Established in 1992, ATP is a non-profit, member-run organization that represents providers of tests and assessment tools and/or services related to assessment, selection, screening, certification, licensing, educational or clinical uses. For more than a decade ATP has worked to educate the public and government bodies about the positive contributions that tests, when professionally developed and properly used, can provide to society, while also promoting awareness of and compliance with laws regarding copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights.

Before ATP was founded, there was no unified effort among test publishers to provide education and relevant guidance about the use of tests, or to monitor important emerging trends in the development and use of tests. ATP has worked to educate legislative, legal and regulatory bodies about the benefits of tests to businesses and communities. Additionally, ATP serves as an advocate for the entire testing community with efforts such as the establishment of professional guidelines, and dissemination of information on advances in test development and delivery.

ATP is committed to promoting the benefits of best practices in testing and the value of these benefits to society. ATP is dedicated to the highest level of professionalism and business ethics within the test publishing community. ATP serves as a unified voice for the testing industry. ATP promotes the intellectual property rights of test publishers and advises its members of new initiatives affecting tests, test qualifications and test disclosure.

ATP is a diverse membership organization. It has four divisions, each focusing on a specific area, including:

• Certification/Licensure
• Clinical
• Education
• Industrial/Organizational.

·Certification/Licensure

Members of this division include publishers of professional certification and licensure exams, managers of information technology (IT) certification programs and test delivery channel vendors.

The Clinical division consists of ATP members with an interest in tests that enhance clinical, diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making by qualified professionals. Members of the Clinical division publish tests of intelligence and cognitive ability, academic skill and achievement, emotional status, personality style and type, and behavior problems, as well as many others.

The Education division of ATP includes organizations engaged in the educational testing industry from K through 12 school systems to higher education to corporate training programs. The Education division promotes good testing practices and stresses the importance of assessment as an integral part of the educational process.

This division of ATP concentrates on the development of quality assessment tools for selection, placement, classification and promotion of working individuals. Members take an active role in creating and promoting best practices that affect test use within private and public organizations.

Today there is strong and growing interest in the use of tests and assessments. Standardized tests and assessments in many disciplines are the accepted method to measure skills, knowledge and interest. These tool are used for selection, screening, certification, licensing, educational, and clinical purposes. Tests and their results influence millions of lives every day, whether it is in school, at work, or in other settings.

The Association of Test Publishers, was founded to promote and develop testing and assessment best practices and to facilitate an environment that would benefit test-takers, businesses, educational organizations, and society in general. Led by an Executive Director, a Chair elected for a one-year term, and Board of Directors comprised of recognized leaders in the test publishing community, the Association charges itself with defining professionalism for assessment and ethics, and promoting adherence to these principles. To achieve this purpose, ATP focuses on two initiatives: advocacy for the industry and education for its members.

ATP monitors legislative, legal and regulatory bodies that commonly deal with testing issues. This effort reflects its mission to inform the public and governmental bodies about the contributions and critical role that professionally developed and administered tests play in our society.

ATP provides educational and training programs for its members including newsletters and journals, conferences and annual meetings. Through its programs ATP fosters an environment that promotes the exchange of ideas on testing issues and trends.

Because well-developed tests are a valid way to assess knowledge, skills and aptitudes, it is imperative that the testing community promotes and adheres to professional, fair testing methods and practices. Well-developed tests can influence the adoption of teaching methods, the diagnosing of learning disabilities, the accepting of college applicants and the hiring of new employees. And ATP supports the development of tests that fairly and accurately assess individuals. For more information about testing, ATP or ATP’s specialty divisions, visit www.testpublishers.org or call toll-free 866.240.7909.

A skilled and experienced team of test publishing professionals and practitioners directs the Association of Test Publishers (ATP). This dedicated group of individuals divides their time between career responsibilities and serving the ATP membership. To speak with or interview any of these individuals, please contact Lauren Scheib at 866-240-7909.

Board members are elected by their peers to serve the Association and its four divisions, Certification/Licensure, Education, Clinical and Industrial/Organizational.

Chris Gruber, Ph.D. — Chair
Vice President Research & Development
Western Psychological Services

Wayne J. Camara, Ph.D. -- Past Chair
Vice President for Research and Psychometrics, The College Board

Wayne J. Camara, Ph.D., is Vice President for Research and Psychometrics at the College Board.  Prior to joining the College Board in 1994, Dr. Camara served as Assistant Executive Director of Science at the American Psychological Association (APA).  While at APA, he directed governance and scientific involvement in policy and research activities concerning testing, and research funding and directed the revision of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.  Dr. Camara has assisted federal agencies in developing regulations (e.g., Civil Rights Act, ADA, Goals 2000, integrity testing) and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. His principal areas of research are standards and professional practice in testing, test validity, fairness, testing accommodations, and ethical issues in testing. Dr. Camara is a fellow of APA (Divisions 1, 5, 14), and past president of Division 5. He has also served on the National Council on Measurement in Education Board, the DoD TAC and is  a member of the Pennsylvania State Assessment Program TAC. 

Casey Marks, Ph.D. - Chair Elect
Associate Executive Director, Business Operations
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
                          
Casey Marks, Ph.D., is the Associate Executive Director, Business Operations at NCSBN. He serves as chief operations executive leading in the development of the strategic plan and in the formulation of programs to advance the mission and vision of NCSBN.  With over ten years of experience in large-scale assessment, he has published and presented extensively and is seen as an expert on issues related to adoption and vendor transition of Computer Based Testing for high-stakes, large-scale testing programs. Casey has a long history of involvement and volunteer service with testing related organizations such as American Education Research Association (AERA), National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Council on Licensure, Education, and Regulation (CLEAR), National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA), and the International Test Commission (ITC). Involved with the ATP Annual Conference since 2001, he currently serves as the Chair for the Licensure/Certification Division of ATP. As Division Chair, he has led the effort to integrate the former Council for Secure Testing (CST) into the new Test Security Initiative for ATP. Casey holds a Ph.D. in Psychometrics from the University of Chicago. He is married, with two children and lives in Chicago, IL.

Betty Bergstrom, Ph.D.  -- Board Member
Vice President of Testing Services, Pearson VUE

As Vice President of Testing Services for Pearson VUE, Dr. Betty Bergstrom leads the Content Development, Technical Implementation and Measurement Services teams. Her staff supports client programs for job analysis, virtual and in-person question development, building and updating computer-based tests (CBT), and the statistical analysis of questions and tests for the certification and licensure markets in the US and world wide.  Betty has over 15 years of experience with computer-based testing and has research expertise in the areas of Item Response Theory (IRT), equating, standard setting, computerized testing and adaptive testing. She has authored numerous articles and publications relating to computer-based testing. Betty earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis from the University of Chicago.  She is a member of the American Educational Research Association, National Council on Measurement in Education, Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. In 2006, she served as the Program Committee Chair for the ATP annual meeting.

John Fremer, Ph.D. -- Board Member
Founder and Senior Director, Caveon Test Security

Dr. John Fremer has 40 years of experience in the field of test publishing and test program development and revision, including management level positions at Educational Testing Service and The Psychological Corporation/Harcourt. Currently, John is founder and Sr. Director of Caveon Test Security.  In his 35-year career at Educational Testing Service, Fremer led the ETS team that worked with the College Board to develop the current version of the SAT. Fremer is a Past President of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and a former editor of the NCME journal Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. Fremer also served as President of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) and the Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC). He was co-chair of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices (JCTP) and of the JCTP work group that developed the testing-industry-wide Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education; one of the most frequently cited documents in the field of educational measurement. Fremer is a co-editor of Computer-Based Testing: Building the Foundations for Future Assessments, (2002, Erlbaum.)

Scott Hamilton, Ph.D. - Board Member
Senior Vice President, Profiles International, Inc.
                          
Active in ATP for 10 years, Scott Hamilton, Ph.D., has served as Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair of ATP's Industrial/Organizational Division and also as a member of both the Program and Sponsorship committees for ATP's Annual Conferences. As an officer for the I/O Division, Scott has represented the Division at many ATP board meetings.  He has worked to allow both small and large companies become more involved in ATP.  As a Board member, he will continue to represent the interests of all members.  Scott is a Senior Vice-President and Director of R&D, for Profiles International, Inc., a founding member of ATP.  His graduate education is in Counseling and Clinical Psychology, with minors in Research.  Both Masters and Ph.D. were granted by University of North Texas. Scott is acknowledged as expert in assessment development and associated research, to include the design of web-based assessments.  He has provided consultation to businesses in HR, personnel evaluation and selection, information systems, and management development for over thirty-five years.  He has served on the board for several organizations in the public and private sector and maintains active memberships in the American Psychological Society, the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, and a foreign affiliate of the British Psychological Society.

Peg Jobst - Board Member
Senior Vice President, Assessments    
Graduate Management Admission Council
 

Casey Marks, Ph.D. - Board Member
Associate Executive Director, Business Operations
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
                          
Casey Marks, Ph.D., is the Associate Executive Director, Business Operations at NCSBN. He serves as chief operations executive leading in the development of the strategic plan and in the formulation of programs to advance the mission and vision of NCSBN.  With over ten years of experience in large-scale assessment, he has published and presented extensively and is seen as an expert on issues related to adoption and vendor transition of Computer Based Testing for high-stakes, large-scale testing programs. Casey has a long history of involvement and volunteer service with testing related organizations such as American Education Research Association (AERA), National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Council on Licensure, Education, and Regulation (CLEAR), National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA), and the International Test Commission (ITC). Involved with the ATP Annual Conference since 2001, he currently serves as the Chair for the Licensure/Certification Division of ATP. As Division Chair, he has led the effort to integrate the former Council for Secure Testing (CST) into the new Test Security Initiative for ATP. Casey holds a Ph.D. in Psychometrics from the University of Chicago. He is married, with two children and lives in Chicago, IL.

Marten Roorda - Board Member
Chief Executive Officer, Cito

Marten Roorda is Chief Executive Officer of Cito, Europe’s leading testing and assessment company, based in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Cito’s testing expertise and technology is renowned and respected all over the world. After Marten joined Cito in 2002, the company expanded internationally, opening branches in Germany, Turkey and the US, and an agency in Japan. Cito activities are in education, certification, test development and CBT. The company performs projects for international organizations: the WorldBank, the OECD and the European Union, and gives expert advice in many countries. Previously Marten held management positions at Reed Elsevier, after having an editorial career and starting up a literary publishing house. He was a keynote speaker at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, 2004, in Palm Springs. It has been his personal initiative to found the European Division of the ATP. The ATP Board of Directors recently voted to create a fifth division comprised of European testing companies. The Division will become active early in 2006. Marten graduated as a master in Dutch language and literature. He is the author of publications on testing issues. Marten is 44 years old and lives in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Carol Watson -- Board Member
President, Pearson Assessments

Carol Watson is President of Pearson Assessments.  She has been extensively involved in ATP.  She has served as Chair and Co-Chair of the Clinical division, and was on the Program Committee for the 2001 ATP Conference.  Ms.Watson has over 20 years in the test publishing industry, including the Clinical, Education, and Industrial markets.  She began her career in test publishing in 1981, with Compu-Psych, a pioneering company in computerized psychological assessment.  After NCS acquired Compu-Psych in 1983, she held several positions at NCS, until joining AGS in 1990.  She rejoined NCS in 1992. Ms. Watson graduated with honors from William Jewell College, and completed the Minnesota Executive Program at the University of Minnesota.

Philip Young, Ph.D. -- Board Member
Executive Director of Program Procurement, ETS

Dr. Philip Young is currently the Executive Director of Program Procurement for large scale assessment programs within the Elementary and Secondary Education Division (K-12) of ETS.  During his four-year tenure at ETS Phil has overseen the development of a proposal development and sales unit that has won  significant state and district assessment business, and helped push the K-12 Division’s total annual revenue over $150 million.  Phil began his assessment career in 1986 with The Psychological Corporation (Harcourt) and also worked for Riverside Publishing for three years before joining ETS in 2002.  Prior to his assessment career Phil taught graduate and undergraduate students in Educational Psychology at Towson University for fourteen years.  Altogether, his teaching and business careers have spanned 37 years.

Phil earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife, Mary, and has three grown children.  He is currently Chair of the ATP Education Division and is also a member of AERA, NCME and the National Association of Test Directors (NATD).  He is a frequent public speaker on assessment topics and has been active in following and helping influence legislative actions affecting assessment. 

William G. Harris serves as the executive director of ATP, the leading association of test publishers. As an advocate for the testing industry, he frequently provides expert testimony on legislative initiatives on testing and assessment at the federal, state, and provincial levels. G. Harris holds a doctorate degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master's degree in Business Administration from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His areas of interests are industry-wide issues including e-testing, test security, digital copyright, and the impact of the Internet on the economics and future of testing. He presently serves as the co-executive director of the IT Certification Security Council and is a member of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ Professional Certification and Licensure Advisory Committee. G is both a member of the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education Task Force for the Joint Committee on Testing Practices (JCTP) and the Steering Committee of the Fair Access Coalition on Testing (FACT). In addition, he is a member of the editorial board of several leading scholarly journals.

David W. Arnold is General Counsel at Wonderlic, Inc.  Prior to joining Wonderlic he served as Vice President-Development and Professional Compliance with Pearson Reid London House. He also has served as General Counsel for the Association of Test Publishers since its inception. In this capacity, Dr. Arnold monitors relevant legislation and has testified on many occasions before various federal and state legislative committees on issues related to testing. Dr. Arnold’s prior background includes positions with civic and academic organizations, in addition to corporate assignments with Supermarkets General Corporation and United Airlines. He holds a J.D. from Loyola University Law School and a Ph.D. in industrial psychology from the University of Nebraska. He is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology ("SIOP"). David is also Past Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Legal Issues and currently serves on the State Affairs Committee of SIOP. David has also written hundreds of articles and made numerous presentations regarding testing, as well as relevant litigation and legislation.

President of Boston-based Bay State Psychological Associates, Inc., a company that develops and publishes a range of human performance services, including pre-employment assessment instruments, Dr. Borofsky has participated in a wide range of ATP activities including serving two terms as co-chair of the Association’s Industrial Division, and two terms as ATP’s secretary. As a current member of the Board, Dr. Borofsky has represented the perspective and interests of the smaller member companies. On behalf of ATP, he has been actively involved in lobbying at both the federal and state levels on the social benefits of test use. Dr. Borofsky contributed to the development of Congressional pre-employment screening policies, and served as a pre-employment screening consultant to development, government, legal and law enforcement policies and programs. Dr. Borofsky holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University, and is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Borofsky was also a faculty member at Harvard Medical School for over 25 years.