School Information Systems Research Articles

Upaya Peningkatan Manajemen Akademik Sekolah

Fokus masalah dalam penelitian ini mengkaji efektif tidaknya sistem manajemen akademik di SMK di Kota Bandung. Dalam hal ini, efektivitas sistem manajemen akademik dapat ditentukan oleh sistem informasi yang digunakan sekolah (perangkat keras, perangkat lunak, database, jejaring, dan SDM) dan . Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis gambaran mengenai sistem informasi, dan efektivitas sistem manajemen akademik sekolah, serta mengukur besarnya pengaruh Sistem Informasi dan terhadap Efektivitas Sistem Manajemen Akademik Sekolah di SMK di Kota Bandung. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode survey. Desain penelitian ini dikelompokkan ke dalam penelitian deskriptif dan verifikatif untuk menganalisis hubungan kausalitas antara variabel-variabel yang diteliti. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah 77SMK di Kota Banding. Sumber data primer diperoleh dari penyebaran kuesioner kepada 385 responden (kepala sekolah, guru, dan laboran). Hasil analisis deskriptif menunjukkan bahwa secara keseluruhan Sistem Informasi (Perangkat Keras, Perangkat Lunak, Database, Jejaring, dan Sumberdaya Manusia) di SMK di Kota Bandung termasuk pada kategori cukup memadai. termasuk pada kategori sudah terlaksana dengan baik, sedangkan sistem manajemen akademik sekolah belum dapat dikatakan efektif. Sistem Informasi secara positif dan signifikan mempengaruhi . Sistem Informasi dan secara positif dan signifikan mempengaruhi Efektivitas Sistem Manajemen Akademik Sekolah. Secara keseluruhan, sekolah hendaknya memiliki aplikasi sistem informasi akademik berbasis komputer yang dapat secara terpadu mengelola tertib administrasi akademik sekolah, ditunjang dengan infrastruktur atau sarana-prasarana komputer yang memadai sesuai dengan fungsinya masing-masing (perangkat keras, perangkat lunak, database, jejaring). Perencanaan yang baik serta pembuatan tahap-tahap implementasi yang realistis akan lebih berhasil dan dirasakan manfaatnya ketimbang rencana yang terlalu tinggi namun sulit diimplementasikan baik karena kurangnya sumber dana maupun sumber daya, terutama sumber daya manusia (SDM). Semua itu terus dievaluasi agar dapat meningkatkan efektivitas sistem manajemen akademik sekolah.

PEMODELAN ARSITEKTUR ENTERPRISE MENGGUNAKAN METODE TOGAF ADM (Studi Kasus: SMAN 1 WATUBANGGA)

SMA Negeri 1 Watubangga is one of the schools in Kolaka Regency that implement the flagship program, but the current condition of SMA Negeri 1 Watubangga does not have an integrated information system architecture according to the needs and objectives of the school, this problem arises because the school has not focused on the process development of information systems. Therefore it is necessary design of information system architecture SMA Negeri 1 Watubangga. Architectural modeling in this research using TOGAF Framework (The Open Group Architecture Framework) with ADM (Architecture Development Methode) method. Stages used are the preparation of architectural vision, business architecture, information system architecture, technology architecture, opportunities and solutions and migration plans.The result of this enterprise architecture modeling is the blue print model and framework in integrated school information system modeling to support the needs of SMAN 1 Watubangga.

The development of vocational high school information system using angularJS and scrum

Scrum is one of the most familiar and commonly used agile models. In this paper, we report the result of system development using AngularJS along with Scrum methodology. This research has shown that the use of AngularJS framework along with Scrum was successfully reduce the development time. This paper makes contribution by exploring a match combination between a popular system development methodology and a programming language.

The Impact of Undergraduate Program Developers and User Participation on the Quality of School Information System

Developer's expertise and user participation are two critical factors of successful School Information System (SIS). Many researchers focus on user-initiated and professional SIS, while this study observes a campus-initiated SIS which involves undergraduate developers and volunteer users. We qualify the system using the System Usability Scale (SUS) and observation. The final prototype reaches an acceptable level of SUS and the outcomes among students whose GPA above 3.0 are not much different, but we recommend to find students with good grades in the supporting courses. The volunteer users come from 2 public and two private schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We also examined user participation and found they were good and even excellent, although each developer may have a different standard of perceiving user participation. This study also reveals user inconsistency and interface issues were still become problematic, as changes cause the project to be overdue.

BASIS DATA UNTUK MENGEMBANGKAN SISTEM INFORMASI SEKOLAH

The purpose of this policy study was for identifying database thatcould be used to develop a school information system (SIS) and foridentifying external and internal stake holders that could be used asdata and information to be filed in SIS. The results of the study couldbe used to make recommendation for schools about the merits ofbuilding an SIS, intranet, and internet system. As a case study, thisresearch was held in State Senior High School 1, Jetis, Bantul. Datawere gathered from interviews and documentation. Evaluative analysiswas used to yield research results and descriptive analysis was used toformulate the recommendation to be extended to the schools. Dataanalyses and discussion brought about these conclusions andrecommendation:(1) Structure database were available that could beused to develop an SIS, (2) Those database could be categorized intospecific data and information about the institution, curriculum,school’s infrastructure, teachers, instruction, grades, students, newstudent admission process, alumnus, school’s library, worker, andschool’s monetary, (3) Teachers, students, functionaries of StateSenior High School 1, Jetis and the public could access data andinformation kept in the SIS, and (4) The schools may be expected tobuild an SIS, intranet, and internet.

The Development of Indonesian Labour Market Information System (LMIS) for Vocational Schools and Industries

This paper is aim to developing Information system for the labor market which specifically linking vocational schools (SMK) graduates and industries. The methods of this application using Research and Development (R&D) from Borg and Gall conducting in North Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. The result are reliable and acceptable for the graduate students. The Labor Market Information system (LMIS) can help the industries to find a labor/graduates that matched with the company requirement at a real time. SMK may have a benefit by extracting the Information from the application, they can prepare their students for the specific work in the industries. The next development of the application will designed to be available not only for the SMK graduate students.

Implementasi Sistem Interkoneksi Basis Data Terdistribusi Menggunakan Socket API


 Majelis Pendidikan Dasar dan Menengah Pimpinan Daerah Kabupaten Magelang needs information about the development of the school. The necessary data include data on human resources, asset data and data of their students. At the moment the data is obtained manually by looking to the schools. With the development of information technology is now expected to have a school information system that can provide information quickly and accurately. Data on each school if put into one large server or big data can be used to analyze the data. The purpose of this research is to implement the interconnection of distributed database system using the socket API. It is used to provide master data of all schools under Persyarikatan Muhammadiyah. To support the analysis of the data interconnection of distributed databases, socket API technology is used. With a system like this then the communications database can be connected so that the school's data will be sent directly through the socket API and the data will automatically be processed by the webservice in the server middleware and will be utilized in the next process.

Market “choices” or structured pathways? How specialized arts education contributes to the reproduction of inequality

Located in one of the most diverse cities in the world, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) offers several programs catering to a variety of student interests. Specialty Arts Programs (SAPs) have gained particular attention in part because of their reputation as excellent schools providing a unique opportunity for training in the arts. However, recently such programs have also raised concerns about who can access and who ultimately benefits from specialized programming in the arts. While the TDSB is committed to equal access for all families, the student populations at these programs do not mirror the broader school population, serving mostly affluent families and students with access to high levels of social and cultural capital. Employing data from the TDSB’s Parent and Student Census and the School Information Systems, the article first demonstrates the demographic homogeneity of specialized arts programs and then examines whether this homogeneity is a particular outcome of specialized arts programs or a manifestation of a de facto streaming mechanism that begins earlier in the schooling process. To do this, the authors explore the relationship between feeder schools and programs that guide students towards SAPs. Results demonstrate that the bulk of SAP students are drawn from a select few elementary schools across the board. Largely, the demographics of elementary feeder schools reflect similar characteristics of the SAP population and this relationship is amplified as the number of students drawn from feeder schools increases. In addition, students in SAPs experience a high level of belonging in school as compared to students across the system. While this outcome is often attributed to the immersion in arts-based curriculum, the authors query how the role of creating homogenous spaces through selective programming contributes to students’ experience of belonging while at the same time reproducing structural inequality.

Supporting Teachers’ Learning Using School Information System

Sistem Informasi Sekolah saat ini telah lazim digunakan oleh banyak sekolah dan otoritas pengelola pendidikan untuk membantu pengelolaan data sekolah, mulai dari data perkembangan siswa hingga data keuangan. Selain pengelolaan data, system informasi sekolah dapat menunjang pengembangan kapasitas guru dan kolegialitas dalam ruang lingkup sekolah. Hal inilah yang menjadi salah satu pengalaman Sekolah Sukma Bangsa dalam menerapkan Sistem Informasi Sekolah Terpadu Online (SISTO) untuk mendukung efisiensi serta akuntabilitas dalam pengelolaan data yang baik. Artikel ini menjelaskan bagaimana penerapan SISTO mendukung pengembangan kapasitas guru melalui kegiatan belajar yang terintegrasi dalam kegiatan guru sehari-hari. Hal ini dimungkinkan dengan adanya integrasi aplikasi dalam system serta fitur yang mendorong guru untuk melakukan “reflective practices.” .Kegiatan-kegiatan tersebut mencakup refleksi guru, kolaborasi dalam menyelesaikan masalah, pembuatan keputusan berbasis data serta evaluasi guru berbasis SISTO. Artikel ini bertujuan memberikan gambaran singkat mengenai proses pengembangan kapasitas yang ditunjang oleh system informasi.

Supporting Teachers’ Learning Using School Information System

Sistem Informasi Sekolah saat ini telah lazim digunakan oleh banyak sekolah dan otoritas pengelola pendidikan untuk membantu pengelolaan data sekolah, mulai dari data perkembangan siswa hingga data keuangan. Selain pengelolaan data, system informasi sekolah dapat menunjang pengembangan kapasitas guru dan kolegialitas dalam ruang lingkup sekolah. Hal inilah yang menjadi salah satu pengalaman Sekolah Sukma Bangsa dalam menerapkan Sistem Informasi Sekolah Terpadu Online (SISTO) untuk mendukung efisiensi serta akuntabilitas dalam pengelolaan data yang baik. Artikel ini menjelaskan bagaimana penerapan SISTO mendukung pengembangan kapasitas guru melalui kegiatan belajar yang terintegrasi dalam kegiatan guru sehari-hari. Hal ini dimungkinkan dengan adanya integrasi aplikasi dalam system serta fitur yang mendorong guru untuk melakukan “reflective practices.” .Kegiatan-kegiatan tersebut mencakup refleksi guru, kolaborasi dalam menyelesaikan masalah, pembuatan keputusan berbasis data serta evaluasi guru berbasis SISTO. Artikel ini bertujuan memberikan gambaran singkat mengenai proses pengembangan kapasitas yang ditunjang oleh system informasi.

Developing High School Information System Using Artificial Intelligence Methods

Developing High School Information System Using Artificial Intelligence Methods

Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child’s missed assignments, grades and class absences. We pre-specified five primary outcomes. The intervention reduces course failures by 38% and increases class attendance by 17%. Students are more likely to be retained in the district. The positive effects are particularly large for students with below-average GPA and students in high school. There are no effects on standardized test scores however. We randomly chose either the mother or the father to receive the alerts, but there were no differential effects across these subgroups. As in previous research, the intervention appears to change parents’ beliefs about their child’s performance and increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively cheaply and at scale.

Strategies of Enhancing ICT Use in the Delivery of Management Services in Public Secondary Schools in Siaya County in Kenya

This study was set to determine the strategies of enhancing ICT use in the delivery of services in public secondary schools in Siaya County, Kenya. Although many secondary schools introduced computers in great numbers starting early 1990s, there are limited information on their use to facilitate delivery of services in school administration and management. The extent to which ICT is being used in school management in secondary schools, the types of administrative uses of ICT by school managers and challenges affecting the integration of ICT in the management systems in secondary schools needed to be adequately addressed. This can only be achieved if there are laid down strategies of enhancing ICT use in the delivery of services in public secondary schools in Siaya County. The study was guided by Social Transformation Theory in Education and Visscher (1992) conceptual model of school information system, which were used to show the relationship between variables. The research design that used was descriptive survey. Questionnaires, Interviews and document analysis were used to collect data. The study established that schools were taking several steps to help in enhancing ICT delivery such as looking for grants from the government, prioritizing purchase of ICT equipment and using parents’ involvement to buy computers. The study recommends that effort should be made by the government to post and provide teachers skilled in ICT to each school to impart ICT skills to school managers. The study concludes that more support need to be given to schools to enable them achieve their dream of fully implementing the usage of ICT in the management of school activities.

THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE MATHEMATICS EXAM SUCCESS RATE IN THE STUDY PROGRAMMES TAUGHT AT THE COLLEGE OF POLYTECHNICS JIHLAVA (2006–2015)

This paper addresses the exam success rates in Mathematics 1 at the College of Polytechnics in Jihlava (CPJ). Primary data taken from the school information system cover the years 2006–2015. We carried out a success rate analysis based on several criteria (form of study, the reason for termination of studies, gender). We observed the dependence of the success rate on the aforementioned criteria and time. Plus a detailed analysis of the success rate with respect to the study programme was conducted. The contingency tables analysis and correspondence analysis were used to assess the dependencies. The research showed that the success rate in Mathematics 1 has been decreasing over the course of the monitored period of time. The success rate of full-time students is higher compared to the part-time students. Women have higher success rate than men. The respective study programmes showed equivalent results. Technical study programmes show lower success rate in mathematics. The research furthermore implies that mathematics may not always be the cause of a complete termination of studies. To reverse the trend of the growing failure rate we introduced an entrance test of high school basic mathematics followed by a course for those who fail at this test. As a part of our currently running project, our school have been innovating the e-learning modules and working on the textbooks for Seminar in Mathematics that may be completed in a form of an intensive summer or winter school in mathematics. This project’s objective is an overall improvement of students’ mathematical knowledge and skills.

Analítica de datos de aprendizaje (ADA) y gestión educativa

Este artículo surge como una derivación del marco teórico, metodológico y avances del proyecto de tesis doctoral del autor sobre minería de datos educativos en un aula presencial, teniendo como variables las actividades de enseñanza, el enganchamiento estudiantil y la evaluación del aprendizaje. La idea central se basa en el hecho de que las instituciones educativas cuentan con una gran variedad de datos e información provenientes de sistemas de información escolar, tales como resultados de evaluaciones internas o externas, asistencia a clases, nivel socioeconómico, esquemas de alimentación, llegadas tarde, desempeño año por año, entre otros, los cuales, de acuerdo con las tendencias mundiales, son insumos importantes para la toma de decisiones informadas. No obstante, muchas veces esta información queda acumulada o almacenada en algún lugar de la institución sin que se le dé uso efectivo a esta, o peor aún, la gran cantidad de información del día a día no se recopila o registra, perdiendo así un gran potencial para mejoras académicas. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar unos conceptos generales acerca de la analítica de datos en el contexto escolar y cómo este proceso puede contribuir a la gestión educativa, principalmente para la toma de decisiones informadas y el desarrollo de planes de acción.

Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Ujian Sekolah Berbasis Intranet DI SMK Basyariyah Madiun

Abstract This study develops school management are now many who utilize information systems, such as the Academic Information Systems, Information Systems Officer and others. But the system is still manual examination conducted that the teachers should make printed matter and must be propagated so it takes a long time as well as substantial funds for the preparation of the manuscript matter and answer sheet. Students also have to write it manually using pens to answer such questions. The efficiency and effectiveness of the exam committee less can optimally process the student assessment test results. By implementing a needs analysis (requirement analysis) to determine the needs of the system, then the author can specify a matter of necessity in the course of this intarnet based school exams, by making a new form of learning systems by implementing an intranet-based school examination system, providing convenience to each teacher in the field of study melaksankan school exams to students, to look for effective learning solution is to create an intranet-based school examination system, to develop skills in information technology-based learning. Exam Application Design School The school will be applied in the intranet, where these applications can be accessed by all computers clien in one room, so that examinees can access the questions from the server to the model question multiple choice / multiple choice is random and student test carried out in komputer.sehingga lab can provide efficiency in various aspects, namely the efficiency of time and cost efficiency. Design of information systems intranet-based school exam this is by using the PHP programming language and MySQL database MySQL used a database that has a very high process capability and save memory, it is very supportive of the school information system web-based exam. Keywords: Information Systems; php; MySql.

Wearable mobile internet devices involved in big data solution for education

The big data in education faces one methodology problem, i.e., how to acquire, store and apply the big data, especially to find one mediator to associate and solve the problem overall. In this paper, we create our big data model for one school firstly, which includes the behaviour subject information model and its related activity model. The behaviour subjects include the school, class, teacher, students, parents, etc. The information model relates with the subjects' basic and the activity information. Secondly, the collection means of big data is presented, the detailed big data about the activities are acquired from the existing and extended school information systems, e.g., as the administration systems for student attendance, quiz, shopping, etc. Thirdly, the wearable mobile internet devices act as one new means to provide more information and one key to associate different data from heteronomous sources. Finally, we verify our big data model through new applications, such as school-bus route optimisation, timecost impact to learning, and parents' affection for students' development, etc.

Towards A System Of Citizen-Based Environmental Health Governance: The Citi-Sense Project Main Study

Introduction: The CITI-SENSE project (EU FP7-ENV-2012) aims to create location-based Citizens' Observatories (COs) for engaging citizens, authorities and policy-makers (as stakeholders) and empower them to address contemporary urban environmental health issues, such as air pollution, noise and thermal comfort. The project, started in September 2012, is based in Barcelona, Belgrade, Edinburgh, Haifa, Ljubljana, Oslo, Ostrava, Vienna, and Vitoria-Gasteiz. These cities have started to pilot environmental sensor-enabled, health-relevant information systems in schools and public spaces. Methods & Results/products: After a limited pilot study, the main study in 2015 is increasing the quantity and quality of environmental sensor nodes deployed with different stakeholders. Data collected from these nodes contribute to value-added services such as time-activity exposure profiles and location-wide air quality maps. The former are created with personal sensor packs (PSPs) monitoring air quality and the CitySense smartphone appl collecting geolocation and accelerometry data. The PSP automatically and wirelessly transmits encrypted data to the smartphone via Bluetooth technology, which is then relayed to the project's dedicated Web Feature Service via GSM for processing and private access. The city-wide models of air quality, using data from static sensor nodes and de-identified PSPs, will be produced based upon dynamic land-use regression and data fusion techniques. These maps will be available to the public online and used by the CitySense app for exposure profiling of individuals without a PSP. Participatory evaluation will gather qualitative data on the participatory process with stakeholders to assess the feasibility and longevity of COs. Discussion: CITI-SENSE will contribute towards the development of COs for empowering citizens and facilitating environmental health governance with stakeholders to mitigate environmental quality breaches negatively affecting health and wellbeing.

MODEL PEMILIHAN SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING UNTUK SISTEM INFORMASI SEKOLAH: STUDI KOMPARASI ASP, JSP, PHP, PYTHON, DAN RUBY

There are many criteria that could be used as the basis for the selection of server side scripting that could be applied to the school information system. This study compares several server side scripting that could be applied the school information system. Those server side scripting are ASP, JSP, PHP, Python, and Ruby. This research refers to research done by Oyku Alanbay regarding the selection of softwares. In addition, using the theories regarding the quality of the software as the basis for the determination of selection sub criteria server side scripting to the school information system. In the selection of server side scripting for this school information system with three levels of criteria. As for the level 1 criteria is technology related, user related, and vendor related, level 2 criterion consists of 18 sub criteria obtained from the special advantages for server side scripting. And level 3 there are five alternatives is ASP, JSP, PHP, Python, and Ruby. In the selection of server side scripting for this school information systems using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the tool uses Expert Choice 2000. The results of this election make PHP as server side scripting needs compared to ASP, JSP, Python, and Ruby with 40.6% weighting values with the most influential factor was 60.4% of the user related.

Factors Limiting the Usage of ICT in the Delivery of Management Services in Public Secondary Schools in Siaya County

This study was set to determine the effect of integrating ICT use in the delivery of services in public secondary schools in Siaya County, Kenya. Although many secondary schools introduced computers in great numbers starting early 1990s, there are limited information on their use to facilitate delivery of services in school administration and management. The extent to which ICT is being used in school management in secondary schools, the types of administrative uses of ICT by school managers and challenges affecting the integration of ICT in the management systems in secondary schools needed to be adequately addressed. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the effect of integrating ICT in the delivery of services in public secondary schools in Siaya County. The study objectives were to determine the areas in which ICT is being used in the delivery of management services in public secondary schools in Siaya County and to recommend strategies of enhancing ICT in the delivery of services in public secondary schools in Siaya County. The theoretical framework that guided the study was Social Transformation Theory in Education and Visscher (1992) conceptual model of school information system, which were used to show the relationship between variables. The research design that was used is descriptive survey. The study population consisted of 167 Principals, 167 Secretaries, 167 Deputies, 167 Bursars/Accounts’ clerks and 334 Heads of Departments. Purposive sampling technique was used to identify 48 schools that had incorporated ICT in their management system in secondary schools. Saturated sampling technique was used to select 48 principals. Purposive sampling technique was used to select one head of department in charge of examinations and one in charge of boarding in each sampled schools, giving a total of 96 heads of departments, 48 Deputy Principals, 48 Secretaries and 48 Bursars/ Accounts’ clerk. Questionnaires was administered to the H.O.Ds, Deputy Principals and Bursars/Accounts’ clerks to gather data on the level of ICT incorporation in management in secondary schools. Interviews with school principals and Secretaries captured data on their role in provision of ICT equipment for school management systems and the challenges they face in ICT use in school administration system. To ensure validity and reliability of the research instruments, experts from the School of Education, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology scrutinized the research instruments. A pilot study of 5 schools was equally conducted in the schools not sampled for the study. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2p554