proctor
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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
Tuesday — 15 minutes ahead of his 10 a.m. remote exam — Drelinger said the testing platform crashed when a proctor logged on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
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 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
The proctor wrote down her mother’s name and promised to check the master records in the Griffin Building.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
Quiet descended as proctors distributed booklets for Round 1: nine Sudoku puzzles, with a 45-minute time limit.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Kayla and Kellie had turned in test papers with what the proctors deemed unusual similarities.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
The district will prioritize the use of proctors, who are unarmed and work as security across all campuses, to de-escalate situations among students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
The proctors felt it prudent that the people who cleaned and cooked in the dorms did so in buildings other than their own.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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To gain entry to the program, firms must meet a slate of requirements, among them certifying a minimum number of people in a proctored exam and meeting Anthropic’s bar for “deploying Claude responsibly,” Kadon added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
As the pandemic winds down, and test takers can gather in person again, the remote proctoring industry may soon be in lower demand and face far less scrutiny.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Other test proctoring tools have been criticized as well, especially as schools and instructors struggled with implementing at-home testing-taking in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 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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