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A success story from Remark user Margaret Rutherford, Principia Spring '99 Newsletter, June, 1999.

Remark-able Story: No Such Thing as a Perfect Form

The Challenge: Process surveys designed, distributed and collected by someone else.

Submitted by: Margaret Rutherford,
Staff Development, Technology Specialist,
Victoria ISD; Victoria, Texas

"Early this Fall, a principal of an elementary campus asked if I could help her create a teacher and parent survey to collect data for a grant. Agreeing to help, I waited for the draft of her form to arrive, so that I could create a survey form using Principia's guidelines for use with Remark Office OMR. Then I could create the template and copy the form for all the campuses to be surveyed." "A few weeks later, the principal came to my office with six sets of surveys completed by teachers and parents." "The principal had typed out the form, duplicated it and gave it to teachers and sent it home to parents. The parent survey forms had been folded, crumbled and some had small tears. I found out that the children had taken the forms home and returned these in every imaginable condition!" "Both the teacher and parent survey forms had columns that did not line up. The bubbles were marked in many ways. Some respondents had marked lines through the bubbles and some made large Xs extending above and below the bubbles. Every color of ink pen and marker had been used. To make matters worse, there was not a single blank form left to scan to create a template." "I did not think that Remark Office OMR could handle the situation, but I also knew that the survey forms would take a long time to tally by hand. With some work, I was able to create a template and scan the surveys. Then, I tallied the surveys and created the final reports. Our Title I coordinator who was writing the grant was very pleased with the professional looking reports!" "With Remark Office OMR, I've been able to help more individuals conduct surveys and needs assessments. This software provides an inexpensive way to effectively assess needs and evaluate programs. It has saved time and has been a means to deliver meaningful services."

A success story from Remark user John Fosselman, Principia Fall '98 Newsletter, November, 1998.

Remark-able Story: Principia's Contribution to Volunteerism

The challenge: Collect data from thousands of evaluation forms completed by participants in the Presidential Summit on Volunteerism held in Philadelphia. The solution: Call Principia Products, Inc. John Fosselman, a research associate with FERA (Formative Evaluation Research Associates), Ann Arbor, MI, was glad a referral led him to call Principia. His company was called upon to organize participant feedback from the President's Summit, an extremely important and highly publicized event designed to inspire America to increase community service and volunteer work. He needed a quick and efficient way to process thousands of forms, and the summit was only a few weeks away. No problem! Principia staff members helped him design the evaluation/registration forms to be used with Remark Office OMRŽ and even worked with Panasonic to get some high speed scanners for the project. Event organizers were quickly able to use the information from the paper evaluation forms to report on the Summit's effectiveness, guide planning for future efforts, and help assess community progress. Mr. Fosselman was pleased with the project's results. The Summit was a success, and he had the data to prove it.