Eyes on Your Own Device: Ensuring Professional Integrity of an Online Assessment

This session aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the measures taken to ensure the integrity of the online longitudinal assessments of the ABP and ABFM including:

· Challenges of test security in a non-proctored online assessment

· Participant education

· Collusion detection process

· Communication of detected collusion

· Action as a result of repeated collusion

Presenters will share insights into the planning and process steps that helped the ABP and ABFM establish current test security practices, with a focus on collusion. Various education checkpoints designed to ensure participants understand the rules of engagement will be described. A case study detailing actions taken in response to repeated collusion will be presented, along with an overview of the adjudication process. Additionally, data demonstrating a reduction in collusion instances following the implementation of new practices will be provided.