First, we don’t use any grade-book program for the purposes of totalling, averaging, ranking, converting, or deciding the letter grade. We are the teachers, and we determine the letter grade. We worry when electronic programs, in effect, become the “grade maker” and the teacher simply inputs the data without interpreting it.

However, we do use technology to track each student’s overall collection of evidence, which we organize under each of the Big Ideas headings rather than under assignments and tests.

In our experience, technology such as electronic grade books are good at keeping track of numbers but do not keep track of the wide variety of evidence that is needed to assess twenty-first century learning standards.

However, new assessment applications such as quio Learning Map have the capability of reflecting the ongoing changes that are taking place in assessment practices today.