It’s 6.30pm. A venue has just closed, 180 candidates are due tomorrow and your contingency plan offers three options that don’t add up. In part 1 of our new series, Robbie Burns looks at the gap between having a plan and being ready to use it.
Ten principles and two practical tools for choosing, applying and governing proctoring. Download the guide that closes The Proctoring Question series.
Every new cheating technology creates pressure to add another layer of surveillance, but that is an arms race the sector cannot win. In this eighth article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why better assessment design may be the most powerful security control, and what that means for the future of proctoring.
A proctoring platform can verify identity, control access and flag suspicious behaviour, but it does not decide what any of that means. People do. In this seventh article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why governance, policy and transparency make a proctoring process defensible, and where the authority of AI should end.
Remote proctoring has opened up assessment to candidates who could never reach a test centre. But getting someone logged in is not the same as giving them a fair chance. Equity begins after login, and it depends on design choices most assessment organisations can control.
Remote proctoring is often presented as the candidate-centric option. But removing the journey to an exam centre does not automatically remove the pressures of sitting the assessment. In this fifth article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why candidate experience belongs alongside security and validity, and how the environment we create can change the evidence an assessment produces.
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.
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.