Automatic Educational Assessment Service

A system for automatically helping a teacher/educator assess student(s) attributes comprising:

• (a) a digital Data Warehouse/Repository (DW/R) of assessments and personal information for the student(s);
• (b) a digital user interface (DUI) operatively connected for enabling a teacher/educator to select an assessment from the DW/R;
• (c) a multifunction device (MFD) including a scanner and a computer communicating with the DUI and DW/R, and operative to generate upon request of the DUI an assessment form with personalized student information thereon;
• wherein a scanner operative to generate a digital image of the assessment form after marking and to send the image to the computer and the computer is operative to recognize the markings in the image and to automatically evaluate the marked assessment according to stored rubrics and to provide, upon request, a report of the evaluation.

A method of automatically evaluating assessments of the attributes of at least one student comprising:

• (a) providing storage of assessment forms and student personal information;
• (b) providing a digital user interface (DUI) and selecting an assessment of the DUI from the digital storage;
• (c) automatically generating an Assessment Batch image with personalized information from the storage for each of a list of students associated with the assessment;
• (d) automatically printing a personalized assessment from the generated image to be manually marked for each of the students in the list;
• (e) administering the assessment to the students in the list for marking;
• (f) scanning and digitally storing images of the marked assessments;
• (g) recognizing and decoding information relating to student attributes from the stored images of marked assessments;
• (h) automatically performing an evaluation of the attributes of the listed students;
• and,
• (i) automatically generating a report of the evaluations.