What should I do? Mountain State University requires me to find a proctor for one of my independent study courses. However, the problem is I just moved to a knew city and don't know of anyone I can trust to supervise my exam. I don't want to entrust some weird stranger with the responsibility of giving me my exams. I hope someone on the message board who has had to face a similar problem as I can give me some good at advice. One option I want to purse is trying to get Mountain State University to let my husband proctor the exam or his Uncle. I know this option might be difficult due to the no relative rule. Nevertheless, what else is there?
You can probably use a librarian or a local college professor, but you cannot use a friend or relative for obvious reasons. You must have your exams proctored at a public place like a library, church, or school. Your proctor must have at least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited school.
Wow, that doesn't sound like a problem at all - Mountain State sounds like it has a very liberal policy when it comes to proctors. At TESC, they require the proctor to be a full-time professor or a full-time librarian at a public library, not a K-12 library. They won't accept as proctors anyone else, not clergy, employers, the mailman, etc. But since your school is not quite that strict, it sounds like you would have many choices. How about a librarian, or faculty at a local community college? Or the mailman (would be able to send out your exams for grading very quickly). It sounds like at Mountain State, you can even use colleagues, or your husband's colleagues, or your pastor, or almost anyone. But using your husband or his uncle as your proctor!? Isn't the point of proctoring to use some weird stranger, so that you don't have a preexisting relationship? Really, you're luckier than you think - it's like driving through a slum in a limo and complaining that there's no champagne in the fridge.
Some suggestions for suitable proctors: 1. Librarians - many have done this often, so requesting this of your local library shouldn't seem unusual to them, even if you don't know anyone there. The most you would have to do beforehand is join the library, that is get a free library card. 2. Public school officials - some will proctor for you, especially if you have children attending their school. 3. Clergy - check with your college first to make sure this is an option. (Example: Brigham Young University allows this, Thomas Edison State College does not.) 4. Testing centers - try calling any local community colleges or universities to see if they will allow you to use their testing centers. It's possible there may be a fee involved. 5. Private learning centers - something like Slyvan Learning Center or other similar private companies that offer tutoring services to students. It's possible there may be a bigger fee involved than using a local college testing center. Forget about trying to use your husband or uncle as a proctor. As you already stated, Mountain State has a "no relative" policy, as do most (if not all) legitimate distance colleges. There's a good reason for that, proctors need to be impartial and relatives don't fit that requirement. Kit
Many college libraries are able to do this, and I've personally taken exams proctored by a college librarian (who broght work to do while proctoring my exam in a private room.) The other suggestion I would offer is to get yourself a proctor-scope and look around to find a good proctor
I'm not sure if your TESC reference is for TECEPs or for something else, but for my TECEPs a full-time employee of a university or college was sufficient - you didn't need a proctor to be a full-time professor. In my case she was the exam administrator for DANTES and was happy to help me out with TECEP for the same minimal fee ($5/exam). Cheers, Mark
Most colleges and universties have testing centers where you can take tests in a proctored environment. For Louisiana see: Louisiana Testing Centers Note: you will probably have to pay a fee for this service, plus mailing costs.
I recall back when I was taking my MBA exams for the EBS program, the exams were proctored by the Educational Assessment Center at the University of Washington. I got to know the person who proctored my exams well over the years, and she told me that most colleges and universities of a reasonable size have a testing center. Any such center is going to be very familiar with proctoring outside exams, and most of them charge a very minimal fee to do so.
Dance of Joy Thanks for all the great advice everybody, I was able to find a Proctor through my local library that is down the street from my house. The best part is that there is no FEE to be paid! The library also I learned has years of experince dealing with protoctor exams.I've lost count of the times this message board have saved my butt If not for you guys, I would not have thought to check my local library. Thanks
Buna dimmies ever'body. I think (pace Prof. Kennedy) that exams should be on the honor system as I am an enema of this system and don't think proctology belongs in distance learning at all as it puts people through a lot of shit for no very good reason and could endanger them if they had to evacuate where they were all of a sudden so it is obvious in this case that the law is an ass.
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