electronic grading of paper assessments
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Slides from a talk given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, CA on JanTRANSCRIPT
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Electronic Grading of Paper Assessments
MAA Session on Mathematics and Technology
San Diego, CaliforniaJanuary 8, 2013
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The Story
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The Story
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The Characters
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The Characters
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The Characters
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The Characters
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The Characters
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The Characters
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The Characters
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Scanning
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My Hero: The Fujitsu ScanSnap
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My Hero: The Fujitsu ScanSnap
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My Hero: The Fujitsu ScanSnap
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My Hero: The Fujitsu ScanSnap
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Other possibilities
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Other possibilities
Doxie
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Other possibilities
DoxieAdobe Acrobat Pro
+ any TWAIN-compliant scanner
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Forms
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LaTeX Packages
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LaTeX Packages
• in TeX-Live
• well-maintained
• lightly documented
hyperref.sty
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LaTeX Packages
• in TeX-Live
• well-maintained
• lightly documented
• not in TeX-Live (acrotex.net)
• not actively maintained
• richly documented
• more formatting features
hyperref.sty eforms.sty
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LaTeX Packages
• in TeX-Live
• well-maintained
• lightly documented
• not in TeX-Live (acrotex.net)
• not actively maintained
• richly documented
• more formatting features
hyperref.sty eforms.sty
TikZ for placement
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Checkboxes
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}Correct? \checkBox{myCheck}{10bp}{10bp}{On}\end{document}
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Checkboxes
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}Correct? \checkBox{myCheck}{10bp}{10bp}{On}\end{document}
Correct? ☐
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Radio Buttons
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}Correct? Yes \radioButton{MC1}{10bp}{10bp}{No}No \radioButton{MC1}{10bp}{10bp}{Yes}
\end{document}
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Radio Buttons
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}Correct? Yes \radioButton{MC1}{10bp}{10bp}{No}No \radioButton{MC1}{10bp}{10bp}{Yes}
\end{document}
Correct? ◯ No ◯ Yes
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Pull-down lists\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node at ([xshift=0.5in,yshift=2.25in]current page.south west) {\parbox{1.5cm}{\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }\Ff\FfEdit]{}{1.5cm}{1.0cm}{(0)(1)(2)(3)}}};\end{tikzpicture}
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Pull-down lists\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node at ([xshift=0.5in,yshift=2.25in]current page.south west) {\parbox{1.5cm}{\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }\Ff\FfEdit]{}{1.5cm}{1.0cm}{(0)(1)(2)(3)}}};\end{tikzpicture}
• Pull-down list
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Pull-down lists\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node at ([xshift=0.5in,yshift=2.25in]current page.south west) {\parbox{1.5cm}{\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }\Ff\FfEdit]{}{1.5cm}{1.0cm}{(0)(1)(2)(3)}}};\end{tikzpicture}
• Pull-down list
• half-inch from left edge, 2.25 inch frrom bottom edge
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Pull-down lists\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node at ([xshift=0.5in,yshift=2.25in]current page.south west) {\parbox{1.5cm}{\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }\Ff\FfEdit]{}{1.5cm}{1.0cm}{(0)(1)(2)(3)}}};\end{tikzpicture}
• Pull-down list
• half-inch from left edge, 2.25 inch frrom bottom edge
• 0, 1, 2, 3 or “write-in” other score
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Pull-down lists w/ keys
% ...\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }]{Username}{2in}{1.0cm}{[(Gagner, Liza)(lg271)] [(Hennen, Guy)(gh46)] [(Lach, Gary)(gl923)] [(Osbourn, Julio)(jo77)]%... }
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Pull-down lists w/ keys
% ...\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }]{Username}{2in}{1.0cm}{[(Gagner, Liza)(lg271)] [(Hennen, Guy)(gh46)] [(Lach, Gary)(gl923)] [(Osbourn, Julio)(jo77)]%... }
• Pull-down list
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Pull-down lists w/ keys
% ...\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }]{Username}{2in}{1.0cm}{[(Gagner, Liza)(lg271)] [(Hennen, Guy)(gh46)] [(Lach, Gary)(gl923)] [(Osbourn, Julio)(jo77)]%... }
• Pull-down list
• keys are usernames of each student
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Pull-down lists w/ keys
% ...\comboBox[\textColor{1 0 0 }]{Username}{2in}{1.0cm}{[(Gagner, Liza)(lg271)] [(Hennen, Guy)(gh46)] [(Lach, Gary)(gl923)] [(Osbourn, Julio)(jo77)]%... }
• Pull-down list
• keys are usernames of each student
• pull down menu and pick a name
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Stamping form over documents
$ for file in `ls *_0??.pdf`; do \> pdftk form.pdf multibackground $file output `basename $file .pdf`_form.pdf; \> done
• pdftk is an open-source pdf utility that works on the command line.
• The pdftk invocation makes the test file a background for the form and creates a new file
• The for loop in the bash shell cycles over all pdfs sequentially numbered
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Other methods for stamping
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[pdftex]{eforms}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]\node at (current page.center) {\includegraphics[page=1]{scanned_quiz}};% ... form stuff ...\end{tikzpicture}\clearpage%...
• Use TikZ to include the scanned page and form elements
• Do this once per page
• scriptable
• Can also do a watermark in Acrobat
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Grading
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Desktop Apps for PDF Annotation
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Desktop Apps for PDF Annotation
Adobe Acrobat Pro
($$, Mac/Win)
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Desktop Apps for PDF Annotation
Adobe Acrobat Pro
($$, Mac/Win)
Preview(Free, Mac)
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Desktop Apps for PDF Annotation
Adobe Acrobat Pro
($$, Mac/Win)
Preview(Free, Mac)
PDF-XChange (Free, Win)
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Tablet Apps for PDF Annotation
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Tablet Apps for PDF Annotation
GoodReader($5, iPhone/iPad)
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Tablet Apps for PDF Annotation
GoodReader($5, iPhone/iPad)
PDFExpert($10, iPad)
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Tablet Apps for PDF Annotation
GoodReader($5, iPhone/iPad)
PDFExpert($10, iPad)
RepliGo Reader($3, Android)
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Screenshots
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Data Extraction
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Data Extraction• Adobe Acrobat
Tools > Forms > More Form Options > Manage Form Data > Merge Files into Spreadsheet
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Data Extraction• Adobe Acrobat
Tools > Forms > More Form Options > Manage Form Data > Merge Files into Spreadsheet
• pdftk$ pdftk graded_quiz.pdf dump_data_fieldsthen parse (like Mail headers) to CSV
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Data Extraction• Adobe Acrobat
Tools > Forms > More Form Options > Manage Form Data > Merge Files into Spreadsheet
• pdftk$ pdftk graded_quiz.pdf dump_data_fieldsthen parse (like Mail headers) to CSV
• PDF-XChange can export XFDFthen parse to CSV
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Reporting
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Reporting
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Reporting
Email Share with Dropbox or Google Drive
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Reporting
Email Share with Dropbox or Google Drive
Keep a copy!!
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Summary
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SummaryPro
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Summary
• Free data granularity
• Free document integrity
• Portability
Pro
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Summary
• Free data granularity
• Free document integrity
• Portability
• Can adopt in pieces
Pro
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Summary
• Free data granularity
• Free document integrity
• Portability
• Can adopt in pieces
Pro Con
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Summary
• Free data granularity
• Free document integrity
• Portability
• Can adopt in pieces
• Not a huge time saver
• Learning curve
Pro Con
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Summary
• Free data granularity
• Free document integrity
• Portability
• Can adopt in pieces
• Not a huge time saver
• Learning curve
• risk of dissemination
Pro Con
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The Future: 2D Codes
• Can be used to encode any data
• Identify the file
• Identify the student
• 21st-century Scantron?
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