Advantages of AVANTE test form scoring and test grading system, survey form tabulation system and census tabulation system and solution with census survey form for automatic data capturing and tabulation over traditional OMR and OCR form scoring solutions:
- The first test scoring system to achieve less than 1 error in 1.5 million marks during testing by an independent testing laboratory responsible for testing election equipment and ballots. The same error-free tabulation method is adapted for test scoring and grading, and survey tabulation.
- The first system capable of scaling to paper size fluctuations from moisture and feeding alignment errors for dramatic reduction in standardized test scoring.
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The first system to allow automatic evaluation of light marks and smeared marks without having to manually retrieve or re-scan the test or survey forms.
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The best competitive solutions can boast 99.99% accuracy which is actually 100 times less accurate than our solution.
- Software based test grading and assessment solution and survey scoring solution use commercial-off-the-shelf document imaging scanners from about $500 that scan 20 pages per minute adequate for classroom use. Higher volume systems scan over 100 pages per minute appropriate for scoring SAT tests.
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Most traditional systems use Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or discrete sensor scanners that require specialized equipment costing at least 2-4 times more.
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- Flexible "Test and Assessment Management Software Systems" for standardized test or custom test preparation and grading for a large country or a small school classroom grading assessment with the same accuracy and "Survey Management Software Systems" to help large opinion polling agencies to prepare surveys and tabulate as needed.
- Educators can prepare and print standardized or classroom tests on standard plain office paper and a laser printer. Similar to preparing a simple Word document. Most traditional systems use Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or discrete sensor scanners that require specialized equipment costing at least 2-4 times more.
- Most traditional systems print tests and surveys on specialized paper forms
- Standard forms costs more.
- Pollsters can prepare and print their survey form, census form, and data collection from in-house on any paper stock or for high volume concerns send to a professional printer.
- All standard demographic data including addresses and names that often needs keying in are captured automatically.
- One of the first system to provide digital images (pictures) of tests and surveys. Written portions of the answers are displayed on a screen for comments and scoring.
- The digital images also provide an electronic audit to enhance creditability of polls and surveys.
- The images of the essay portion of public exams can be distributed to scorers with varied backgrounds.
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) tools are used as needed for both type-written and manually written answers deciphering respectively.
AVANTE'S Accurate Test Scoring Solution, Survey Tabulation Solution and Automatic Census Tabulation Solution are 2nd Generation Automatic Data Capturing Solutions for Government Polls, Public Surveys and Census Questionnaires, for Unparalleled Accurate Classroom Test Grading and Assessment and for Statewide and National Standardized (SAT) Tests Scoring and Assessement
The unparalleled test grading accuracy, and accurate data capturing of the AVANTE test scoring solution is achieved with its patented quantitative pixel counting that scale to accommodate paper expansion or shrinkage. These patented technologies have been extended for use in survey tabulation and census tabulation system and solution from survey form and data collection form.
Thsee test grading and assessment solution, survey and census solutions are coupled with the flexibility of the test and survey form preparation. This form generation software enables users to make their own test sheets, survey forms and census forms using standard copying papers that can be scanned with a commercial-off-the-shelf document-imaging scanner.
Traditionally, small-scale tests and surveys are scored or counted by hand. The increase needs and use of assessment and testing solution in classes of different subjects to enhance education achievements have made that difficult and burdensome to educators. AVANTE provides a patented test scoring solution and test assessement and grading system using low cost test and assessment forms that can be printed on demand and scanned for tabulation using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) document imaging scanner. This patented test assessment and grading solution requirements start from a few hundred dollars for a class room environment requiring 20 sheet per minute to systems working at speed of over 100 sheets per minute for national scale application. It is ideal for public standardized test scoring applications as well as common daily classroom test and assessment preparation and grading.
Most of automatic test grading and assessment solutions use uses standardized ovals test forms and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) technologies that have been used for the last 50 years without much improvements. Besides periodic errors made for large scale test scoring such as SAT and statewide test assessment and grading, for most part, they are used extensively. The main issue for smaller scale testing in classroom is that the schools and institutions are the logistics of stocking pre-printed and costly test forms of different formats.
Even for the largest scale of survey and census such as national, state, provincial or organizational census and survey that are large in scale, many of the data are still not captured automatically and requires keying in from written form. In countries such as United States and European Countries with substantial population, the costs of census solution can amount to billion of dollars. The special forms themselves can cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The keying in of some of the data can amount to even more.
The AVANTE Optical Scan Test Scoring System, Automatic Survey Tabulation System and Automatic Census Data Capturing and Tabulation System for grading and assessment of tests, tabulation surveys, and automatic data capturing from census form is a spin-off application of the company's patented voting ballot tabulation solution that revolutionized ballot counting accuracy and integrity. By using an off-the-shelf scanner and standard copying paper, we provide test scoring and surveying at drastically reduced costs with even more dramatic reduction of all scoring errors (proven and independently tested to accuracy of less than one error in 1,500,000 marks).
Two test assessment and grading solutions are available with the use of this patented technology in test scoring:
- System that decouple the test generation and test grading (Preparation of tests anywhere with anymeans and scoring with traditional OMR on standard test form):
- Students marks on standardized test grading forms of multiple choice test sheets printed on-demand with laser or inkjet printer on standard copying papers.
- Multiple choices tests.
- Scan to capture and store digital images of all test sheets.
- Scoring of tests the similar to traditional OMR test scoring systems.
- Provide statistics of test results along with individual scores.
- System that couples test generation and test grading:
- Use AVANTE test and assessment generation program.
- Multiple choices and/or written answers in any combination.
- Print tests on standard copy paper along with choices next to the question.
- Scan to capture and store digital images of all test sheets.
- Score and generate statistics of test results along with individual scores.
Leveraging the company's expertise in registering voters and other similar personal identification systems, AVANTE can help testing authorities and government agencies with similar biometric identification solutions for those taking public tests. Detailed registration of persons performing the tests or being surveyed can be captured with a combination of OMR, OCR and ICR technologies.
UNPARALLELED FLEXIBILITY IN SURVEY FORM AND CENSUS FORM DATA CAPTURING AND TABULATION:
In the case of survey sheet tabulation, AVANTE offers one of the most flexible survey form and census form preparation and automatic data capturing and tabulation solution with the following unparalleled advantages:
- Each survey or census question can be formatted with any number of choices and combination of choices.
- The layout of questions is flexible to fit any design for the best reflection of the intended survey.
- Written comments when applicable can be extracted for tabulation. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) tools are used as needed for both type-written and manually written answers deciphering respectively.
- Each survey and census can unique for a group or for an individual for special applications.
- Survey and census forms are capable in directly and automatically includes all alphanumerics for date, addresses, and all demographic information.
The followins are examples of the flexbility of survey and census form generation and accurate data capturing and tabulation capability via the AVANTE patented imaging, scaling and mark recognition technology:
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