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Information Technology's Impact on School-Parents and Parents-Student Interrelations: A Case Study
K-12 - Case Study; Moshe Telem, Tel-Aviv University and Sherly Pinto, Ort High School
This paper examines the impact of a school management information system on the way in which parents interact with a school and their children by measuring student learning, behavior, and attendance (LBA). The study tracks students in a vocational high school in a mainstream socioeconomic neighborhood over the course of one year. The results indicate that parental interactions with school personnel increased and student behavior changed noticeably especially among those with LBA problems. The paper's results add the information technology dimension to parents' involvement in school research, a dimension neglected to date.
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