New York schools make history with use of new standardized test scoring system

Standardized tests like the SAT-10 are typically calculated electronically, but the corrections are not done at the testing site. Several school districts in the state of New York recently made history for using the first ever electronic scoring system that was on-site.

The Educational Assessment Scoring Environment (EASE) was created by the Education Division of Optimum Solutions Corporation, and was designed to use the same data capture technology that was used by the U.S. Census Bureau during their 2010 survey.

Company officials suggest that this invention will be beneficial to school districts, as it will allow their staff to determine the students’ scores.

"These school districts are pointing the way to the future for all schools throughout the state and, indeed, the country," said John Harrison, executive vice president of the company. "While other states have certainly implemented electronic scoring in their standardized test data collection, none have been able, until today, to offer the EASE suite of applications that provides a totally customizable scanning, closed end processing and constructed response scoring solution."