Scanning Operations at Penn State
Hours for spring 2008 final exams
- Monday, May 5, through Thursday, May 8
- 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Friday, May 9
- 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday, May 10
- 9:00 a.m. - noon
Scanning Operations processes scan sheets used to capture course-related assessments, such as quizzes, exams, homework, and surveys. Contact our offices in 105 Pollock Building to setup your course each semester and then deliver the completed scan sheets along with your job request form to us. We will scan your sheets and produce a report that includes student scores and an item analysis, which provides information about the exam's ability to accurately rank students from strong to weak (reliability) and the effectiveness and difficulty of each question. This feedback is useful for improving the testing process. Email us at scan@psu.edu.
Location and Hours:
- Pollock Building is centrally located on Pollock Road, one block from the HUB Parking Deck and is convenient to Campus Shuttle, Blue Loop and CATA busses.
- Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
24-Hour Drop Off:
For your convenience, scan materials may be left after-hours in the drop slot adjacent to the entrance to 105 Pollock. Please review the drop off checklist before placing your materials in the drop slot.Scanning Guide:
The instructor's complete guide to using our services for scanning, analyzing, and reporting exam results.Standard Scanning Forms:
- Request File Set-up Form
Submit this completed form at the beginning of each semester so we can prepare a file that accurately reflects your course assessment plan. - Item Weighting Form
Use this form if you want to assign more points for some questions than for others. - Response Weighting Form
Use this form if you want to assign more points to some responses within a question than others. - Item Unscrambler (5 choice) Form
Use this form if you have multiple versions of a test that have been constructed by scrambling the order of the questions and you want a single item analysis that incorporates data from all versions. If you don’t use the unscrambler, you will receive a separate item analysis for each version of the test. - Response Unscrambler (5 choice) Form
Use this form if you have multiple versions of a test that have been constructed by scrambling the order of the responses and you want a single item analysis that incorporates data from all versions. If you don’t use the unscrambler, you will receive a separate item analysis for each version of the test. - Order scan sheets online
Use this online form to place orders for scan sheets. If you prefer to use paper, you may also mail or fax a printable copy of the order form.
Creating Multiple Versions of a Test:
Everything you need to know about creating multiple versions of a scanned exam.Web-based Access:
Use this secure site to track the status of a scan job, release e-mail feedback to students, and make score key changes from a remote location. You can also use the web page to download a 'comma separated value' (.csv) file of student scores that can be imported directly to the Penn State Grade Book in ANGEL or used in your own grade book.Adding your scores to ANGEL:
Quick and easy, step-by-step instructions for adding your scores to ANGEL.In addition to scanning services for course-related assessments, we also provide scanning and reporting services for instructional, institutional, or research surveys as well as conference or course evaluations (non-SRTE). Please contact us prior to administering the survey so we can help you choose the best method of data collection which will make both our job processing the forms and your job collecting the data easier. The survey report includes, for each item, the number of people who answered the item, the number of people who omitted the item, the mean and standard deviation, and the percentage of responses. In some instances there may be a charge for the services.