JP2002318540A - Examination management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an examination management system which can make an examinee do not mistake in entering the examinee's number or do not mark at a wrong position and which can reduce the labor of a proctor and can make the proctor unnecessary to carefully distribute answer sheets. SOLUTION: The examination management system is provided with an admission ticket to the examination 1 with a removable information display means 1a, and with an answer sheet 2 having an information display means sticking section 2a on which the information display means 1a is stuck and having an answer column 2b. A bar code seal can be used as the removable information display means 1a, and it is desirable to print, on the bar code seal and the information display means sticking section 2a of the answer sheet 2, such marks 1b, 2c that complete a certain figure when the bar code seal is correctly stuck on the information display means sticking section 2a.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a test management system, and more particularly, to a test management system using a bar code.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a management system for various tests and the like, as shown in FIG. 8, an examination ticket 41 describing an examination hall and an examination number is sent to the examinee, and the examinee moves to the examination hall. Bring an admission ticket 41 and answer sheet 42 at the examination hall
The name and examination number are written by hand, and the mark sheet is marked.

On the other hand, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 3-100971 discloses a bar code sticker that can be directly pasted on an OCR form, and this bar code seal is located at the center of a line mark (character frame) described on the form. By sticking them in a straight line, the position of the character frame to be read is specified, and data such as the character type and the number of characters are included in the barcode.

[0004] Further, a customer bar code reading mail and the like sorting apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-232376 is disclosed in
In addition to detecting the position of the barcode printed at an arbitrary location and extracting the barcode from part of the character, the edge noise of the rack seal, and the like, the circumscribed rectangle of the connected component is extracted and the circumscribed rectangle is extracted. They are merged and taken out as a barcode and a line, and the size and relative position of the circumscribed rectangle in the line are detected.

[0005]

However, in the above-described conventional test management system, firstly, since the examinee number is often a sequence of numbers or alphabets meaningless to the examinee, there is a danger of entry errors. There was a problem that there is. Also in the mark sheet entry, there is a problem that a wrong mark position may be made, for example, an error may occur in which a mark is shifted by one digit from a position to be originally marked.

In order to solve the above problems, a method of marking the examinee's number on the answer sheet in advance so that the examinee does not make a mistake can be considered. However, in this case, the mistake can be prevented. However, since the examinee's number is printed in advance, the examinee must distribute the answer sheet without mistake to the seat where the examinee answers, and if there is a distribution error at this point, the examinee and the answer sheet will be consistent. There was no problem. In addition, it is not possible to determine whether the examinee attended but did not answer or was absent simply by looking at the answer sheet, and extra work such as filling in the absence mark by the examining supervisor occurred. There was a problem of doing.

On the other hand, in an OCR form bar code seal described in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 3-100971, the center of a line mark (character frame) already printed and the bar code pasting reference mark are aligned. Although it is described as sticking, there is a problem in that it is difficult to stick so as to be in a straight line because there is a distance between the barcode seal and the character frame to be read.

Furthermore, in the customer bar code reading mail sorting apparatus described in JP-A-11-232376, it is necessary to perform horizontal and vertical projections in order to specify the bar code position. Has to be suppressed within 5 °.

In view of the above, the present invention has been made in view of the problems in the above-described conventional test management system. It is an object of the present invention to provide a test management system that can reduce the effort of a test supervisor without the need for a tester to carefully distribute an answer sheet.

Another object of the present invention is to provide, in addition to the above, a bar code capable of improving the accuracy of reading a bar code and a method for attaching a bar code.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, an invention according to claim 1 is a test management system, in which an examination slip including removable information display means and the information display means are attached. An information display means attaching section and an answer sheet including an answer entry column are provided.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the examinee removes the information display means from the examination ticket and affixes the information display means to the information display means affixing section of the answer sheet, thereby entering the examinee's examination number and the like. This avoids mistakes, and reduces the effort required by the proctor without having to carefully distribute the answer sheets.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, as a preferred embodiment of the test management system according to the first aspect, the removable information display means is a bar code seal.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the test management system according to the second aspect, the bar code seal is attached to an information display means attaching portion of the answer sheet to which the bar code sticker is attached. It is characterized in that a mark such that a certain figure is completed is printed by correctly attaching it to the information display means attaching section.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the examinee
Minimize the skew (tilt) when attaching the barcode seal by encouraging the user to accurately attach the barcode seal to the information display means affixing section so that the printed mark becomes a fixed figure. And the barcode reading accuracy can be improved.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the test management system according to the third aspect, the mark is printed on both ends of the bar code seal, and the mark is directed outward. The information display means is characterized in that it is printed on the outer side of both ends of the attached portion and has an arrow mark directed inward.

The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to claim 3 or 4.
In the test management system described above, the printing color of the mark is different from the printing color of the barcode.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the distance between the left and right positioning marks printed on the barcode is wide,
By using the positioning mark detection sensor that responds only to the positioning mark, the allowable value of the sticking skew can be increased.

[0019]

Next, a specific example of an embodiment of a test management system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration of an embodiment of a test management system according to the present invention. The test taker 10 must
An examination ticket 1 is distributed, and an answer sheet 2 is distributed at the examination hall. In the examination hall, a test supervisor 20 for collecting the answer sheets 2 and the like are arranged, and a grader 30 for scoring and judging pass / fail is arranged.

As shown in FIG. 2, a bar code seal 1a is affixed to the examination ticket 1 in addition to the examination hall and the examination number. As shown in FIG. 3, on the barcode seal 1a, positioning marks 1b are attached on left and right ends, respectively.
The test hall code, test date, test subject code, and examination number are bar-coded. This barcode data is identification data unique to the examinee. On the other hand, in answer sheet 2,
As shown in FIG. 2, a bar code attaching column 2a and a mark entry column 2b for entering a mark of an answer are printed.

Next, the procedure for attaching the bar code seal 1a will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4A, an arrow-shaped positioning mark 1b is printed outward in a dropout color on both ends of the bar code seal 1a attached to the examination ticket 1. As shown in FIG. 4B, an arrow-shaped positioning mark 2c is printed in a dropout color from the outside to the inside on the barcode sticking column 2a printed on the answer sheet 2.

Then, as shown in FIG. 4 (c), the examinee 10 pastes the barcode seal 1a on the barcode column 2b. Here, the barcode seal 1a and the examination ticket 1
By applying the sticking position marks 1b and 2c to each of the examinees, the examinee 10 is encouraged to be careful. Normally, as shown in FIG. 9B, only a rectangular frame 52 is printed on the barcode sticker sticking paper, and attention is encouraged to the examinee 10 sticking the barcode sticker 51. There is nothing, as shown in FIG.
This is because the barcode sticker 51 may be stuck diagonally to the frame 52 and the barcode may not be read normally.

Next, the operation of the test management system having the above configuration will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, the examinee 10 checks the test site described in the test ticket 1 distributed in advance shown in FIG. 2, and takes the test at the test site on the day of the test. When the answer sheet is distributed from the examination supervisor 20 at the examination hall, the examinee 10 peels off the barcode seal 1a from the examination ticket 1 shown in FIG. , Write the answer.

As shown in FIG. 1, after the test is completed, the test supervisor 20 collects the answer sheet 2 and hands it to the grader 30. The grader 30 reads the collected answer sheet 3 with a bar code using the bar code / mark reading device 4, inputs the read result to the computer 5, and performs a scoring process based on the correct answer data and a pass / fail judgment. Then, the grader 30 notifies the examinee 10 of the scoring result and the pass / fail judgment result. In addition, when the grader 30 receives an inquiry from the examinee 10,
From the data code of the bar code shown in FIG.
Perform a search.

Next, referring to FIG.
The operation of the mark reading device 4 will be described.

The bar code / mark reading device 4 takes in the answer sheet 3 with the bar code attached thereon into the device,
The positioning mark detection sensor 4a detects the arrow marks at both ends of the barcode seal 1a shown in FIG. 4, and obtains the position information / inclination information where the barcode seal 1a is affixed. Here, assuming that the positioning marks 1b and 2c are printed in a dropout color, for example, red, on the barcode seal 1a and the answer sheet 2, a sensor that responds to red is used as the positioning mark detection sensor 4a. Position information and inclination information from the positioning mark detection sensor 4a are input to the barcode reading sensor 4b, and the barcode reading sensor 4b reads the attached barcode based on the information and reads the read result on a computer. 5 is output. Further, since the bar code sensor reading sensor 4b uses a red light source, it can read only the bar code (black and white) without being affected by the red positioning mark.

As shown in FIG. 7, even if the bar code sticker 1a is inclined and attached to the bar code attaching section 2a, the printing color of the bar code on the bar code sticker 1a and the positioning mark 1b, Since the printing colors of 2c are different, Δx and Δy can be detected by projecting only the red color in the vertical and horizontal directions using the positioning mark detection sensor 4a that responds only to the positioning marks 1b and 2c. It is possible to determine how much the code itself is inclined. The bar code can be read by scanning along this inclination.

If the bar code cannot be read because the bar code sticker 1a is not attached or is attached at an angle, the sheet is ejected as an error sheet to a reject stacker (not shown). Then, the operator of the barcode / mark reader 4 visually checks whether or not the answer sheet 3 discharged to the reject stacker has the barcode sticker 1a attached thereto. Treat it. Next, the mark written on the answer sheet is read by the answer mark reading sensor 4c and the result is output to the computer 5. The positioning marks 1b and 2c to be printed on the bar code seal 1a and the answer sheet 2 are shown in FIG. It is not necessary to use the arrow mark as shown, and for example, as shown in FIG. 6, any mark may be used as long as a certain figure is completed by sticking the barcode seal 11 on the barcode sticking column 12. In this way, when one figure is completed by pasting the barcode sticker on the paper, the examinee 10 will carefully paste the barcode sticker, and the possibility of the barcode sticker being tilted and pasted is drastically reduced. However, the barcode reading accuracy can be improved.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the removable information display means provided on the examination ticket is a bar code seal has been described. However, other two-dimensional codes can be used instead of the bar code. It is not limited to a sticker, and any material may be used as long as it can be separated from the examination ticket and can be attached to the answer sheet without falling off.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Exam management that can reduce the effort of the examiner without the examiner making mistakes in the entry of the examinee's number and making the correct position to mark, without the examiner having to carefully distribute the answer sheet. A system can be provided.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a barcode capable of improving the reading accuracy of a barcode and a method for attaching the barcode.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an entire configuration of an embodiment of a test management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an examination ticket (a) and an answer sheet (b) used in the examination management system of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a bar code seal removably attached to the examination ticket of FIG. 2 (a).

4A and 4B are diagrams for explaining a method of attaching a barcode sticker attached to an examination ticket of FIG. 2 to a barcode attachment column of an answer sheet, wherein FIG.
(B) shows a bar code sticking column, and (c) shows a state in which a bar code sticker is correctly stuck on the bar code sticking column.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing a barcode / mark reading device and the like used in the test management system of FIG. 1;

6A and 6B are diagrams showing another example of a bar code sticker and a bar code sticking column removably attached to the examination ticket of FIG. 2A, wherein FIG. 6A shows a bar code seal and FIG. Shows a bar code sticking column, and (c) shows a state in which a bar code sticker is correctly stuck on the bar code sticking column.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an operation in a case where a barcode seal removably attached to the examination ticket of FIG. 2A is inclined and attached to a barcode attachment column.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional examination ticket (a) and answer sheet (b).

FIG. 9 is a view showing a conventional bar code seal and a bar code sticking column, wherein (a) shows a bar code seal;
(B) shows a bar code sticking column, and (c) shows a state where a bar code sticker is incorrectly stuck on the bar code sticking column.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Examination ticket 1a Barcode sticker 1b Positioning mark 2 Answer sheet 2a Barcode sticking field 2b Mark entry field 2c Positioning mark 3 Answering sheet with barcode 4 Barcode / mark reader 4a Positioning mark detecting sensor 4b Barcode reading sensor 4c Answering Mark reading sensor 5 Computer 10 Test taker 11 Bar code sticker 12 Bar code sticking field 20 Test supervisor 30 Grader

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An examination management system comprising: an examination ticket including removable information display means; an information display means attaching section for attaching the information display means; and an answer sheet including an answer entry field. . 2. The test management system according to claim 1, wherein said removable information display means is a bar code seal. 3. The barcode seal and the information display means affixing part of the answer sheet to which the barcode seal is affixed, by accurately affixing the barcode seal to the information display means affixing part, 3. A mark printed to complete the figure is printed.
Test management system as described. 4. The mark is printed on both ends of the bar code seal and is directed outward, and an arrow mark is printed on both ends of the information display means affixing part and directed inward. The test management system according to claim 3, wherein the test management system is a mark. 5. The printing color of the mark is different from the printing color of the barcode.
Or the test management system according to 4.