I read today that Meazure Learning (aka “ProctorU”) has acquired rival proctoring company Examity. As readers already know, Meazure Learning is majority owned by private equity firm Gryphon Investors.
Not sure this is great news in terms of test taker experience moving forward. Meazure Learning gets the job done, but there have been complaints about their work from test-takers as long as I’ve been watching. And I worry that consolidation could reduce the motivation of proctoring firms to innovate and improve.
To be honest, I don’t think that something as important as online test proctoring should be outsourced to private equity. Testing firms should have done this entirely in-house to begin with.