It is - though it's usually preference given to people who work in whatever school is the test site. I've been doing it for .. 6 years now?
There are three basic levels: assistant proctor (you help someone else out, and thus get less pay, but it requires less skill and ability to negotiate complicated testing requirements.) I think the pay right now is around $75 for the day.
associate proctor: you're responsible for your own room. Pay right now is right around $100 for a regular time room, and $150 for an extended time room (which is usually what I do)
And then there's the test supervisor (which our head of college counselling does.)
I usually proctor the extended time for two reasons:
a) it's more money (and not a lot more time: the regular time SAT usually ends around 12:30 or 1pm, and the extended finishes around 1:45 or 2.)
b) I really like the smaller rooms - I usually have between 1 and 5 kids, and it's so much *simpler* when that happens.
The downside, as has happened in both my last two tests, is that you may end up with people on different testing schedules.
This month, I had two people with extended time on all sections, and one who had it only on the math sections. Last month, I had two extended time on all sections, one with extended time on verbal, and one with extended time on all sections *and* extended and extra breaks.
That gets complicated, because even with a timer for each set of timing, you also have to give them a 5 minute warning before each section ends, track all the timing on the board somehow, and make sure everyone gets the correct set of directions.
Technically, one is not supposed to do anything other than watch like an eagle over the test takers. Realistically, I know only one human who seems capable of doing that for 5-6 hours at a time (and it's not our site administrator!) The rest of us bring light reading that we will not be totally engrossed in, and walk around the room and look up regularly. (Another reason I like the small rooms: it's much much harder to cheat.)
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Date: 2009-06-08 05:58 pm (UTC)There are three basic levels:
assistant proctor (you help someone else out, and thus get less pay, but it requires less skill and ability to negotiate complicated testing requirements.) I think the pay right now is around $75 for the day.
associate proctor: you're responsible for your own room. Pay right now is right around $100 for a regular time room, and $150 for an extended time room (which is usually what I do)
And then there's the test supervisor (which our head of college counselling does.)
I usually proctor the extended time for two reasons:
a) it's more money (and not a lot more time: the regular time SAT usually ends around 12:30 or 1pm, and the extended finishes around 1:45 or 2.)
b) I really like the smaller rooms - I usually have between 1 and 5 kids, and it's so much *simpler* when that happens.
The downside, as has happened in both my last two tests, is that you may end up with people on different testing schedules.
This month, I had two people with extended time on all sections, and one who had it only on the math sections. Last month, I had two extended time on all sections, one with extended time on verbal, and one with extended time on all sections *and* extended and extra breaks.
That gets complicated, because even with a timer for each set of timing, you also have to give them a 5 minute warning before each section ends, track all the timing on the board somehow, and make sure everyone gets the correct set of directions.
Technically, one is not supposed to do anything other than watch like an eagle over the test takers. Realistically, I know only one human who seems capable of doing that for 5-6 hours at a time (and it's not our site administrator!) The rest of us bring light reading that we will not be totally engrossed in, and walk around the room and look up regularly. (Another reason I like the small rooms: it's much much harder to cheat.)