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Tips, recommendations, news, and product updates about surveys and optical mark recognition.
GradeCam Alternatives: Cloud OMR Without the Per-Teacher Subscription
GradeCam (now Gradient, part of GoGuardian) has been a go-to paper grading tool for K-12 teachers. You print a bubble sheet, students fill it in, and GradeCa...
ZipGrade Alternatives for Teams and Institutions
ZipGrade is a popular mobile grading app that lets individual teachers scan multiple-choice answer sheets with a phone camera. For a single classroom, it doe...
Trade-Show and Event Feedback: Why Paper Beats QR Codes (and How to Process It Fast)
You have seen the setup at every trade show and conference: a QR code on a table tent, a sign that says "Scan to give us your feedback," and a URL printed on...
Remark Office OMR Alternatives: Cloud-Based OMR for Any Device
Remark Office OMR by Gravic is one of the longest-running optical mark recognition products on the market. It has been a reliable choice for organizations pr...
Running Paper Surveys in Low-Connectivity Field Research
A research coordinator for a maternal health study in rural Malawi described her data collection setup: a stack of printed questionnaires, a box of pens, and...
Scantron Alternatives: Modern OMR Without Proprietary Forms or Hardware
Scantron has been synonymous with bubble-sheet testing for decades. If you went to school in the United States, you probably filled in Scantron answer sheets...
Paper vs Online Surveys: When Paper Still Wins (with Data)
Online surveys are cheaper to distribute, faster to deploy, and easier to analyze, and for many use cases they are the right choice. But a persistent finding...
How to write good survey questions
Surveys are a valuable tool for gathering information and opinions from a large number of people. Whether you're conducting market research, gathering feedba...
Postal Surveys
The advancements in technology have had a profound impact on the methods used for conducting surveys and collecting data. While online surveys have become a...
Comparing online and paper survey response rates
Surveys are an essential tool in collecting data and gathering information from a large population. They can be conducted in various forms, including online...
Surveying the Ageing Population
As life expectancy continues to increase and birth rates decline, the world's population is growing older at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, it is estimated...
Importance of Mental Health Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having an enormous impact on all the aspects of our lives, and it will have both short and long-lasting effects. Schoo...