Eight questions to ask before you adopt AI in assessment, and six things you can do to keep human judgement where it belongs. Because the test is not whether AI lets you do something faster. It is whether it lets you do something better.
Everyone wants to know the best way to proctor an exam. There isn’t one. Every qualification carries its own purpose, stakes, candidates and constraints, so the useful question is not which model is best, but which model fits, and whether you can explain why you chose it.
There is no universal definition of secure enough. The answer depends on what the task exposes, what is at stake if the result is wrong, and the scale you are working at. The third article in The Proctoring Question sets out how to match the control to the risk, and what it costs when you get it wrong.
Assessment dashboards are good at showing what happened. Operational intelligence goes further. Learn how real-time signals can reveal emerging patterns in items, marking, delivery and accessibility, giving assessment teams more opportunities to act earlier.
A new partnership adds device-level security to the Cirrus range. Institutions can now run supervised exams on candidates’ own laptops without giving up control of the machine.
Cirrus now works with Schoolyear, a Safe Exam Workspace that secures the whole laptop for the length of an exam. Run large sittings without owning every machine in the room.
Behind every AI-generated proctoring flag sits a human reviewer making the final call. When the queue grows faster than the team can think, consistency erodes, and with it the defensibility of your outcomes. The second article in The Proctoring Question turns the camera onto the review process itself, and sets out five practical things to get right.
Most of us collect far more assessment data than we ever use. Pass rates tell you the ending. Item performance, candidate behaviour and timing tell you the story. Why the most expensive assessment data is the data that never reaches a decision.
Choice feels inclusive, but choice is not inherently fair. In part one of The Proctoring Question, our series on the future of remote proctoring, we look at why fairness across delivery routes must be designed rather than assumed, and pose six questions every assessment organisation should answer frankly.
Remote proctoring began as an emergency fix. Six years on, it’s a structural part of high-stakes assessment. In this new series we explore eight themes that determine whether remote delivery earns trust, from fairness across channels and reviewer flag fatigue to organised cheating, equity and the role of human judgement in an AI-assisted world.
Answer 12 questions across strategy, delivery, design and data and get a clear, personalised breakdown of where your assessment operation is strong and where to focus next.