ParSCORE for Scantron

Your students should buy Form ParSCORE F-1712 (200 questions), X-101864 (100 questions), or F-14507 (20 questions) from the Bookstore at Oakland University.

Announce to students--Fill in the ID Number as their Grizzly ID without the G in front. Or if students don't remember that, it has to be 8 digits that are different from any other student. This will allow the software to automatically enroll each student in the program. The scantron machine will reject those forms without the 8 digit ID.

Also announce to students--In the field, Test Form, students must fill in A if there is only one version of the test, or whichever version that you designate them to take, whether A, B, C, etc. The machine won't accept the form if this field is blank.

Scantron Tech Support is 800-445-3141, who welcome faculty calls. Have a specific question and mention that you are faculty from Oakland University.

The location of the Scantron machines at Oakland University are at:

• 220 Dodge Hall
• 207 Varner Hall
• The Nursing School

You may acquire an account from UTS from the General Account Request Form

UTS will also install the software at your desk--call the Helpdesk at x4357.

I. Login

1. Double-click the icon for Par SCORE which is on the desktop.
   • ID: email prefix (e.g. if your email is jones23@oakland.edu, then your login ID would be: jones23
   • Password: same email  prefix (e.g. jones23)

II. Create a Course

1. Click on New and fill in the information.

• Instructor's Name: Give your name
• Course#: Put the course's Oakland University five-digit CRN number, semester, F, W, SP, or SU,and year, 04. (For example, a course with the CRN number of 45678 which takes place in the Fall of 2004, would be 45678F04). Don't use spaces; the system will not accept a folder name with spaces.
• Course Title: Put in the Department and number, e.g. ART 305
• Ignore the Description, Time, Day, and Term fields. Click OK.



2. Click on the SELECT button to select the default folder (q:\parlan), click on your department folder, and when the question, "Would you like to create a subfolder?" comes up, answer, "Yes". Enter the new folder name which would be the same as the Course # above. Click OK. An information box will come up, click OK again.



3. To open up the course and work on it,  click on the course ID in the above list. In the Secondary User box, click on the arrow of the drop down menu and select the term, "datamaster" and click Open. *Note that the course may take a few seconds to load, so be patient.

III. Create test columns.

1. Make certain that you are under the Roster Tab.
2. Click on the birthday candle icon (6th icon from the right). Type the number of columns needed in each category. e.g., if you have 12 quizzes for the semester, type 12 into the 'number of columns' field for the 'quizzes' row. Putting in the possible score is optional. Click Add.

IV. Keys

1. Click on the Keys Tab.You need one key for each version (one form for each test version with the answers bubbled in correctly).
2. Turn on the Scantron machine at the back, right corner switch.
3. Push the flatbed down on the Scantron machine. Load all the key forms for all the test versions in the machine, with the bar code side towards you.
4. Click the Scan Keys button on the ParSCORE software screen.
5. Push the flatbed up when the definitions have finished loading and push the End button on the machine when the forms have gone through it.

V. Process the Forms

1. Click on Scoring Tab.
2. Choose the relevant quiz in the little Category selection window.
3. Make certain that Auto-enrollment is checked under that Options menu--this will add your students' names in automatically.
4. As well, check Reprocess Forms with Errors. This will filter out all the forms with errors so that you can run them through again at the end instead of stopping along the way.
5. Push the flatbed down on the Scantron machine and load all the key forms for all the test versions in the machine, with the bar code side towards you. *Note. You may load the different versions mixed together as long as the versions are marked in the Test Form box on the scantron form.
6. Click Score button on the ParSCORE software screen.
7. Push the flatbed up when the definitions have finished loading. The corrected forms will go in the bottom bin closest to you. If a form is rejected because the student ID doesn't have 8 numbers bubbled correctly, the form will shuffle to the top bin. In the Edit box, adjust the Student ID to 8 numbers and click Enroll. On Edit Student Enrollment click OK. An "Edit Student Enrollment" box will pop up, so click OK.
8. Push the End button on the machine when all forms have scanned through it.
   
   
   

VI. Scores

1. Click on the Roster Tab.  View score as Raw or another choice in the right hand pull down menu.

2. On the top menu, choose Report and pick Roster Report for the grades and/or Item Analysis Report for a statistical analysis of the questions and answers.

    

Fill in a heading, Either choose All categories for reports on all of the quiz/test columns or Selective Categories for a report on a particular quiz. Then select which quiz you want. Click Print.

3. On the top menu, choose Options and choose Export Student Response Data. Choose the quiz or test that you want to export and select the Export Student Response Data With box. Hold the Control key (Option key on the Mac) and choose the columns you want to export. This will let you download the student responses in a comma-delimited file which can be brought into Excel.

4. When the box comes up, click on the Export Student Response Data With checkbox and in the box beneath that click on the items you want to have in the comma-delimited file. If you want to select multiple options you can hold down the Control key and click on the various choices. When you are finished, click Export.

5. Save the Data to your own floppy disk, Zip disk, or USB drive.