The Word Proctor Research Paper

Contrary to some misinformed bloggers on the internet the word proctor does not share its roots with proctology. The word “proctor” is a contracted form of “procurator” dating back to the 13th and 14th century. In the 13th century directly from latin the word, “procurator” was used for “manager, overseer, agent or deputy”(Douglas Harper, 2016) This makes some sense, in the U.K. the deputy that roams the halls and maintains order and discipline is called a proctor. Today in North America the term “proctor” the noun is accepted to have the meaning, “a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.”, while "proctor, proctored, proctoring" the verb is "the act of supervising or monitoring"(Dictionary.com,2016). Some of the required