proctor
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When applying for a contract job at Mercor, applicants and former workers said they sat for a recorded interview with an unseen AI proctor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Inside the classroom, online tools proctor exams, create flashcards and submit assignments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026
An heir to the Hot Pockets fortune also admitted to paying Singer $100,000 to have a proctor correct her two daughters’ ACT exam answers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
The proctor administering an exam in his pre-calc class this spring leaned in and whispered, “What are you doing here?” as Beyer handed in his test.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
Her proctor had more information about the program, he told Cora, and was available to talk about any concern.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Princeton just revised its 133-year-old honor code to require exam proctors because cheating has become so temptingly easy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Kayla and Kellie had turned in test papers with what the proctors deemed unusual similarities.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
Recently, these proctors discovered that Rekognition was mistakenly registering faces in photos or posters as additional people in the room.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
After dropping out of his graduate studies in pure math, he proctors exams and tries to overcome his social anxiety by going to the occasional grad-student party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
One girl went to fetch the proctors from over by the schoolhouse.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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It is high time that we base student grades only on work done in proctored environments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Dr. Radhakrishnan, 33, was going through a similar process, proctored by his father, using the same website.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Testing will continue to be proctored at secure sites.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2022
We drove to a larger town in search of Wi-Fi so I could take a medical school exam proctored on Zoom.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
This year, the teammates took the tests from their homes, proctored over Zoom, through a Google Chrome program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
Some classes have started reintroducing proctoring - the supervision of candidates during an examination - and spoken-word tests to avoid cheating, she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Faculty voted to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing a policy set in place in 1893.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed complaints against Honorlock and four similar proctoring services in late 2020, calling their practices “inherently invasive.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2022
After examining online proctoring software that medical students at Dartmouth College claimed had wrongly flagged them, Mr. Quintin suggested that schools have outside experts review evidence of cheating.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
In some colleges the honor system is found, under which even proctoring at examinations does not exist, as all disciplinary matters, including the decision in serious offenses like cheating, rest with the student council.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul
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