Wagau Primary School introducing electronic grading

MOROBE’s Wagau Primary School in Bulolo is introducing an electronic grading system to eliminate human error when recording students’ grading.
The system will help fast track academic assessment and eliminate human error and give fair grading to students according to their academic performance.
School head teacher Mathew Eliah announced to parents that with the system, they will be able to monitor students’ performance, as well as teachers’. “This is because in order for raw data to be made available for entering into the system, the teaching cycle has to be completed,” Eliah said.
“Teachers are aware that the teaching cycle includes planning, preparing, teaching and assessing.
“All these have to be executed for students to gain a score that we can enter into the electronic assessment system.”
With the system now in place, the school will be able to know the teachers’ performances. “It will be easy to know which teachers are doing their jobs and which are not,” Eliah said.
“We will monitor and know through during the entry of raw data into the system.”
Eliah said students were also given an admission number during registration, and this was to avoid favouritism and cheating by teachers and assessment officers.
The system had a set formula that is used to do grading and placement, but the formula is locked.
Eliah said that at the end of each
assessment period, the spreadsheets for each student would be printed out for teachers to comment on students’ behaviour and character, and have them sign them before handing over to parents as a report card.
“The system makes it possible for the assessment to progress and, so, the schools only keep a soft copy of the results that can be pulled out later for verification,” Eliah said.