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Fostering the Family-School Relationship with a Web-Based Application

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This work describes the design of a Web application that allows not only the communication of families with schools but also their immersion in the learning process of their children, so they can contribute in its mediation. To develop this project, an analysis of the needs of teachers in relation to communication with families was needed. To this end, a pilot study has been carried out with 40 teachers of pre-school and primary education and a low-cost information system has been developed. The results obtained reveal that the use of this platform has been useful and effective to enhance the communication process with families and to make them participate in the teaching and learning process of their children.

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Acknowledgments

This research is partially funded by Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), through the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED, http://ited.unir.net).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. I.E.S. Inca Garcilaso, Av. de La Constitución, 14, 14550, Montilla, Córdoba, Spain

    Jesús Pérez-Navarro

  2. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Avda de La Paz 137, 26006, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Natalia Padilla-Zea, Juan Antonio Sicilia & Lara Orcos

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  1. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Daniel Burgos

  2. Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Marta Cimitile

  3. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Pietro Ducange

  4. Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Como, Italy

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  5. SMARTEST Research Centre, Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Como, Italy

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  6. Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Italy

    Paolo Raviolo

  7. Open University in the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Christian M. Stracke

Annex I – Pre-application Survey

Annex I – Pre-application Survey

  1. 1.

    Your center is: (a) private, (b) state-subsided, (c) private school with public funds.

  2. 2.

    Has your center Internet connection in all the classrooms? (a) yes, (b) no.

  3. 3.

    Do you think that using an on-line platform (like Edmodo, Moodle) could be fruitful in pre-school and primary school? (a) yes, (b) no, (c) Maybe, I don’t know these platforms.

  4. 4.

    How much involved are your students’ parents? (Rated from 0 to 10, being 0 inexistent and 10 total involvement).

  5. 5.

    Do you find a cause-effect relationship between parents’ involvement and students’ academic results? (a) yes, (b) no.

  6. 6.

    To communicate with parents about issues related to discipline, what means do you use more frequently? (a) the tutorial timetable, (b) group meeting with the tutor, (c) occasional meetings with the tutor, (d) notes in students’ school diary, (e) postal mail, (f) telephone, (g) social networks (twitter, Facebook), (h) whatsApp, (i) e-mail.

  7. 7.

    To communicate with parents about issues related to material, didactical books, uniform/attire or student’s organization, what means do you use more frequently? (a) the tutorial timetable, (b) group meeting with the tutor, (c) occasional meetings with the tutor, (d) notes in students’ school diary, (e) postal mail, (f) telephone, (g) social networks (twitter, Facebook), (h) whatsApp, (i) e-mail, (j) subject blog.

  8. 8.

    To communicate with parents about issues related to extracurricular activities, what means do you use more frequently? (a) the tutorial timetable, (b) group meeting with the tutor, (c) occasional meetings with the tutor (d) notes in students’ school diary, (e) postal mail, (f) telephone, (g) social networks (twitter, Facebook), (h) whatsApp, (i) e-mail, (j) subject blog.

  9. 9.

    To communicate with parents about issues related to students positive behaviors or actions, what means do you use more frequently? (a) the tutorial timetable, (b) group meeting with the tutor, (c) occasional meetings with the tutor, (d) notes in students’ school diary, (e) postal mail, (f) telephone, (g) social networks (twitter, Facebook), (h) whatsApp, (i) e-mail, (j) subject blog.

  10. 10.

    To communicate with parents about issues related to students negative behaviors or actions, what means do you use more frequently? (a) the tutorial timetable, (b) group meeting with the tutor, (c) occasional meetings with the tutor, (d) notes in students’ schools diary, (e) postal mail, (f) telephone, (g) social networks (twitter, Facebook), (h) whatsApp, (i) e-mail, (j) subject blog.

  11. 11.

    Indicate the tool you use to manage grades: (a) Excel, (b) paper-based sheet, (c) internal e-learning platform, (d) other.

  12. 12.

    To communicate with parents about student’s intermediate grades, what means do you use? (a) paper-based report, (b) notes in the student’s school diary, (c) e-mail, (d) whatsapp, (e) telephone.

  13. 13.

    If your center were going to be gifted with a customized platform, what issue would do you prefer to be managed? (a) administrative and counting management, (b) school canteen, (c) parents communication, (d) grades management, (e) automatic generation of students statistical reports, (f) school diary management, (g) e-learning platform.

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Pérez-Navarro, J., Padilla-Zea, N., Sicilia, J.A., Orcos, L. (2019). Fostering the Family-School Relationship with a Web-Based Application. In: Burgos, D., et al. Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online. HELMeTO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1091. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31284-8_13

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