The registration price? $95. Not as cheap as YouTube, but you will gain so much more! And, instead of sitting in front of your computer watching badly-made videos, you will be discussing test security issues and solutions with actual, live professionals from our field. Imagine that.

The conference runs from October 10-12, 2018 in the Olympic town of Park City, Utah. Can you think of a nicer place to visit in the fall?

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"COTS is the only conference in the industry that focuses exclusively on exam security topics - it’s truly an “inch wide and mile deep” event!  Every year at COTS, I’ve learned from other attendees and presenters as we’ve explored the latest trends in cheating, cheating detection, and organizational response. Because it’s a small conference, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from and developing relationships with some of the best and brightest in the industry." -        Rachel R. Watkins Schoenig, Founder & CEO, Cornerstone Strategies LLC  

"Years ago when I was trying to figure out what test security meant to me and my role within my company, I stumbled upon a conference that started me on a path to answer my most pressing questions and guiding me towards useful next steps. That conference, The Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud in 2012, was the precursor to the Conference on Test Security. The experience was aligned so closely with the work I was doing that I joined the Executive Board. In the past six years we have expanded and grown the conference to discuss and highlight not only the statistical work being done in test security, but also to more comprehensively cover test security with topics around legal challenges, copyright, technologies, and proctoring, too. As my role in test security and the needs of my company evolve, I consistently find value in hearing what my peers have been doing and having an opportunity to discuss upcoming test security challenges and opportunities." -        Kim Brunnert, Director of Psychometrics, Elsevier Science   "Because the security of exams has been my interest and passion for more than 15 years now, I find the Conference on Test Security to be the most helpful of all the conferences I attend each year in giving me new ideas and methods. Plus, it certainly doesn’t hurt that I get to network with like-minded friends and colleagues. If you are a long-timer like me, or new to the test security scene, you will find great benefit in attending, and sharing your own experiences. I guarantee it!" -        David Foster, President & CEO, Caveon Test Security   "COTS is the only conference I know of that is dedicated to the issue of test security.  The value of this opportunity for me is to learn what major concerns are emerging in test security and how others are dealing with them.  I find it valuable to hear how others have managed issues even if they have yet to affect what we do in my testing organization.  It’s also the only venue where I can get information on the full range of test security issues, from policy that is likely to have the greatest deterrence value, to forensic methods that have the greatest likelihood of detecting security violations.  There is also the added value of interacting with attendees who are at universities and those who are at testing organizations.  The interactions between academics and applied testing professionals across the spectrum from state testing organizations to licensing organizations is an added benefit.  Plus, sometimes you get to see a good movie about cheating.  What more could you want?" -        Mark Albanese, Director of Research, National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE)   "When I was a second-year graduate student, I found myself in the middle of a heated discussion around the whole country during my visit to family in Turkey. There were issues about the security of the national university entrance exams, and people were raising concerns about the exam scores and trying to justify why they think there was some kind of fraud. As a student desperately looking for a research topic, I read the paper written by Angoff (1972) after a quick search on Google Scholar about detecting cheating on exams. It followed a deep diving into the literature about the topic. After 10 years, it is amazing to see that this area has become a main research topic for me, and I am still passionate about it. COTS gives me a great platform to share my research with other practitioners and researchers. I am inspired by different ideas after every conference coming back to my office with a long list of things to explore for the next year." -        Cengiz Zopluoglu, Assistant Professor, University of Miami