The usability testing for PowerTeacher’s Gradebook indicated that the interface is lacking in some basic usability features such as learnability, ease of use, feedback and memorability. The study findings suggest many usability issues related to creating new assignments, entering comments, manually overwrite grades, and generating reports within the school information system which are potentially impeding a teacher’s capacity to efficiently execute routine classroom management tasks, at least the time frame in which these tasks are completed. This is especially a problem for novice or intermediate teachers, and essentially teachers who do not ample planning time, as they are occupied with multiple functions and responsibilities. The …show more content…
Also more than one “+” buttons are on the assignment screen; therefore a user may not know which one to use after reading the steps in the Help File.
4. Simplify the steps, and make more visible the option to include a teacher’s signature line when generating reports. Including a ‘Signature Line’ on a report is a frequent task by users, hence should not have to manipulate several options to locate it. Currently, the user have to manipulate several steps to find the signature line, this can be time consuming and frustrating, especially for a novice user or intermediate user, which was the case during the observation.
5. Simplify the steps to generate reports. Currently to generate a final grade and verification report requires the user to complete approximately 10 steps. A user generating five successive reports must chose an incorrect reporting period before the correct one can be selected. For example, the first report for year, year one is selected, then the second report for quarter 4, another period such as quarter 1 must be selected and then go back and select quarter 4 before the quarter 4 report can be generated. This is time consuming and reduces the memorability of the Interface.
6. Add more examples to the Help File, for example how to enter grades so that it is not reflected in a final grade. None of the three participants was able to locate the steps for this task using the Help File.
7. Include more ‘feedback
Incorporating technology in the classroom is a leading trend among educators in the 21st century. Teacher use classroom websites, technology tools, and online web assessments to keep parents and students informed, improve instruction, and individualize learning. Using technology to support communication helps keep both students and parents informed on what is happening in the classroom and the students’ academic progress. Integrating technology in the classroom helps increase student engagement and participation. Students use technology tools to help reinforce instruction and teachers may use it as a form of remediation. Technology can also help with differentiating instruction with the use of online assessments. Incorporating technology in the classroom can increase students’ success in the classroom and beyond.
A review of literature was done and then based on the research; a survey was conducted to find out what factors contribute to classroom teachers’ use of computers in instruction. Two previously tested instruments that were used in large scale surveys were used to develop this survey. Validity and reliability were established through the piloting procedures of Tailored Design Method (Franklin, 2007). A modified pilot study or pretest was done by experts in education, research, and technology. According to Lodico, Spaulding, and Voegtle (2010) any survey should be pilot tested with a small group that was similar to the actual participants.
Instructional design allows teachers to focus on the need of their students, and become more involved with designing instructional activities to ensure students are reaching the learning objective. “Specifically, in recent years, national initiatives for educational reform have generated support for both teacher-centered instruction and activity-oriented, student-centered methods of teaching that stress meaningful learning applied to real-world problems.” (Morrison et al.,2013. p.2013) In order to effective teach, it is vital assess the needs for teachers and students in their learning environment. There is a lack of technology in Khepera Charter School. Updated technological resources will allow students to be more engaged in learning, and teachers will have resources needed to compliment and differentiate instruction.
Given a case such as the Week 6 project requiring analysis, develop a report to present findings and recommendations.
This study set out to prove that when using technology for note-taking and assessing information in conjunction with each other there will be an increase in student performance. The data aligns with the initial hypothesis of the study and is backed by past studies findings, like Mogey’s study in 2007 and Russell and Haney’s study in 1997. The information in the article strongly aligns with the purpose of the article and does not give any superfluous information. The researchers also note threats to internal validity and the steps they took to remedy them, like using “two experimenters…as redundant quiz graders, each separately grading every participant’s quiz” (52) and having all handwritten notes converted to typed text to combat the bias that is common in grading. They also attempt to provide alternative explanations for “the results of studies demonstrating positive (e.g., Goldberg et al., 2003) or negative (e.g., MacCann et al., 2002) effects” (55), like the possibility that the location of the student had an effect on performance instead
It is my privilege to nominate Angele Perlakowskie to receive this year’s Paula Ribando Professional Clinical Ladder Excellence Recognition: Nurse Clinician IV. Working side by side with Angie for more than eight years, I highly esteem her continuous commitment to clinical excellence and professionalism. This nominee is an extraordinary person and clinician who epitomizes nursing at its best. She is highly skilled, compassionate, a sound critical thinker, a collaborator, and consistently displays the highest ethical standards.
In Lavin, Korte, Davies). The result of the study further pushes the notion of how important it is for school staff to understand the given technology so they can distribute the information effectively to their students. All the technology in the world will be ineffective if the teachers themselves are not passionate of their work. “Technology has the potential to transform the learning environment from passive to active and more subject to the control of the learner.” (qtd. In Lavin, Korte, Davies).
A significant amount of research has been done in the areas of learning styles, numerous intelligences and methods for note taking. To date there has been little research connected to Interactive Notebooks; this study will concentrate on the theories that support the utilization of interactive notebooks. When teachers choose to use Interactive Notebooks in their class rooms, they must be aware of the students learning style to better serve them.
Follow-up: (How could you follow this lesson up? Mark formative assessment in BLACK BOLD and best practices and differentiated instruction in RED BOLD)
8. Record of Work: These record pictures how the teacher has planned to complete each subject based on the number of lessons. It helps the authorities to know what is being taught in school, and shows how and when work is done.
A day in the life of a school leader is one filled with administrative imperatives, agenda juggling and organizational emergencies. Unfortunately, this can make it quite difficult to find the time to provide the support that educators require to improve the instructional program. Once again, tech-enabled teacher leaders have stepped in to address this leadership function in a manner that suits the busy schedules of classroom teachers. Using technology to facilitate the distribution of instructional leadership helps to ensure that this essential leadership function occurs frequently and throughout the
1. Continue building strong partnerships with other providers – the company should continue partnering up with other providers preferably the multichannel television providers such as HBO and Starz in order to increase their selection of streaming titles. This will definitely help the company not only gain but also attract more customers or consumers and therefore increase market share. This would help lower the churn rate and help expand their subscriber base. Streaming titles can also be increased and improved if the company decides to partner up with these other multichannel providers. Based on research carried out in researching about Netflix it is being understood that Netflix is in partnership with multiple other companies or television providers. Due to all of these partnerships being formed the members or frequent customers are now being able to enjoy the benefits of watching these TV episodes, shows and also movies which are made possible to be streamed to their computers and televisions via the use of Netflix ready devices. In the case of Netflix partnering up with TV provider STARZ, for example, it is obvious that Netflix formed the partnership with STARZ entertainment LLC a movie service provider to make movies from STARZ play available for instant streaming at Netflix ( Netflix Inc 2013). If Netflix continues to work well with these providers the partnerships would be a good relationship which would be beneficial to both
Besides that, other recommendation that could be done to improve the MPKB’s effort is to impose stricter punishment to those who not pay the tax such as the assessment tax or not paying permit to sell at the stalls. This is because, MPKB had taken a lot of efforts in order to ensure the implementation of the Safe City Programme to be successful such as by providing the infrastructure, maintenance of the areas, design a physical environment that is safe and informing the people about the programme through the mass media.
Abstract—Recommendation systems are a very common now days and it is used in a variety of applications a recommender system that is designed to reduce the human effort of performing domain analysis. It is task in which we can find the commonality and difference between the different software of same domain ‘feature recommendation is very useful now days this approach relies on data mining techniques to discover common features across products as well as the relationship among these common features.
Education is one of the most important professions in the working world. Technology has done many things for us in today’s society especially for education and schools. Technology in the school system has impacted the students and teachers in many positive ways, including virtual field trips, testing tips, teacher resources, class web sites, and lesson plans. With computer use in our schools, we have access to many different sources and various types of learning.