Development and Evaluation of Proposed School Website in Kasiglahan Village Senior High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

School website is the most advanced way of promoting the institution/school to all who wanted to be part of it. The school website aims to promote the school and to provide updates and announcements of its upcoming events.

Kasiglahan Village Senior High School utilizes the Facebook page to communicate with students, staff and the community. Students need to sign up with their accounts to join the school Facebook page where updates and announcements are posted. Unfortunately, not all students have full access to social media. Consequently, some students do not get immediate updates especially on some urgent announcements like class suspensions. This reason motivates the researchers to propose a school website that is accessible to all with no social media account required.

METHODS

The researchers requested the students and teachers to evaluate the proposed school website thus the utilization of a descriptive evaluative research method.

RESULTS

Based on the findings, the proposed school website in terms of content results to 3.69 weighted means for students. It describes that it has an accurate substance. Teachers' evaluation in terms of efficiency results in a weighted mean of 2.36 and it implies that the navigation has the least ways to manage the fastest way it should be. Functionality results in a 2.36 weighted mean in the evaluation of the teachers were they find the layout and the design of the website was not organized and functional. The evaluation of the students in terms of usability gives an outcome that users can adapt to the environment of a website as well as its design and function to comment resulting in 3.69weighted means.

DISCUSSIONS

The evaluation of the students resulted in an overall weighted mean of 3.67 for the different criteria as content, efficiency, functionality, and usability of the website and interpreted verbally as "Strongly Agree". Teachers' evaluation has 2.40 as its overall weighted mean resulting in a verbal interpretation of "Disagree". Using the t-test, the result of the evaluation of the two respondents yields a significant difference.

The website's failure to get a nod from the teacher evaluators emanated from the accuracy of the information, the overall web design, and its navigational efficiency. The school may consider providing a skills development program on web design to ICT students for them to create a more functional website. Future researchers should generate substantial information to be able to provide significant information about the school.