Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory

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2021-10

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Poulsen, Seth et al.; Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory; ACM Transactions on Computing Education, volume 22, No. 1, Article 6, October 2021; https://doi.org/10.1145/3451346

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We present a psychometric evaluation of a revised version of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory (CCI), completed by 354 students from 29 colleges and universities. The CCI is a conceptual test of understanding created to enable research on instruction quality in cybersecurity education. This work extends previous expert review and small-scale pilot testing of the CCI. Results show that the CCI aligns with a curriculum many instructors expect from an introductory cybersecurity course, and that it is a valid and reliable tool for assessing what conceptual cybersecurity knowledge students learned.