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school policies. Innovation within schools and colleges needs to be actively managed
if schools want to keep up-to-date. Institution-centred codes of conduct help teach-
ers, school leaders and local authorities to integrate new technologies into the school
and college systems. Recent examples include phones and social networking for
Table 8.2
Characteristics of effective technology-based tools for curriculum administration,
accountability and monitoring
Characteristic
Tools should:
Pedagogical
characteristics
· support formative assessment and improving learning rather than
focusing on summative outcomes, that is, the technology should
support the processes of learning rather than just recording the
outcomes of learning
· not just focus on target-led approaches and measurable outcomes
· subject specific assessment tools should not be abstract but should
include applications to the real world.
· enable more generalized thinking and higher-order skills development
· ensure exchange of data with a variety of devices by:
- linking with e-portfolios - enabling teachers to easily record and
monitor learners' progress, for example, in recording evidence
for the six areas of achievement at the foundation stage; enabling
learners to upload e-portfolio material
- linking with PdAs which are used for recording learner progress
data, for example, observation data
- providing hyperlinks between assessment evidence and grades
- dealing with digital data, for example, videos
design characteristics · support communication between stakeholders, by
- being open to scrutiny by learners, teachers, parents and
management
- supporting blogging to engage and interact with parents and
learners
- being intuitive to use
- being easily updatable by whole school/college workforce
- sending alerts
· be simple and strongly visual: e.g. outliers on graphs showing pupil
achievement progress should be highlighted, using a traffic-light
system when learners are falling behind or achieving well, to enable
target setting and half-termly reporting
· provide immediate access and updates, by
- providing feedback to learners and teachers on demand
- identifying irregular attendance patterns and communicating this to
teachers and parents
- being updatable quickly by the whole school/college workforce in
response to events
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