Association of Test Publishers

The Association of Test Publishers or ATP is an established non-profit trade association representing providers of tests and assessment tools and/or services related to assessment, selection, screening, certification, licensing, educational or clinical uses.{{cite web |url=https://www.testpublishers.org/about-atp |title=About ATP |work=Association of Test Publishers |access-date=21 June 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://www.testpublishers.org/our-mission |title=Our Mission |work=Association of Test Publishers |access-date=21 June 2025}} It was founded in 1992 following the dissolution of its predecessor, the Association of Personnel Test Publishers (APTP).{{cite web |url=https://www.testpublishers.org/assets/ATP%20Was%20there%202021.pdf |title=ATP Advocacy History and Milestones |work=Association of Test Publishers |date=31 August 2021 |access-date=21 June 2025}}

In 2001, the ATP published the Guidelines for Computer-Based Testing and the Internet, which addressed testing via electronic devices.{{cite book |editor-last1=Downing |editor-first1=Steven M. |editor-last2=Haladyna |editor-first2=Thomas M. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handbook_of_Test_Development/ed-NAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA726 |title=Handbook of Test Development |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=726 |date=2011 |access-date=21 June 2025 |isbn=978-1135283384}} In 2006, the ATP published a survey of 77 companies in which about half reported that their IT certification exams were available for sale on the internet, along with widespread reports of cheating on those exams.{{cite magazine |last=Thibodeau |first=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6rBhRDBEic0C&pg=PA1 |title=Cheating on IT Exams May Cast Doubt on Their Value |magazine=Computerworld |volume=41 |issue=18 |pages=1, 13 |date=30 April 2007 |access-date=21 June 2025}}