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Useful tips, tools, strategies, and topics for School Psychologists, Special Educators, Teachers, Administrators, and Parents of students As School Psychologists we have front row seats to watching technology shape the future of learning, but how is this change impacting our For students, several districts in the area employ the use of tablets for learning, and some have made the transition to technology so vast that they provide a tablet for each child. For School Psychologists, we have slowly moved away from hand scoring to computer based scoring, and even to online rating scales. Who wants to spend an hour half hand scoring a 150 question rating scale when you can spend 15 seconds running a full online report? There is no doubt that technology has the capacity to increase the efficiency of our jobs, but there is a big difference between using online behavior rating scales and creating a full shift to application-based testing.   There has been a lot of buzz lately about our as*essment tools becoming available through an application called Q-interactive. Pearson as*essments created Q-Interactive with the promise to eliminate the need for chunky test kits. As someone who welcomes technology with open arms, I immediately researched the program, attended a training, and began using it. It was promptly apparent that while Pearson still has some work to do, there is potential for an abundance of benefits to evaluators. The two leading issues I encountered with the actual use of Q-Interactive were simple technical glitches  (as with any technology, sometimes it just doesn't work and you can’t figure out why), and the time commitment it takes to learn. Although I knew and understood that administering subtests on the iPad would be different, I still had this senseless expectation that it would remain somewhat automatic and effortless. When I attempted to administer a subtest on the iPad for the first time, one that I have given countless times the traditional way, I found it to be uncomfortable and confusing. I was relearning HOW to administer