Assessment of Online Grading System

Introduction

People enroll theirselves in school to learn something, develop and improve their skills. It also makes them to communicate to different kinds of person. There are lot of programs offered by the school. It makes them as an asset for the school. Some students consider the facilities of school before enrolling theirselves to one particular educational institution.
In recent years, innovation is growing rapidly. The number of school system adopting online grade posting and attendance report is growing. (www.suite101.com/online grade-posting pros and cons)
It is an advantage for a school to have an online grade posting against its competitors. Aside from being an advantage, it is also a marketing strategy for the school. It is one of the reasons why schools tend to do online grade posting rather than the tradition one.
As mentioned by McFarlane, 1997; Migliorino and Maiden 2004, www.findarticles.com. A teaching and learning radically changed with advances in technology. Research shows that the computer can be an effective tool in both teaching and learning. As part of innovation,computer and internet became part of our need in learning. It helps us to know anything and connect us to everybody. It helps us also to learn something in a quick and easiest way by providing relevant and informative information online.
Online grade posting can eliminate the need for progress reports, saving paper and postage if mailed(suite101.com) Aside from the benefit mentioned above it also reduced cost in producing or making a progress report, thus making a paperless grading system.
An online grade book is a quick and efficient way for teachers and parents to interact with each other for a positive education experience. (www.opapers.com) Through online grading system, teachers can post the grades of his student anywhere or without going out to school thru the website of the school in internet. Students can also view their grades anywhere and anytime in just one click.
Parents can also view the progress of their child’s grade as well. Online posting system give parents complete access to all grades as they are posted at any time. (www.suit101.com)
Every parent wants the best for their children. They do everything to make sure that their future are in good shape and one thing to make it is to guide them on their studies. By monitoring their grades, they know how their children are doing in school.
By taking full advantage of online grade book software, no one is left in the dark to wonder about the overall progression of the individual student or the effectiveness of the teacher and administrators. (http:// www.articlesnatch.com)
In the traditional way, school used to do report card and mail it to the parents, school that mail progress reports, however can never be sure they reach the parents. This is one of the problems that might encounter by the school. Administrator cannot be sure that the grades they mailed will reach the parents, thus making the parents uninformed about the progress of their child. Some reason of this is when the family changed their mailing address or when it has been forgotten by the post office due to unexplainable reason. Another factor is the delay in mailing. Parents cannot know how their children are doing in school when they do not know about their grades and when finally they know about it, it is too late to guide or talked to their children.
On-line grade posting can results in more meaningful parent teacher conferences (www.suite101.com). It is because parents can view their child’s grade anytime and anywhere and since pertinent information are available online. Parents can ask the teacher why their child got a passed or failed grade immediately after looking at it online.
As said by Bequeaith, Superintendent and principal of Tonica Grade school District “this program increases the communication between parents, teacher, and students” (www.teacherease.com, 2004)
As for students, aside from seeing it anytime and anywhere it will be a great help for them to detect grading errors before they become bigger problem once final score are posted especially for those conscientious students as mentioned in online grade posting pros and cons www.suite101.com.
Through on-line grading and policy of schools on the duration on passing grades teachers are need to post grades on time so students can know their grades immediately and will make them think why they got a grade like that and realize they mistake/s and motivate theirselves to exert more effort in studying to have a good grades. As mentioned by Migliorino and, Maiden, 2004 and findarticles.com Grading programs, like those powered by Powerschool and Ecollege, allow teachers to spend more time planning instruction instead of figuring grades by hand. It is because teachers don’t have to compute all the grades of student. They just need to encode it to the schools database and the system will be the one responsible for computation and post it on-line so students know their grades after that. Nevertheless it is important for school district administrators to examine the developmental needs of all of their students prior to mandating a centralized information system or an electronic grade book (www.findarticles.com) it is important to the administrators to train the teachers about their system to make it effective. Administrator should provide an ongoing and current training to their employees for the better use of the system. It is also important to train parents and students as well. “Clearly, on-line grading system would be a highly desirable addition to the educational tool-kit, particularly if it can provide less costly and more effective outcome.”(Jeng, Alexisponniah, Askenazi, Burus, www.iiisci.org/journal)

Statement of the Problem This study entitled “Assessment of College Student of College of the Immaculate Conception to Online Grading System” Specifically, this study tried to answer the following question
1. How may the profile of the respondents described in terms of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Gender
1.3 Year level
1.4 Academic Performance

2. Is online grading program effective?

3. What can you say about the on-line grading system?

4. What are the benefits if online grading to you as
4.1 Students
4.2 Teachers
4.3 Administrators

Scope and Delimination The study specifically determines the assessment of college students of College of the Immaculate Conception to the online grading system. The profiles of the respondents were determined using a questionnaire. The respondents, college students gave their assessment to online grading system and its benefits to their academic performance.
The subject of the study was college students of College of the Immaculate Conception during the 1st semester of the school year 2011-2012. Significance of the Study: This study entitled “Assessment of College Student of College of the Immaculate Conception to Online Grading System” will be beneficial to the following:

For the students, it will make them understand the importance and benefits of the on-line grade posting thus, making them aware of it. It also helps them to detect errors in their grades and realize mistake and exert more effort for their studies.
For parents, it will make them know about online grade posting, it benefits to their children and their selves. It will help them understand what an on-line grade system is.
For teachers, it will serve as a tool in their teaching and know the effort on it to their students.
For the school, it will serve as the basis for them to know the opinions of the students about online grade posting and foster and improve what they have done. It will help them also in planning what is best for its stockholders.
For researchers, this study will be significant as a reference for future researcher and will guide for the better outcome of their research.