Assessment Design That Needs No Proctoring
The only measure that closes the channels rather than watching them, and the one that improves the assessment rather than policing it.
Analysis
Alternatives
If having the internet open does not help, there is nothing to detect. That closes the channel rather than watching it.
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Open-Book and Applied Assessment
How to write an open-book assessment that is not simply a closed one with the restriction removed, which is where most attempts fail.
Procedure
Oral Examination and Viva
A conversation about the work, which addresses the channels no surveillance reaches, at a cost that is real and often overstated.
Analysis
Staged and Coursework Assessment
Assessing the process rather than the product. The approach that makes outsourcing expensive and cheating visible without watching anybody.
Analysis
In-Person Where It Still Makes Sense
The supervised room did not stop being available. For some assessments it remains cheaper, fairer and more defensible than the remote equivalent.
Analysis
When Proctoring Is Genuinely the Right Answer
The cases where remote monitoring is proportionate, well-founded and better than the alternatives. They exist and are narrower than the market implies.
Analysis