Remote
Proctoring of the SOIS Comprehensive Examination
Policy and Procedure
Approved by SOIS Faculty on
April 19, 2002; revised January 31, 2003
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Remote proctoring of the Comprehensive Examination
is available to those students who (1) have taken
less than half of their coursework on campus and
(2) live beyond a 250-mile driving distance from
the city of Milwaukee or for whom transportation
to Milwaukee would pose an undue hardship. Regardless
of the opportunity to take the Comprehensive Examination
by remote proctoring, the SOIS faculty urge distance
students to consider traveling to Milwaukee to
take the in-house portion of the Comprehensive
Examination, as the SOIS faculty believe this
will result in a more rounded educational experience.
However, subject to the conditions below, a remotely
proctored Comprehensive Examination is offered
to distance students.
- A student desiring to take the in-house portion
of the Comprehensive Examination through the
use of a Remote Proctor is responsible for all
external costs associated with the administration
of the remotely proctored Comprehensive Examination.
This may include but is not limited to costs
for overnight or express mail delivery or fax
service from the remote proctor to SOIS-UWM
and any fees charged by the remote proctor for
administration of the examination.
- The student must initiate contact with the
Remote Proctor and establish the remote proctor's
willingness to serve in this capacity. The Remote
Proctor should then contact the Comprehensive
Examination Committee on behalf of the student
and express in writing willingness to serve
as Remote Proctor at least 30 calendar days
before the take-home questions are distributed.
As part of this process the Remote Proctor should
identify and describe the specific conditions
under which it anticipates the proctoring will
occur that will meet the requirements of this
policy, i.e., the identity of the bona fide
Remote Proctor (see below), the date, time,
and place of the remotely proctored examination,
its ability to ensure delivery of the remotely
proctored examination to SOIS-UWM as soon as
possible after the administration of the Comprehensive
Examination, etc. This should be done as soon
as possible after the start of the academic
semester in which the student desires to take
the comprehensive examination.
- The Comprehensive Examination Committee or
its Chair acting on its behalf will make a determination
as to whether the remote proctor and the conditions
under which it intends to administer the Comprehensive
Examination, subject to the requirements of
the Remote Proctoring of the SOIS Comprehensive
Examination Policy and Procedure, are acceptable.
- Only the following entities can serve as a
bona fide remote proctor: either the official
testing center of an accredited educational
institution, an official testing center of a
governmental agency, such as a city employment
relations department or similar personnel or
benefits unit, or a private educational agency
that is certified to administer the GRE, the
MAT, or the TOEFL. For example, an individually
administered Comprehensive Examination by a
faculty member at another university in his
or her office would NOT qualify as a bona fide
Remote Proctor.
- The administration of the Comprehensive Examination
by the Remote Proctor must occur on the same
date as the in-house portion of the Comprehensive
Examination is administered to students in Milwaukee.
- Immediately after the remote student has
taken the comprehensive examination, the Remote
Proctor shall arrange for the exam, the student's
answers and any scratch paper used by the student
to be delivered to SOIS by the use of overnight
or express mail, courier delivery, or similar
method. It is imperative that this delivery
process be initiated as soon as possible after
the completion of the examination and with a
reliable entity as grading of the comprehensive
examination cannot begin until all examinations
are accounted for and in the possession of SOIS,
the Comprehensive Examination Committee or its
agents.
- All other requirements regarding the circumstances
under which the comprehensive examination is
offered must be followed by the remote proctor,
i.e., time limit, closed book, use of pen, no
pencil, use of designated test-books or bluebooks,
etc.
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