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In response to Rosie Porco's request:

PSU has been using an OPSCAN 5 for several years to capture data for grades,
course request, add/drop of classes, admissions, as well as course/faculty
surveys. With the conversion last year to an on-line student registration
system, the OPSCAN as been used solely for grades capture and surveys.

Recently, there has been quite a bit of interest in OMR test-scoring,
especially with the round of budget cuts we have been seeing. Anything to
cut costs!

We currently have a package from Scanning Dynamics named "Bubble Publishing",
which allows us to design and print our own survey and test forms, using any
HP laserjet II or compatible laser printer and plain copy paper. This program
prints its own skunk and timing marks, as well as the "bubbles", so there is
no need to purchase pre-skunked blanks, such as are marketed by NCS and others.

Bubble Publishing produces a variety of reports, including a nice bar chart.
For test scoring, it prints an ID grid to identify the respondent. This grid
may be pre-slugged with the student's number; the name may be preprinted as
well. Test results include a separate report for each student, with both
percentile and letter grades. BP's one drawback is that it is capable of only
single page surveys and tests.

In addition to Bubble Publishing, PSU uses ScanTools from NCS to read OMR
forms for grading and surveys (Bubble Publishing surveys may be read by
ScanTools also, and combined into 'booklets' of several pages). Surveys
read with ScanTools are then tallied using MicroTEST Survey (NCS).