Apperson Education Products to Relieve Time Burdens of
No Child Left Behind Act
Teachers Still Struggling with Stress and Lack of Time Low-Cost, Speedy
Scanners Promise to "Give Teachers Back Their Time to Teach"
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – When the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of January 2002
mandated annual assessments for students, no one foresaw the resulting administrative burden that
testing would place on the nation’s educators. As testing has increased over the years, to help
students monitor their academic progress in preparing for the NCLB assessments, the pressure on
teachers has continued to increase. Teachers have struggled to balance NCLB requirements and their
responsibilities for creating daily lesson plans, preparing for parent conferences, grading homework
and teaching a full day.
One Company’s Goal: To Give Teachers Back Their Time to Teach
After examining the time challenge teachers face today, one company in the educational field made a
commitment to "give teachers back their time to teach," by providing test scoring equipment that
would conserve their most important resource—time. As a result of that commitment, Apperson Education
Products, a division of Apperson Print Resources, Inc., and a specialist in test scoring solutions,
has designed a new generation of test scanners that can score a test in seconds, yet are affordable
enough to be made widely available in classrooms throughout the country.
"Time spent in the classroom is just the tip of the iceberg for teachers," says
Bill Apperson, CEO of Apperson Education Products, "which is why our products for test scoring and
reporting are designed to save teachers time." While each of the new Apperson scanners has its own
unique features, all of them were designed to operate as a stand-alone machine, as they would need to in a
classroom environment. All three scanners allow students to insert their own tests into the machines,
so teachers don’t have to. And all three have simple controls, minimizing the time and effort
required to operate them.
Apperson scanners can also provide teachers with on-demand reports of
students’ test scores. Apperson's DataLink™ software makes this possible by connecting the
scanner directly to a school’s computer to download test data. "Our teachers love the
DataLink™ software. They can print an item analysis of the test scores within a matter of
seconds and review it to determine which subjects need more work," said Melissa Cobian, a librarian
at Olive Peirce Middle School of Ramona, CA. Olive Peirce is just one of the 10,000 schools that
have adopted the Apperson solution in an effort to reclaim time for their teachers. "Meeting NCLB
requirements has increased burdens on teachers and school district administrators enormously,"
said Apperson. "So, when we receive feedback from teachers on how our test scoring equipment has
eliminated hours of tedious grading, it is extremely rewarding."
Contact:
Kerry Bobeczko-Lupperger
kbobeczko@appersonprint.com
562.356.3333 ext. 1053
Established in 1955, Apperson enables education, corporate, and government
organizations to quickly capture the data and information they need to accurately assess performance
and measure success. For more information, please call 800.827.9219 or visit the Apperson website at
www.appersonedu.com
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