ABSTRACT
Assessment security has long depended on surveillance, dating back at least as far as the first examinations. As assessment security has become increasingly technologised it has come to use increasingly sophisticated surveillance approaches. This chapter explores research from the surveillance studies field and applies it to the field of assessment security. It also draws on existing research that characterises many assessment security approaches as surveillance, as well as the alternatives to surveillance that body of work proposes. The chapter proposes a compromise position, critically accepting the near-inevitability of surveillance as an assessment security approach, and warning of some of the dangers if it gets out of hand.
