Neoptec - Specialists in Software for Automatic Document Capture by Scanner

Anonymous marking or blind grading is becoming increasingly widespred in Europe, North America and throughout the world, whether it be for exams or candidate-screening processes. This evolution is the result of a growing will to promote the principle of equal opportunity through concrete safeguards. Anonymous marking can, in fact, hold in check certain inevitable biases affecting any non-anonymous assessment.

Anonymous grading of exam scripts provides a solution to the impossibility of maintaining perfect objectivity toward candidates of different sexes, ethnic origins, social backgrounds and the like. It does so by making it automatic for a corrector to evaluate a candidate's work without taking into account these other factors.

Making exam marking anonymous should, then, open the way for greater objectivity and justice in the process of assessment. Most often, however, the ad-hoc techniques used for managing anonymous marking are neither reliable nor practical. Many such techniques not only make it possible for anonymity be broken at several points in the process, but also make institutions vulnerable to grave and costly errors (from manual data-entry errors, for example).

It is for all these reasons that NEOPTEC developed NEMO-SCAN, the anonymous marking system that is not only inviolable, but also practical and efficient (eliminating data-entry errors, lowering overhead costs, simplifying logistics).

For more information about how NEMO-SCAN safegaurds equal opportunity in assessment and evaluation or for a detailed comparison of the various anonymous-marking techniques currently in use, please contact us.