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Reliable Image Quality Key To Testing Accuracy For Data Recognition Corporation
DRC captures, assembles and scores testing data that impacts the futures of thousands of students each year. Educational testing is their largest segment, but the company also provides survey solutions, and document services to the Federal government, healthcare, financial and other markets.
Bubbles vs. Erasers
In student assessments, multiple-choice responses are "bubbled in" by pencil, while constructed handwritten responses such as essays or math problems are completed by each student. An elaborate software-based process identifies the constructed responses and then determines whether "bubbled in" marks were intended or erased. This post-scanning evaluation depends on a very accurate initial capture.
For the constructed responses, students must also show their work, and live readers must score these responses. In years past, DRC operators had to separate booklet pages that had constructed reader-scored responses and route those pages to a scoring center.
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