Scantron Corporation is an American company based in
Eagan, Minnesota. Scantron provides assessment solutions and technology services for business, education, certification, and government clients.
Scantron Assessment Solutions deals with scanner manufacturing, forms printing, computer-based testing, and the creation of test questions by
psychometricians. It operates in 98% of the US school districts, 56 countries, 48 ministries of education, and 94 of the top 100 US universities. The company is well-known for their
machine-readable paper forms on which students mark answers to
multiple-choice test questions and the
optical mark recognition (OMR) and imaging
scanners that read them. To analyze those answers, the machines use OMR- and image-based data collection
software. In addition to its forms and scanners, Scantron provides web- and desktop-based assessment software, such as Performance Series.
Scantron Technology Solutions provides managed technology support for IT endpoints and devices. In 2022, Scantron acquired ServRight to further extend its technology capabilities.
Scantron is wholly owned by Transom Capital Group, which took place in December 2019. Scantron was a member of the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from 2010 until it resigned from the organization in 2012.
See also
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Mark sense
Electrographic is a term used for punched-card and page-scanning technology that allowed cards or pages marked with a pencil to be processed or converted into punched cards. The primary developer of electrographic systems was IBM, who used ma ...
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Tabulating machine
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Optical mark recognition
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Optical character recognition
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Course evaluation
References
Companies based in Eagan, Minnesota
Optical character recognition
Commercial computer vision systems
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