Margaret Rutherford
Staff Development
Technology Specialist
Victoria ISD
Victoria, Texas
The Challenge:
The challenge was to process surveys designed, distributed and collected by someone else.
The Solution:
"Early this Fall, a principal of an elementary campus asked if I could help her create a teacher and parent survey to collect data for a grant. Agreeing to help, I waited for the draft of her form to arrive, so that I could create a survey form using Principia's guidelines for use with Remark Office OMR. Then I could create the template and copy the form for all the campuses to be surveyed."
"A few weeks later, the principal came to my office with six sets of surveys completed by teachers and parents." The principal had typed out the form, duplicated it and gave it to teachers and sent it home to parents. The parent survey forms had been folded, crumbled and some had small tears. I found out that the children had taken the forms home and returned these in every imaginable condition!"
"Both the teacher and parent survey forms had columns that did not line up. The bubbles were marked in many ways. Some respondents had marked lines through the bubbles and some made large Xs extending above and below the bubbles. Every color of ink pen and marker had been used. To make matters worse, there was not a single blank form left to scan to create a template."
"I did not think that Remark Office OMR could handle the situation, but I also knew that the survey forms would take a long time to tally by hand. With some work, I was able to create a template and scan the surveys. Then, I tallied the surveys and created the final reports. Our Title I coordinator who was writing the grant was very pleased with the professional looking reports!"
"With Remark Office OMR, I've been able to help more individuals conduct surveys and needs assessments. This software provides an inexpensive way to effectively assess needs and evaluate programs. It has saved time and has been a means to deliver meaningful services."
Click here to see some of Ms. Rutherford's sample forms.
Institutional Research - Check out how Savannah College of Art and Design handles an internally developed survey given annually for 2500 respondents using Remark Office OMR and Remark Web Survey.
Institutional Effectiveness - Find out how Susan Evans was able to collect over 2000 responses and analyze data over a 9 day period using Remark Office OMR and Remark Web Survey.
Quality Assurance Program - St. Patrick’s College was undergoing an important quality assurance program involving both internal and external evaluators. Learn how they used Remark Office OMR to process their data.
Using Remark Office OMR for Course and Instructor Evaluations- Find out how Tiffany Martinez at the University of New Haven uses Remark Office OMR to process course evaluations in a timely, cost-effective manner.
Croatian University Uses Remark to Grade Thousands of Tests - Find out how the University of Rjeka corrects 50,000 tests every three weeks using Remark Office OMR.
Evaluate Impact of Professional Development Programs - Learn how Rebekah Nix was able to replace using transparent answer keys and reduce costs with Remark Office OMR.
Grading Biology Exams at a Large State University - See how Michael Wagenheim used Remark Office OMR to scan over 12,000 multiple choice biology tests per year and save money.
No such thing as a perfect form - Margaret Rutherford at Victoria ISD using Remark Office OMR to collect data for a grant.
Grading Assessments for Title IIB Grants - Learn how Capital Area Intermediate Assessments using Remark Office OMR to collect and analyze data from a variety of assessments, surveys, and evaluations under very tight deadlines.
Collect and Analyze Test Data for Title I - See how Tom Hays reduced the amount of time to collect data for Title I using Remark Office OMR.
Remarkable Changes to Instruction - After Tom Hays proved the feasibility and usability of Remark Office OMR for collecting data, his next challenge was to improve instruction in the elementary schools.
Remarkable Addition to Data Collection - Tom Hays discusses the remarkable addition to the data collection efforts: Evaluation of the kindergarten program through two assessments.
The Beginning of a Remarkable Relationship - The beginning of Tom Hays with Remark Office OMR.
Scanning Technology Conquers Common Testing Dilemmas - See how Dr. Bill Palya, Professor of Psychology at Jacksonville State University used Remark Classic OMR to enhance teaching and learning by enabling more frequent testing, improving test result analysis, and decreasing a student's ability to cheat.
How a Leading Hospital Uses Remark Office OMR® for Regulatory Compliance - Stephanie P provides overall management for the Patient Care Services Performance Improvement program that includes seven Quality Indicators. Patient data is analyzed and benchmarked against other hospitals. Reports are then provided to internal management and outside regulatory agencies.
Gravic's Contribution to Volunteerism - The challenge was to collect data from thousands of evaluation forms completed by participants in the Presidential Summit on Volunteerism held in Philadelphia.
Little League Assessments - Creating fair and balanced little league teams is a very complex process. Glenmoore Eagle Little League strives to create teams with a 50/50 win-to-loss ratio, making the season enjoyable for all the children and parents. In the past this goal was achieved by manually entering talent ratings of every child into a spreadsheet. This was a painstakingly slow process, so three years ago they started using Remark Office OMR® to scan and process player evaluation forms saving an enormous amount of time and effort for the volunteers who perform these functions.
Football Pool - The End Zone Bar & Grill is a sports bar that runs both a weekly and an annual NFL football pool. Employees had to manually check the weekly sheets, then sort and enter data from these sheets to keep a tally for the yearly pool. This process was enormously time-consuming, as there were 500-600 sheets per week to be processed.
