Remark Classic OMR 4 has many new features. The following list provides an overview of what is new in this version.
Remark Quick Stats New & Improved Reports
- Question Mean Report. This new survey tabulation report shows each question on the form, along with the minimum and maximum responses, mean and a bar chart of the mean.
- Student Response Report. This new test grading report shows a matrix of all the students and test questions, the answer chosen, and a color code to indicate whether it was the correct response. It provides fast insight into both student and question performance.
- Demographic Grade Report. This new version of the Comparative Grade report allows you to compare up to three regions in your data in a table format (as compared to the Demographic Comparison Report that is in hierarchical format).
- Basic Item Analysis/Condensed Test Report. This new report for both tests and surveys provides a condensed view of all questions on the form, response frequencies and means. For test grading, it optionally shows test score information, such as min, max, and mean scores, standard deviation, prevalent non-distractors and class performance by upper and lower percentages.
- Detailed Item Analysis Report. Cumulative and Valid Percent statistics can be turned off in the Detailed Item Analysis report for surveys.
- Student Statistics Report. T-Score, Z-Score, ETS Score, and Dev. IQ have been added to the Student Statistics Report (shown optionally).
- Condensed Item Analysis Report. Colors have been added to the bar charts on Condensed Item Analysis report to highlight the correct answer and the distractors chosen when performing test grading.
- Test Item Statistics Report. Several enhancements have been made to the Test Item Statistics report to make it more readable, including: renaming Benchmark P-Value to Benchmark, changing the P-value to a straight percentage, renaming Benchmark % as Percent Correct and changing the value to a straight percentage, and adding options for each of the columns to be shown/hidden.
- Response Reports. Response reports can now be sorted by Respondent ID or Response.
Remark Quick Stats New Features
- Report Batch Wizard. The Report Batch Wizard allows you to select, print and export multiple reports at one time. In addition, you can apply filters that will automatically execute as the reports are run (e.g., filter the grades based on teacher). Report Batch Wizard configuration files can be set up and reused.
- NA (Non Applicable) Answer Choices. You may exclude NA answer choices from your analysis reports, providing you with more accurate means and statistics. For example, if your answer choices are Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, NA: if someone chooses NA, you can have it not count in the statistics, but still be able to see how many respondents chose the NA response.
- Scaled Scores. The Grade Wizard supports “scaling” a score, whereby you look up grades in a table and then apply the scaled score from the external file. You can define a default scaled score lookup for the overall test and for learning objectives. Scaled scores can look up by either total score, percent score or percentile. The following grade reports support the scaled score: Student Statistics Report, Student Grade Report, Comparative Grade Report, Demographic Grade Report and Student Response Report.
- Support for Multiple Versions of an Answer. You can enter various versions of an answer and have them all treated as the correct response. For example, if .25 and ¼ are both correct, using the Grade Wizard you can instruct the software to allow either answer to be considered correct.
- Turning Off Subjective Questions Using Easy Grade. When using Easy Grade, if a subjective question is left blank or contains non-numeric data, it is excluded from the grade operation (marked as not graded/not subjective). Otherwise, if the subjective question contains a numeric value, that value is used as the total possible subjective points for the question.
- Blackboard Export. The ability to export grades to Blackboard has been added. A Blackboard Building Block is available to streamline importing grades into Blackboard.
- Screen Captures. You may access a screen capture utility in Remark Quick Stats to capture portions of reports (e.g., graphs to place in other applications).
- Data Groups. When analyzing multiple data sets together, you can enter a descriptive name for each data set. That name can then be used to filter data in Remark Quick Stats, as well as on certain reports, such as the Demographic Comparison, Comparative Grade and Comparative Item reports. This feature is useful for comparing data sets.
- Importing and Exporting of Grade Scales: You can import and export grade scales for the purposes of sharing them via the Remark Quick Stats Preferences.
Data Saving & Exporting Enhancements
- Microsoft Office 2010 Support. The Access® and Excel® 2010 file formats are supported anywhere database formats are supported (e.g., database lookup, saving data, exporting report data).
- SQL Server and Oracle Support. You may save data to the SQL Server and Oracle formats without going through an ODBC connection.
- Save Data Builder. You can customize the data saving process by including a region from your data set in the file name. For example, if you are processing exams and wanted the data file to be saved by instructor, you could use the instructor region from the database as the base name.
- Save All Data. You can save multiple data files to a master data file with the click of a button. This feature allows you to easily combine related data (data that originates from the same template).
- SPSS File Format Enhancements:
- The eight character region name limit has been removed. Region names up to 64 characters are now supported when saving to the SPSS format.
- You no longer have to set up questions that allow more than one response as Boolean regions. The software breaks apart the multiple responses into separate questions when saving to the SPSS format.
- Numeric regions that contain missing data now use the designated missing value (e.g., -1, 99, etc.) instead of 0 when exporting to SPSS.
- The Advanced window is available when saving data to the SPSS format so that you can chose what regions to include and set region sizes for your data set.
- Email. An email option is available in the Remark Classic OMR Data Center and Remark Quick Stats to email data and reports as attachments. You can use Remark’s built-in email client in conjunction with your SMTP server or Microsoft Outlook®.
- Send Wizard. A Send wizard was added to move files via FTP or email with minimal interaction. You can send data and reports from a folder on your computer or network to an FTP site or via email using your own SMTP server. You can set up profiles to be reused as needed.
General New Features
- Windows 7 Support. Windows 7 is fully supported in both 32 and 64-bit versions. (Note: If your scanner requires a driver, check with the scanner manufacturer for Windows 7 compliant drivers.)
- Database Lookup for Multiple Pieces of Data. You can use the Database Lookup feature to pull more than one piece of data from your external database. This feature is great for looking up identifiers and pulling demographic information from external files into your Remark data (e.g., looking up a student identification number and pulling in names and other demographics).
- All Response Option for Multiple Choice Questions. Multiple choice questions can output all responses chosen (instead of MULT) even when only one is allowed. For test grading, this makes it easy to allow different correct answers without rescanning forms.
- Respondent Detection. You can detect who has and has not completed your form by using Respondent Detection in conjunction with Database Lookup. Using the information from the external database, you can verify which respondents exist in the scanned data file.
- Review Exceptions. A Review Exceptions utility is included with the software that cycles through the open data set and searches for any data exceptions (blank responses, multiple responses, etc.).
- Review Duplicates. You can review data files for duplicate entries based on a piece of data. For example, you can check for duplicate student identification numbers and then choose whether to discard duplicates.
- Logging of Changes. Changes to data sets can be logged in a password protected Access database.
- Automation Wizard. An Automation Wizard is included with the software that allows you to set up executable files that perform basic software functions. For example, you can choose a template to open, initiate the scanning process, save the data and run specific reports by setting up an Automation Wizard file that executes these commands.
- Freezing Columns/Rows. You can freeze columns and rows in the Data Center so that when scrolling, they are always visible.
- Auto Check for Updates. A method for checking for software updates was added to the Help menu and program preferences.
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