Addis Ababa University (AAU) is one of the largest universities in Ethiopia. It has more thanrnsixty thousand students and more than two thousand academic staffs. To know the teachingrneffectiveness of the academic staff and to get the student views regarding the teachingrnperformance of instructors, the university has prepared a questionnaire form, which containsrnabout 36 statements that will be filled by students. These forms are processed manually in such arnway that the values given by the students for each statement are added and the average values arerncomputed. Then these values are divided by the total number of students to get the total averagernvalues given by all the students.rnProcessing the student evaluation form manually for a large number of students makes thernprocessing of the forms tedious, time taking and error prone. To alleviate this problem arnmechanism has to be developed by using different form processing techniques. In this project arndigital image analysis technique is used to process the form.rnFor this project, MATLAB is used as a programming tool since it is high-performance languagernfor technical computing that integrates computation, visualization, and programming wherernproblems and solutions are expressed in mathematical notation. The system is designed tornrecognize only the values encircled by the students against each statement. After the document isrnscanned a template image is taken from the normalized gradient field of the image. Gradient isrnthe change in gray level with direction. This can be calculated by taking the difference in valuernof neighboring pixels, producing a vector for each pixel. Thus, the gradient field of the image isrnnormalized with a certain threshold value. Noise is removed while computing the gradient fieldrnof the image. Template matching image analysis technique is used, to detect regions whichrncontain choices against each statement. Then, values encircled by the students are detected byrnfinding relative circles having a range of radius in the detected region. The coordinate values ofrnthe detected circles are used to recognize values encircled by the students.rnFinally, recognized values for each statement are added and the average values are computed.rnThen these values are divided by the total number of students to get the total average valuesrngiven by all the students.rnKeywords: Addis Ababa University, Student evaluation form, Template matching, Recognition