Electronic Marking with DRS e-Marker®

DRS e-Marker® offers a variety of modular and scalable electronic marking methods for awarding, assessment and professional bodies.

Designed to add value, improve accuracy and reliability of examination marking, e‑Marker® harnesses the power of real-time image capture readers, specialist bureau services and sophisticated software delivered across the internet, to capture securely item-level responses and marks from examiners.

e-Marker® is designed to enable examination and assessment bodies to capitalise on the flexibility that marking from image brings.  Approaches to marking that are impossible to implement at scale from paper-based marking are now made available through e-Marker®. Key benefits include:

• Routing items of different content or marking difficulty to specialist groups of markers
• Real-time monitoring of marking accuracy
• Re-distribution of marking load electronically
• Marking appeals without the need to re-scan scripts or circulate original paper copies.

Recent research has shown that item-based marking has a very high degree of marking accuracy, producing marking outcomes that have increased reliability.

In addition, e-Marker® provides invaluable management information, providing a wealth of added value and benefits, including:

• Centralised logistics and script management
• Status reporting on key processes
• Removal of clerical errors
• Problem resolution through the inspection of images of scripts
• Business rules to ensure all marking is completed
• Different quality control options
• Marking cost reduction through the use of computer-assisted expert marking and general marking
• Regular transfer of mark data
• Provision of management information through tailored reports
• Support of awarding processes through the selection of key script images.

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