We Have the Assessment Know-How that You Are Looking For
Inexpensive paper-based and hybrid assessment solutions. Automated integration of test data with your gradebook software. Prompt delivery of test results to the teachers who need them. Outsource your assessment partially or completely or process your forms on-site, using your own Apperson desktop scanner with advanced capabilities.
Our Menu Approach Lets you Choose One Service
or a Fully-Outsourced Solution
Depending on the unique needs and preferences of your school or district, our specialized teams can take full responsibility for all aspects of your assessment project or just handle some of them for you:
Consulting & Project Management
All the help you need to build an integrated assessment solution for your school or district.
Form Design
The form you need is either in stock at Apperson, or we can custom-design it for you.
Form Printing
Precise data collection begins with Apperson forms, precision-printed and unconditionally guaranteed to work in your scanner.
Pre-Slugging
Ensure testing accuracy by eliminating human and processing errors by pre-slugging (preprinting) the form with variable data identifying each respondent.
Test Booklets
Our digital and offset printing capabilities make us an excellent choice for test booklet printing. We can ship your test booklets with your test forms for a simplified implementation.
Fulfillment & Distribution
We sort, pack, and ship from thousands to millions of test forms per day around the country.
Test Scoring
Fast, accurate test scoring at your site or ours; we score millions of test forms for the nation’s largest districts.
Managed Scanning
Our two scanning facilities can process over 400,000 test forms per day. Each has the ability to turn data around in as little as 24 hours.
Reporting
Our scanning department provides custom reports within 24-48 hrs of receiving your data; using our DataLink™ software, all Apperson scanners instantly send test results to your PC.
State-of-the-Art Assessment Service Bureau
Each of our two scanning facilities—one on either coast—maintains large arrays of production-level scanners for a combined net-rated scanning capacity of 75,000 documents per hour. If demand peaks, each facility can quickly add capacity, by installing additional equipment on short notice. Both facilities use a range of OMR and image scanning technology to handle the variety of data we process daily:
Optical Mark Read (OMR)
This fastest, least expensive method reads the pencil-marks indicating responses on multiple-choice tests, surveys, ballots, and questionnaires.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
By utilizing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, your data is captured within seconds. With high accuracy, our data-capture software extracts information from paper, fax, email or web documents and translates the images into data that is useful to you. Optical Character Recognition systems like ours can capture, interpret, verify and transfer information, from any source to any system, making document processing faster and easier.
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
Intelligent Character Recognition technology, otherwise known as ICR, is a method of capturing handwritten information from your forms, surveys or documents. When your forms are scanned, the software will read the ICR-readable fields within your template. Any character in an ICR field that falls outside of the tolerances set in your template will be flagged for human verification. The ICR “smart” process allows for easy organization, sorting, retrieval and analysis of your open-ended answers in handwritten fields.