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Student Information Systems - "Labor Saving" or "Labor Adding"?
by
deanmillot@mac.com
on Sat 11 Aug 2007 12:56 PM EDT | Permanent Link
| Cosmos
Baltimore Sun reporter Gina Davis' story on an information system that
shows student progress towards proficiency on individial state
standards forces us to think hard about our faith in the labor saving
attributes of technology.
[T]he (Articulated Instruction Module) is being made available on a voluntary basis to all of the
county's teachers this coming school year, and the superintendent hopes
it will be widely used.
In addition to the traditional reports with letter grades that measure
students' mastery of a given subject, participating teachers will give
parents progress reports that will tell them whether their children
can, for instance, convert fractions to decimals or determine percent
of a number. Until it is mastered, a skill or objective follows a
student from grade to grade....
"As test scores show, too often children are failing, and no one
responsible for their education seems to know why, and there is no
other evidence in the student's folder other than a bunch of papers
with letter grades," said Barbara Dezmon, assistant to the county
school superintendent for equity and assurance, who created the
program. "At the end of an education, we just know that the student is
not adequately prepared."...
[T]he president of the county's teachers union said preparing the
progress reports - which would be done quarterly in addition to report
cards - will burden overworked teachers. She also worries that
instructors will be blamed when a child fails to master a skill....
Doing such reports, in addition to regular report cards, "would create
an enormous amount of work for teachers," Cheryl Bost, president of the
Teachers Association of Baltimore County, wrote in a July 10 letter to
school board members and schools Superintendent Joe A. Hairston.
Whether technology is labor saving depends a great deal on the system
you are placing it into, and the scale of society that you choose for
the analysis.
The School System. Ms. Bost is almost certainly correct for the Baltimore County publc
school system. If, before ART was installed, teachers' didn't really
know about students' specific problems, and the problems weren't
identified for all to see, it's a pretty good bet they received little
or no teacher time. If "what gets measured gets done," then these
problems will require more teacher time rather than the reallocation of
teacher time. More important, unless the teachers have new means of
addressing the individual needs of students on a class/school/district-wide scale (call it
the "mass customization" of instruction), they will spend more time
without getting appreciably improved results.
AIM
does allow us to start thinking about
how much of the burden of a child's education we want to place on the
parent. This system could permit educators to reduce teacher "time on
task," by holding parents accountable for certain activities that will
improve student performance. It also goes to the union head's concerns
about the extent of teacher responsibility for outcomes. The idea
raises issues of equity - given the wide variation in parent capacity
and interest, but it is one way to lessen the load on teachers.
Society. If we change the
analytical lens from the school system to the full range of taxpayer
supportede activities however, it's almost certainlk the case that
spending more time and money to bring each student up to proficiency on
state standards, no, will not only save the taxpayer money that would
otherwise be paid into various antipoverty programs and the criminal
justice system later, it will result in a net increase in tax revenues
from more and more productive workers, and better citizens, later.
For school
improvement providers, this suggests two challenges: One, the need for
integrated strategies to make the whole school system more productive -
clearly an argument the publishers selling end-to-end solutions ought
to be working. Two, the need to invest in studies that show the
payoff of investment in school improvement as measured by net impacts
on
government spending and revenues over time. Something the
trade groups ought to doing to improve the legitimacy of the school
improvement industry.
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