I read on the Internet that ETS has acquired Wheebox, a remote proctoring firm. I’ve written here before about how testing firms really ought to do proctoring in-house, so this makes me happy. Obviously it is too soon to tell if Wheebox will eventually replace Meazure Learning/ProctorU as the proctor of ETS’s major tests, but one imagines that it is a possibility.
Longtime readers will remember that ETS purchased Prometric shortly after the launch of the TOEFL iBT. Though ETS took a very hands-off approach to Prometric, that purchase may have played a big part in ETS’s remarkably smooth transition to the new version of the test. It also turned out to be a smart business move, as Prometric was sold for more than twice its purchase price about a decade later.