Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
Introduction
Classroom management is a very crucial factor in an educational
institution. Several tasks comprise classroom management, such as: plotting
the resources, capacity of every classroom, arranging of class schedules, and
the ratio of the number of teachers to the students, the number of
population to be accepted every academic year (Ed Glossary, 2014). The
most complex of these tasks is academic scheduling which generally refers
to institutional activities that support delivery of subjects and academic
programs. It is a complex process that lies at the center of operations in a
school head’s office (Usman, 2016). However, successful classroom
management is subjected to so much pressure that, more often than not,
results to inefficient and overlapping schedule of outputs and thus need re-
scheduling (Johnston, 2021).
Samar College Elementary School is an educational institution which
offers basic education services to its clientele, more particularly to the
community of the Samar Island. The school regularly operates starting from
pre-enrolment period to the end of the academic year. Some of the activities
that teachers and department heads do before the start of classes include:
arrangement of class schedules and teachers’ load, settlement of classroom
use for the students and faculty, in the Basic Education Department. These
activities require physical strength and time.
However, the school uses the manual way in the preparation and
submission of class schedules to the school’s enrollment system and
submission of computed grades. For example, the school’s current
scheduling method - does not really help in scheduling classes efficiently
because of undetermined number of students, availability of resources and,
rapid shifted of manpower. This method still needs an expert user to
configure the task and do it in a timely manner.
The use of this study’s Classroom Management Using Expert System
(CMES) in Samar College will help keep track of the available resources,
project the total number of population to be accommodated upon
enrollment, auto-generate class schedules, upload class schedules to the
enrollment system, and automated grading system.
The CMES is important in distributing the resources needed thoroughly
and correctly. Nowadays, there are several solutions or applications that help
in generating a classroom management system with the help of artificial
intelligence. Some of these methods that are available are expert system,
genetic algorithm, and fuzzy logic. Each method has its own way of
performing a solution.
Classroom Management using Expert System(CMES) is a software that
aims to assist Samar College’s Faculty of Elementary and Junior High School
Departments in scheduling a teacher’s program, generating class schedules,
uploading generated schedule to Samar College enrollment system,
projecting the total student population, downloading lists of enrolled
students per section, and importing class schedules to teachers’ portable
class record.
This system conforms to the school policies and national standards of
classroom management in the elementary and secondary levels. This system
also used a user-friendly graphical interface. The use of CMES in Elementary
and Secondary Department would provide convenience to the school heads
as the system will save them from tedious manual job and laborious task.
This system would also augment the school’s productivity because of the
reduced time they would need to allot and consume in the class
management of students and teachers, giving them more time to work on
other important matters.
Therefore, the researcher of this study stands very optimistic that the
final output of this Class Management using Expert System would be very
useful to Samar College’s elementary and secondary levels’ school heads.