SC ePortfolio System: Improving technology proficiency in South Carolina schools

Abstract

The United States Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 that had as its goal “every student be technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student's race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability”1. The State of South Carolina's Department of Education, located in the southeastern region of the United States of America (USA), has developed and used a web-based, comprehensive, and evidence-basedtechnology proficiency system - The SC ePortfolio System - that forms the bedrock of South Carolina's plan for improving teaching and learning in the United States and ensuring that every South Carolina student is technologically proficient by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student's race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability2.