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What is the true cost to your organization when faced with cheating or content exposure? With the surge in online exam delivery due to COVID-19, it’s important to understand the value of your intellectual property and the risk posed when integrity is compromised. Join Dr. Ashley Norris as to discuss various examples and studies related to online exams, cheating and the repercussions of an exam security breach.Ashley Norris, PhD, Chief Compliance Officer at Meazure Learning 
Ashley has spent the past 15 years in higher education as both a faculty member and administrator across major institutions, such as the University of Alabama, and has led thought leadership on ethics and integrity in education, continuing to spearhead those efforts for Meazure Learning’s key initiatives on academic integrity. 

What is AI? Dr. Greg Sadesky discusses the applications of AI that are most relevant for assessment. It sounds so futuristic… artificial intelligence and assessment! Maybe it’s just that much of current assessment practice involves theory developed in the early 1900’s (classical test theory) or the 1960’s (item response theory), the idea that assessment might […]

Former Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Greg Sadesky dives into a favorite topic: automated item generation. Rapid Content Production for Professional Testing When it comes to high-stakes testing and credentialing, the validity of the results depends heavily on the quality of the questions being asked. Those questions need to make sense, cover the subject matter comprehensively, […]

BioConnect and Yardstick partnership will transform the online testing and training industries Identify verification and management software ensures your learners are who they say they are BioConnect is a transformative technology company specializing in identity management and biometric technologies. Through this partnership, Yardstick will be able to offer the added security of biometric identity verification to our high […]

The Times Higher Education is warning that the extreme potential economic and social benefits of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, may be squandered if colleges do not prepare their students with knowledge about AI competencies and limitations. “We need workers who understand how to make the best use of the power that AI automation can bring […]

“Founded in 2008, ProctorU has administered one million exams for test-takers in 75 countries and works with more than 500 institutions. The company has four offices across the U.S. and employs more than 400 people.”

“Using webcams, headsets, and a real-time screen-sharing technology, proctors scan faces for wandering eyes and unusual behavior that might suggest cheating.”

“In a pattern that we’ve seen many times before when technology disrupts the existing model, the core innovations exposed new gaps that needed to be filled and entrepreneurs began emerging to fill them: start-ups like Proctoru, delivering online proctoring services to enable trustworthy online test taking…”

“This includes requiring simple identity authentication processes and remote proctored exams through services like ProctorU.com, where students connect with a live proctor via their webcam, audio feed and desktop views via screen sharing.”

“We are very concerned about cyber security. The potential of identity theft is great and monitary loss can be quite large. We use best practices guidelines, which dictates: who has access; password protocol; encryption of data and emails; backup security; computers timing out; strong network security; top-of-the-line firewall and malware programs. There is also a procedure if anyone suspects a breach in cyber security.” – ProctorU Vice President of Operations Matt Jaeh