2003 — Bethan Marshall, "Why is Shakespeare being dumbed down?", The Independent, 13 February 2003:
And I do not want any falsely trendy, parsimonious, ticky box examination system to get between pupils and their opportunity to engage with the great dramatist.
2006 — Kay Sambell, Liz McDowell, and Alistair Sambell, "Supporting diverse students: developing learner autonomy via assessment", in Innovative Assessment in Higher Education (eds. Cordelia Bryan and Karen Clegg), Routledge (2006), →ISBN, page 164:
At college I took a sort of ticky box approach to doing my work. I'd say to myself, right, I've done that, I've measured that, I've read that.
2009 — Ian McDonald, "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", in Cyberabad Days, Gollancz (2009), →ISBN, page 256:
Way down the list of ticky boxes on Dr Rao's shopping list was one I suspect Lakshmi's parents had fielded blindly.
2009 — Leigh Keeble, Brian D. Loader, & Michael Hardey, "Partnership in assessment? A case study of integrated information sharing", in Digital Welfare for the Third Age: Heath and Social Care Informatics for Older People (eds. Brian D. Loader, Michael Hardey, & Leigh Keeble), Routledge (2009), →ISBN, page 32:
First, the social workers regarded the process of inputting data as akin to 'clinical' box ticking or what several described as the 'ticky box syndrome'.