Scantron Corporation
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| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | William E. Sanders |
| Headquarters | Eagan, Minnesota, United States |
| Parent | M&F Worldwide |
| Website | www |
Scantron Corporation is an American company based in Eagan, Minnesota. Scantron provides products and services for assessments and surveys world-wide.
Scantron deals with forms printing and scanner manufacturing. It operates in 98% of the US school districts, 56 countries, 48 ministries of education, and 94 of the top 100 US universities. They are best 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.[1]
Scantron is a division of M&F Worldwide. Scantron was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from 2010 until it resigned from the organization in 2012.[2]
See also
- Mark sense
- Tabulating machine
- Optical mark recognition
- Optical character recognition
- Course evaluation
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