Optical Mark Recognition service update

February 20, 2013OMR, Online marking Standard

Some colleagues may not be aware that the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) service continues to be widely used here at Loughborough as a way of delivering exams.

In Semester 1:

• There were 55 OMR exams. 24 were combined question/answer format.
• This represents a 19% increase compared to semester 1 2011-12
• The total numbers of papers printed (including spares) was: 7618
• The total number of OMR exam papers sat was: 6613
• The total number of OMR questions taken and marked was: 332,135

332,135 questions marked automatically… How long would these have taken to mark ‘manually’? If we assume that each question would take, say, 5 seconds, that would equate to 460 hours of marking. So, OMR as a technical approach to assessment still has efficiency savings to offer.

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