Questionmark™ Perception™ Printing and Scanning

Although online assessment delivery offers many benefits, sometimes the traditional paper-and-pencil method is simply more practical. Printing and Scanning is an assessment printing and scanning solution for Perception that enables users to author assessments in Perception that participants may read and answer on paper. Participant responses can then be scanned and uploaded to Perception for scoring and reporting.

• Authoring and item banking in Perception
• Blended assessment delivery
• Integrated reporting of test results
• Quick, comprehensive reports
• Compatibility with many scanning systems

• Print from Perception: An assessment can be printed out from Authoring Manager onto paper using Microsoft® Word templates. Upon printing, Perception saves an “assessment snapshot” used to score participant responses.
• Deliver on Paper: Participants then take their assessments and submit their responses by marking 'bubble sheets'
• Scan and Upload: Next, the bubble sheets are scanned, and the response data is read by the scanning software which produces an Assessment Data File. Data from this file is uploaded to the Perception database.
• Report on Results: Responses can be analysed using Enterprise Reporter in Enterprise Manager.

• The following scanning technologies can be used with Perception Printing and Scanning:

  • OMR (Optical Mark Reader): Print question sheets and booklets that can be used with standardised answer forms or “bubble sheets” for use with OMR scanners.
  • OCR (Optical Character Reader): Print both questions and response fields onto a single page, a method that can be used in conjunction with certain OCR scanning solutions.