Effects of School-based Management On-line Reporting System on Efficiency as Perceived by Teachers and Level of Practice as Assessed by Schools Division Office

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Despite government and international organizations' efforts to implement School-based Management (SBM) to decentralize decision-making empowering teachers, parents, and communities to be responsible for the development and learning of their children. Throughout these years of implementation still, schools are facing challenges like inefficient reporting system, lacking proper program documentation, weak community-initiated projects, less decision-making involvement and evaluations, inefficient annual development plans and property inventories of all resources, poor monitoring and evaluation, and less faculty support. Hence, the online reporting system is the call of the time to address these quick changes and demands conceptualizing the SBM Online Management System (SBMORS) and having it implemented.

METHODS

This study utilized a qualitative descriptive method by knowing the effect of SBMORS on efficiency as perceived by teachers and its effect on the SBM level of practice as assessed by the School Division Office. Whereas, the researcher through the SBM team took advantage of Google Forms and Drives to facilitate the online reporting system. This is in tandem with the 6-hour teaching and 2 hours other teaching-related functions of teachers as stipulated in Magna Carta of Public-School Teachers, Civil Service Memorandum and Department of Education orders. Thus, to facilitative the monitoring and retrieval of reports, SBMORS was utilized.

RESULTS

After two (2) years of SBMORS implementation, the researchers found that there was a positive effect on efficiency having an average of 3.93 as teachers' perception. Moreover, in terms of the SBM level of practice, it was found that there was a positive increase of 0.75 yielding to a recent rating of 1.95 as measured by SDO Rizal, making SJNHS categorized as Maturing Level (Level II).

DISCUSSIONS

In addition, this positive increase yielded to other school benchmarking of SBM best practice, Gawad Patnugot Division 2nd Best SBM implementer and PBB category as a BETTER school. Thus, SBMORS is an effective intervention to promote system efficiency.