forward is not always forward

When you are looking at a new way of doing things you need to make sure you are not just repackaging the old ways. We have on line testing. Some classes they are embedded test where the student answers the questions on line. Any long answer are checked by a human teacher but multiple choice and matching are done by the program. That's great.

However ( There's always a however) for all the middle school subjects that is not the case. They print sometimes 22 pages of paper. Fill them out by hand and scan them back to us. The Core classes come back as one file ; four subjects ; up to 27 pages.
Real assessment cannot be done through only multiple guess - because as a student I used to be really good at that! I can get a D on a subject I barely know. It cannot be done with matching and true/false so there will always be that need for humans to express their learner mastery to other humans for the deep learning or in Maslow's concept the higher learning.
But there's a great value to working smarter not harder. Grading is a very hard part of this job. And really at the lowest level of technology is does not have to be hard as it is it the current form.
Scantrons!! what are they from the fifties!! That would make everything is much easier. It would take away 3/4 of my grunt work. And it is grunt work because I groan every time I have to do it.
So as we are developing this new virtual learning we are building the ship as we sail but there are some anchors of our old ways of thinking that we need to jettison.