STAR RANKING METHODOLOGY

STAR RANKING METHODOLOGY

SEKOLAH KEBANGSAAN KAMPONG TENGAH

A 4-step methodology has been developed for assessing the 88 Smart Schools
and deriving the Star Ranking of each school:

1. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)


    The first step to the methodology is to establish Key Performance Indicators
    of the ICT Focus Areas. These KPIs set the accepted conditions and assign
    scores upon which the Star Ranking is based.

2. Survey and Appraisal


    Having established the KPIs, each Smart School will be surveyed to
    ascertain the conditions of each ICT Focus Area. The survey will be
    conducted quarterly while the online monitoring system captures
    live data that will verify the survey.


3. Smart School Qualification Standards (SSQS)

The SSQS outlines the ICT Focus Areas each Smart School is appraised on.
Each area carries its own weightage reflecting its significance in the SSQS.
The areas are:

 Utilization 40%
 Applications 40%
 Human Capital 10%
 Technology Infrastructure 10%

To qualify as a Smart School, the pilot schools must achieve the minimum
conditions (or 1 star) specified for each KPI within the ICT Focus Areas.

 Utilization: monitors the extent to which the school makes use of ICT in its
    operation, management, teaching and learning activities. Utilization accounts
    for 40% of the Star Ranking appraisal as it forms the integral part of
    transformation.

    Examples of KPIs within Utilization are: Student-to-PC contact hours,
    courseware integration by teachers for core subjects, SMS updating,
    Educational TV and LCMS usage, and student completion of self-learning
    module.


 Human Capital: refers to the competency of end-users in integrating ICT in
    teaching, learning and/or administration. Human Capital accounts for 40% of
    the Star Ranking appraisal.

    Examples of KPIs for Human Capital are: ICT Co-ordinators’ competency,
    core-subject teachers’ ICT competency, use of ICT in dissemination of
    information, smart partnerships, use of multimedia in teaching and the
    students’ awareness of the availability of educational courseware.

  Applications: refers to the various applications provided by the MoE and
    others that the schools have adopted. It accounts for 10% of the Star Ranking
    appraisal.

    Examples of KPIs for Applications are: at least 5 modules used for operations
    management, LCMS and MoE courseware are used for teaching, and website
    presence and maintenance.

 Technology Infrastructure: not only audits the provision of the infrastructure
    itself (provided by MoE) but also looks at maintenance and support of the
    infrastructure within the schools. As a large portion of the infrastructure
    provision is determined by MoE at the central level, this focus area accounts
    for only 10% of the Star Ranking appraisal.

    Examples of KPIs for Technology Infrastructure are: PC-to-Student ratio,
    PC-to-Teacher ratio, Projector-to-class ratio, PC accessibility, LAN &WAN,
    and technology downtime.


4. Star Ranking


The aim of this exercise is the quarterly Star Ranking, where Smart Schools are
measured in the ICT Focus Areas and ranked between 1 to 5 stars.
Schools which do not qualify for any Star Ranking may regard that as a clear
indication that they do not qualify as model smart schools, and urgent steps need
to be taken to regain position on the development track.
Schools which show a steady improvement or maintain an exemplary standard in
the key areas will be positioned as ideal role-model Smart Schools.
It is hoped that the 88 schools will make use of the ranking system to qualify
themselves as 5-Star Smart Schools.

The Star Ranking is awarded based on a unified score from the indicators to:
 Serve as a device for monitoring
 Provide information for specific actions to uplift schools
 Facilitate decision and policy making