Public facing Item Writing development repository for the Node.js Certified Developer exam
This repository is a reflection of project work collaborated on in private repositories to maintain the integrity of the exam questions.
The Item Writing development is being held as a series of online, distributed webinars and collaborative video sessions to allow for global contribution. There are 30 item writers--one per question. A smaller subset of these folks comprises the Item Writing Review Team(IWRT). This group, 12 people, is responsible for reviewing items written, honing unsatisfactory items, and holding consensus/leveling meetings with the other members of the IWRT to finalize the question set. We're aiming for item writers to not be able to view questions in progress outside of the domain to which they are working on, so that they can remain eligible to be certified if they wish to do so. The IWRT will more likely be exposed to enough questions that this will be difficult to allow.
Full Node.js Certific Developer content topic list
Time commitment for the Item Writing team:
- 1.5 hour intro webinar to learn the format and how to write the question(s)--item writers & IWRT
- 2 to 5 hours independently writing and reviewing the question with Item Writing Review Team members--items writers & IWRT
- 5 to 6 1-hour online meetings to reach consensus, group review, and level items--IWRT only
Folks to reach out to Cert Team
- Tracy (@hackygolucky)
- Liz Kline
- Wallace Judd
Item Writing Review Team
- Rajat Kumar
- Ryan Lewis
- Nathan White
- David Clements
- Bradley Farias
- Evan Lucas
- Matteo Collina
- David Gonzalez
- Ashley Williams
- J P Wesselink
- Todd Kennedy
- Duncan Hall
- Bryan English
Item Writers
- Alex Young
- Chetan Karande
- Diogo Resende
- Nikita Galkin
- Rachel White
- Rafał Pocztarski
- Ruairi O'Donnell
- Ruy Adorno
- Sean Canton
- Suhas Deshpande
- Suman Kunwar
- Thomas Hunter II
- Tierney Cyren
2 weeks – Currently – create two item templates for Node.js
1 week – conduct 3 webinars for author training
3 weeks – April 25 - May 15 – time for authors to submit items
1 week – May 15 - 22 – review items & assemble preliminary test
UPDATED TIMELINE
- Preliminary user/market research, project planning, and JTA recruitment
- May - September 2016
- JTA workshop to establish domains and weighting
- December 2016
- Determine and procure infrastructure partner
- January - March 2017
- Item Writing recruitment and development(ongoing)
- April - Current 2017
- Alpha testing
- December 2017
- Beta I: early access, 40 candidates
- January 2018
- Beta II and establish cut score: 100 candidates
- February 2018
- QA testing
- March 2018
- General Release
- March 2018
- Review for Node.js bugs and exposure(every month)
- Workshop to revise for LTS update and exposure
- October 2018
Item writing development occurs in GitHub and is tested in a sandbox within the HackerRank infrastructure, where the in-browser hosted Node.js environment will live for the Node.js Certified Developer exam. We’ll be backing up all items as private repositories in GitHub. A repository has been established with tight permissions to account for atomic work and allow for item writers to not be exposed to so many exam items that they themselves could not certify.
There will be a total of 32 items on the Node.js Certified Developer exam. We will have 5 variants of the exam overall. This allows for reducing exposure and potential cheating on the exam.
We will have 10 anchor items, the same on all exams.
We will need 22 unique items on each form.
Item writers will create one question with 4 variants.
Item writers, along with Item Writing Review Team members, will submit their items via a fork and pull model. IWRT members will review and comment on submitted items for consistency