Adviser's Tool: Improving The Record Keeping of Teachers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

As an academic community, public secondary schools are not spared from challenges; may it be from refining its teaching-learning delivery to improving its record keeping capacity. In order to address the pressing concerns of the senior high school advisers, this action research introduced the SHS Adviser's Tool that aimed to improve the record keeping of senior high school teacher-advisers. This study also explored how the tool can be enhanced to further ease the burden of SHS teacher-advisers.

METHODS

The participants of this study were six (6) Grade 11 advisers of President Roxas National HighSchool which were selected using complete enumeration. They were interviewed to gather valuable information for this study and they were also subjected to focus group discussion to validate their answers.

RESULTS

Results showed that using this tool reduced the advisers' repetitive tasks of encoding which reduced the risk of committing mistakes in inputting students' record. The use of the tool ensured that the encoded data are accurate. The tool is user-friendly, which also helped advisers in its record keeping of the grades of senior high school students.

DISCUSSIONS

It is suggested however, that the tool must be developed further so that it may be utilized by higher grade level advisers. The inclusion of password as an additional feature of the tool to protect the data and availability of sorting of names was also suggested by the participants. The results demonstrate that the Adviser's Tool helps in reducing the repetitive encoding of grades by teacher-advisers and clerical errors are reduced. With the use of this tool, teachers are spared from redundant and exhaustive tasks that rob them of their valuable time which could have been better used elsewhere, like preparing lessons or checking papers.