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
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
These are the workers who conduct study sessions, offer crunch-time tutoring, read term papers, and proctor and grade exams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 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
Then he told me how she had gone to the proctor to have him moved out and how the proctor had revealed enough low stubbornness to insist on consulting Shreve first.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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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
All suspicious behavior is now reviewed by one of the company’s approximately 1,300 proctors, most of whom are based abroad in cheaper labor markets.
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
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
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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
Officials also are considering unusual measures to preserve testing if high school campuses and other venues for proctored exams remain off-limits because of the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 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
As it shows, when Escalante’s students were accused by the College Board of cheating on the 1982 AP exam, they were allowed another try on a test with different questions and heavy proctoring.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 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
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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