Scantron Corporation facts for kids
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| Founded | June 1972 |
| Founder | William E. Sanders |
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| Parent | Regent LP |
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Scantron is an American company located in Eagan, Minnesota. It helps businesses, schools, and governments with special testing tools and technology services.
Scantron is famous for its paper forms. Students use these forms to mark answers for multiple-choice tests. The company also makes special scanners that can read these forms very quickly. These scanners use a technology called optical mark recognition (OMR) to understand the marked answers.
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What Scantron Does
Scantron helps schools and other groups with two main types of services: Assessment Solutions and Technology Solutions.
Assessment Solutions
Scantron's Assessment Solutions focus on testing. They make the scanners that read test forms. They also print the special forms themselves. Scantron even helps create test questions. Experts who study how people learn and think, called psychometricians, help design these tests.
Scantron's testing tools are used in many places. They are in almost all US school districts. They are also used in 56 countries and by many education departments around the world. Many top universities in the US also use Scantron products. Besides paper forms, Scantron offers computer programs for testing. These programs can be used on the internet or on a computer.
Technology Solutions
Scantron Technology Solutions helps companies with their computer systems. They offer support for many different devices and help keep them safe. This includes managing and protecting computers and other electronic equipment.
In 2022, Scantron bought another company called ServRight. This helped Scantron offer even more technology services to its customers.
Scantron's History and Ownership
Scantron was founded in June 1972 by William E. Sanders. Over the years, the company's ownership has changed a few times.
From 2010 to 2012, Scantron was part of a group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This group works with lawmakers to create new laws. Scantron left the group in 2012.
In December 2019, a company called Transom Capital Group became the full owner of Scantron. Later, in May 2023, the part of Scantron that handled technology services changed its name to Secur-Serv.
Most recently, in August 2024, a company called Regent LP bought the Assessment Solutions part of Scantron from Transom. This means Transom Capital Group now owns only Secur-Serv.
See also
- Course evaluation
- Mark sense
- Optical character recognition
- Optical mark recognition
- Tabulating machine
External links
- Scantron Official Website: https://www.scantron.com/
