitepaper)

1 min readMarch 2018

Meeting NCCA Standard 3 in Terms of Autonomy and Impartiality: Can Education and Certification Exist Under the Same Roof?

1 min readMarch 2018

A Cognitive Demand Classification Framework for Credentialing Test Items

1 min readMarch 2018

Developing Test Forms for Small-Scale Achievement Testing Systems

1 min readMarch 2018

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Equating vs. Standard Setting for New Test Forms with Limited Sample Sizes

1 min readMarch 2018

Maintaining Equivalent Classification Decisions Across Forms with Small Samples

1 min readMarch 2018

Montessori Teacher Preparation: A New Perspective

1 min readMarch 2018

Practice Analysis for Early Childhood Montessori Teachers

1 min readMarch 2018

Creating Achievement Level Descriptors with Subject Matter Experts in an Online Environment

1 min readMarch 2018

Value of an independent review

4 min readSeptember 2017

Alpine's headed to Hungary...for E-ATP

Press release2017

Security: it’s about validity!

2 min readSeptember 2017

Analysis of the Discrete Option Multiple Choice Item: Examples from IT Certification

1 min readSeptember 2017

AU April Webinar: What's in Your Program Toolbox?

Face-to-face or from Afar? In-person vs. Virtual Item Writing

Critical Policies and Procedures for Test and Item Security

Visual Displays: Design Principles for Testing Programs

Score Reporting: Where Policy Meets Psychometrics (Presentation)

1 min readSeptember 2017

Small-Scale Credentialing Programs: Balancing Security, Fairness, and Candidate-Friendliness

1 min readSeptember 2017

Fast-tracking New Item Types into an Existing Exam: Using Cognitive Labs to Evaluate Item Types and Inform Decisions

1 min readSeptember 2017

Presentation from the 2015 ICE Exchange

1 min readSeptember 2017

Copyright Issues in Test Development

Don't Fear the Audit!

Badges and Profit

Maximizing Exam Security through & Susceptibility of Various Item Types

2 min readSeptember 2017

Item Pool Maintenance-Measuring, Monitoring, and Improving Pool Quality

2 min readSeptember 2017

Subscores: Relevance and Reporting

2 min readSeptember 2017

Don't Be Late to the Game - Security Should Not Be An Afterthought

1 min readSeptember 2017

The Top 5 Mistakes in Performance Testing (and how to avoid them)

1 min readSeptember 2017

Dr. Brett Foley

3 min readSeptember 2017

Policies and Procedures for the Independent Evaluation of Educational Assessment Programs

1 min readSeptember 2017

Item Pool Security: What Options Are Available

1 min readSeptember 2017

Ask A Psychometrician: Psychometric Analyses & Operations

1 min readSeptember 2017

Score Reporting Best Practices Presentation

1 min readSeptember 2017

Multiple Standard Setting Outcomes: Empirical Exercises Informing Theory

1 min readSeptember 2017

Best Practices for Providing Meaninful Feedback to Examinees

1 min readSeptember 2017

Evaluating the Impact of an Intentional Item Release

2 min readSeptember 2017

Washington: Comprehensive to End-of-Course and Back Again

1 min readSeptember 2017

Susceptibility of Performance Items Paper

1 min readSeptember 2017

Susceptibility of Performance Items Presentation

1 min readSeptember 2017

Improving Exam Security With Performance Items: Knowing is Doing

1 min readSeptember 2017

Applying Lessons Learned in Educational Score Reporting to Credentialing

1 min readSeptember 2017

Addressing Security Concerns Through Psychometrics

1 min readSeptember 2017

Section Level Exam Development In Response To Rapidly Changing Content Domains

1 min readSeptember 2017

Candidate Management Migration – Is it worth it?

7 min readSeptember 2017

ICE- Score Reporting: More Than Just Pass/Fail

1 min readSeptember 2017

Think Before You Jump

1 min readSeptember 2017

Trends and Solutions

1 min readSeptember 2017

Extending the Role of Psychometrics in Integrated Security Plans

1 min readSeptember 2017

E-ATP: Starting a Performance Based Testing Program: From Inception to Delivery

1 min readSeptember 2017

NCME: A Practitioner’s Guide to Validation Framework Development

1 min readSeptember 2017

NCME: Using Visual Displays to Inform Assessment Design and Development

1 min readSeptember 2017

NCME: Item Writers as Standard Setting Panelists: Does Prior Experience Matter?

1 min readSeptember 2017

NCME: Extending Differential Person and Item Functioning to Aid in the Maintenance of Exposed Exams

1 min readSeptember 2017

Protecting the Integrity and Security of Your Credential Program

1 min readSeptember 2017

ATP: Examining the Validity of Assessments Administered in Multiple Languages

1 min readSeptember 2017

ATP: Developing the CISCO CCDEp Exam: A Case Study in Developing an IT Performance Test

1 min readSeptember 2017

Value-Added Models in the Evaluation of Teacher Effectiveness: A Comparison of Models and Outcomes

1 min readSeptember 2017

Implementing a Robust Credential Management Solution

1 min readSeptember 2017

CM Connect-When What and How of Credential Management

1 min readSeptember 2017

Whats Next-Evaluating and Updating Your Certification Testing Program

1 min readSeptember 2017

Enhancing Test Development Through Digital Technology-Blended and Distributed Modes of Validation

1 min readSeptember 2017

Detecting Suspect Examinees: An Application of Differential Person Functioning Analysis

1 min readSeptember 2017

An Empirical Evaluation of Using Domain Critical Errors in a Performance Assessment

1 min readSeptember 2017

Using the Results of Multiple Standard Setting Methods to Inform Policy

1 min readSeptember 2017

Realistic Expectations-State-level Changes in the Percentage of Proficient Students 2002-2008

1 min readSeptember 2017

Making Sense of the Metrics: Student Growth, Value-added Models, and Teacher Effectiveness

1 min readSeptember 2017

Teacher Effectiveness Measures: The Tortoise and the Hare

1 min readSeptember 2017

Readability of Credentialing Examination Materials-Evaluating a Proposed Measurement Model

1 min readSeptember 2017

Investigating Alternative Approaches for Analyzing Item-Task Model Data

1 min readSeptember 2017

A Standards Based Integrated Test Development and Validation Model

1 min readSeptember 2017

A Practical Approach to Balancing Time Demands Across Test Forms

1 min readSeptember 2017

Developing A Validity Framework

1 min readSeptember 2017

Using a Performance Test Development and Validation Framework

1 min readSeptember 2017

Cross Validation Modified Angoff and Bookmark Standard Setting for a Home Inspection Certification

1 min readSeptember 2017

TestMetrics: User Friendly Tools for Test Analysis, Standard Setting and Reporting

1 min readSeptember 2017

Investigating Response Time in Improving Test Design and Analysis

1 min readSeptember 2017

Alpine and Acclaim Announce Strategic Partnership

Press release2017

Accessibility and Exam Security: Competitors or Collaborators?

7 min readDecember 2016

Au June Webinar: All About Health Checks

ATP 2016 - Psychometrics of Online Proctoring (OP): Comparing OP and Test-Center Deliveries

1 min readMarch 2016

Happy New Year! Together, we'll make it great.

2 min readJanuary 2016

Happy Holidays from Team Alpine!

2 min readDecember 2015

Leave it to the Experts: Can Item Writing Success be Predicted?

Alpine Testing Solutions Launches Innovative Badging and Transcript Features

2 min readJuly 2015

I get it! I know security is important but now what?

Alpine Testing Solutions and edCount to Conduct Independent Verification of the Psychometric Validity of the Florida Standards Assessment

Press release2015

Security Risk Assessment

4 min readMarch 2015

Test Security – Strategies for Prevention

3 min readMarch 2015

Alpine launches into ATP 2015

3 min readFebruary 2015

Monitoring Exam Data With Your Credential Management System

How Many Response Options are Enough?

3 min readSeptember 2014

Alpine at ITC 2014

Press release2014

Alpine to Attend CCSSO 2014

Press release2014

Alpine at ATP 2014

Press release2014

Certifications vs. Assessment-based Certificates – Understanding the Difference

3 min readFebruary 2014

Alpine to Present at ICE

Press release2013

Alpine to present at 2nd Annual Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud Conference

Press release2013

Brett Foley, Ph.D., receives NRMERA's Early Career Award

Press release2013

ARE 5.0 Begins to Take Form

Press release2013

Alpine at E-ATP

Press release2013

Brett Foley, Ph.D. named NCME Website Editor

Press release2013

NCME: Extending Differential Person and Item Functioning to Aid in Maintenance

1 min readJanuary 2013

Alpine Testing Solutions to Present at ITC Conference

Press release2012

Alpine Testing Solutions Selected by F5 to Redesign its IT Certification Program

Press release2012

Alpine Testing Solutions to Present at AERA and NCME Conference

Press release2012

Alpine Testing Solutions Presents at 2011 NRMERA Conference

Press release2011

NCARB Selects Alpine Testing Solutions for ARE® Content Management and Candidate Management Services

Press release2011