Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To watch students in an examination-room. See
invigilator . - To watch diligently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun To keep watch.
- noun British To keep watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
oversee a test or exam.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)
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Examples
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(nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or "invigilate" [` proctor '] them.
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Just like at Melbourne, there is a group of pensioners who “invigilate”, however it is also a requirement that a “subject expert” be present for the entire time unlike just the first half and hour or so at Melbourne.
Promoveren: Teaching and learning « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2010
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While reading the Times Higher Educational Supplement today I saw that the AUT, the other academic union striking, is advising its members not to set or invigilate exams, with obvious consequences for students.
Academics on strike Jonathan 2006
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While reading the Times Higher Educational Supplement today I saw that the AUT, the other academic union striking, is advising its members not to set or invigilate exams, with obvious consequences for students.
Archive 2006-03-01 Jonathan 2006
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Today was a long one, wherein I helped to invigilate a term test for about 250 students, and didn't even leave campus until 5 p.m., and I'm tired and really should be in bed by now, but I didn't want today to pass without any comment of its significance.
free kessel free jlundberg 2008
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Savante, anon, I had to invigilate an exam for a student whose surname is Hooker!
Not Daunted by Squidginess Sharon Bakar 2005
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The Tunisian authorities sometimes give the same impression by hovering around in Internet cafés trying to invigilate what sites people are clicking on.
At the Desert's Edge Hitchens, Christopher 2007
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We seem to be configured for less drama, more akin to seedtime than anything one can invigilate.
Archive 2003-10-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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We seem to be configured for less drama, more akin to seedtime than anything one can invigilate.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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"In any case, the teachers do not invigilate matric exams -- it is an outside arrangement."
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"The Act should empower the minister to invigilate each council's procedures" p.72 Rethinking Social Justice by Tim Rowse.
March 27, 2013