What is a fair amount to pay a proctor?

What is a fair amount to pay a proctor for a distance learning test? For instance TESCEP... I assume that the amount would be relative to the location and the proctors credentials. But I would like to be fair.

 

TECEP COST

Hello, Our local librarian was the proctor for my husbands exams. Cost was 0. Happy 4th . Hille

 

Re: TECEP COST

Good deal! My local library charges $10. A community college in the area (NCTA member) also charges $10 per exam.

 

Re: TECEP COST

Hi, Hille,

Ours is forbidden by county policy to proctor. I am thinking seeing if she can do it on the side. <sigh> But then of course I will need to pay her. This one test is 4 hours, though I do not expect I will need the time, I guess I should arrange for it.

Best wishes,

David

 

Personally, I think proctors should be paid on a contingency basis:

A = $100
B = $50
C = $20
D and below = mystery prize

 

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I think you should tip according to your score on the test!

 

Hello, I re-read the TECEP policy and had an idea. Why not explore the idea of a friend in law enforcement being a proctor? On the web page there is a blurb about incarcerated students and proctors. Why couldn't law enforcement proctors be an answer for others.? Have a peaceful Sunday. Hille

 

During the 7 years I was doing stuff for the Heriot-Watt distance MBA, I was involved in a about 100 attempts to find proctors (or, as they charmingly called it, invigilators). 95% were at other school testing centers. 2/3 were free, and the others ranged from $10 to $100, average about $20.

Annals of Invigilation 1: One year, there was only one student in an African nation where the university believed that honest proctoring would be a challenge; there had already been reports of offered bribes. They flew in a proctor from another country and put him up for ten days. On reflection, they decided it would have been much cheaper to fly the student to Scotland.

Annals of Invigilation 2: We had several students at the Chevron drilling operation in Kazakhstan, 300 miles from the nearest campus of any sort. Chevron offered to fly people in their helicopter up to 100 miles. We found a village 80 miles away where the local orthodox priest spoke English. The university rejected that. Then we learned that one of the HOPE hospital ships was plying the Caspian, and had a bunch of US physicians aboard + a helipad. Problem solved.

 

no charge

Several local high school principals offer space and sign for free.
The public libraries will do it for free, but some suggest a donation to the library fund.
All the best!

 

Re: no charge

Local library has a "no testing" policy. Not sure why.

But finally located a testing center at our local community college. It was well hidden!

Thanks

 

Thanks, Hille. Have solved the problem here. Sorry to be so long getting back. Series of computer problems finally ending in junking the whole thing and starting over!

Best wishes,

David

 

And I thought I had problems!

Thanks!

David

 

Invigilation

Since John Bear had these start up problems in the early days of Heriot-Watt University with finding invigilatorsroctors nI think it is fair to report to the community that things have moved on a long way.

The University's quality assurance procedures require that the invigilation of final examinations are tightly invigilated to meet potential problems. Most of our MBA distancze examinations are invigilated by staff from the localm offices of the British Council (a UK government agency loosely associated with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office). These people work to procedurtes and rules approved by the Quality Assurance Agency (another state agency that works for the UK universities and monitors UK universities. Over the years we learned to completely separate the role of invigilation - recruitment, management - from anybody connected with distributing the MBA as a programme.

NOTE: absolutely no implication that our experiecnes with John prompted this decision - the 'culprits' were located in different continents to the USA and Canada but to avoid discrimination charges and bleats from cultural relativists we had to make the rules apply to everybody, including those like John who were and are clean and honest).

It is expensive on a global scale with over 300 centres in over 100 countries for up to 26 exams twice a year and 8 exams four times a year, covering numbers from one person to a couple of hundred. I do not know what individual invigilators are paid but the total runs to many tens of thousands of GBP. No distance learning operation can risk suspicions about the integrity of its examinations - and EBS only uses exams for assessment.