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proctor

[prok-ter] / ˈprɒk tər /




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She applied and soon landed an interview, conducted by an unseen AI proctor with a male-sounding voice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

The workers who remain on strike are all students — researchers and teaching assistants, the latter of who who grade papers, run discussion classes and proctor exams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

The next month, two hours before a General Chemistry II test, the university’s testing service told Mr. Ogletree in an email that the proctor would be checking his work area before the exam.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 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

It goes back to the 19th century, when students petitioned to eliminate proctors during examinations, according to the student newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Test taker Andrea Lynch told lawmakers she faced constant disruptions during the exam from proctors, technical glitches and computer crashes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025

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

Miss Lucy had mentioned that she lived with a group of proctors in a boardinghouse near the square.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Since then, I’ve used only work done in a proctored environment in computing my students’ grades.

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

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

“Students are asked to agree to these decisions, but they have no meaningful power not to consent,” said Guy McHendry, an associate professor at Creighton University, which has used Examity for some proctored exams.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2020

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

For more than a century, Princeton University prided itself on an honor code so revered that proctoring during exams was banned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Some of the proctoring software allows a person monitoring an exam to take control of students’ devices, which poses privacy concerns in addition to the room scans, Bill Fitzgerald, a privacy researcher, said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Detect’s hub is small enough to carry for travel, and telehealth proctoring costs an extra $20.

From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2022

One very important college duty, the proctoring of examinations, which would seem to be an entirely legitimate function of the Student Government Association, the students themselves have not as yet been willing to assume.

From The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse




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