Scanning Operations processes scan sheets used to capture course-related assessments, such as quizzes, exams, homework, and surveys. After scanning your sheets, a report is produced 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 with your questions.

Location

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.

Drop slot

For your convenience, scan materials may be left between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. in the drop slot adjacent to the entrance to 105 Pollock. Please review the drop off checklist (pdf) before placing your materials in the drop slot.

Setting up your course for the semester

Scanning guide

The Complete Instructor's Guide (pdf) to using our services for scanning, analyzing, and reporting exam results.

How to order scan sheets

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 (pdf) of the order form.

Web-based access

Use this secure site to 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.

• Request file set-up form (pdf)
  Submit this form at the beginning of each semester so we can prepare a file that accurately reflects your course assessment plan.
• Item weighting form (pdf)
  Use this form if you want to assign more points for some questions than for others.
• Response weighting form (pdf)
  Use this form if you want to assign more points to some responses within a question than others.
• Item unscrambler (5 choice) form (pdf)
  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 (pdf)
  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.