According to Secretary of Education Armin A. Luistro, “Considering the size of the Department and the number schools under it, it is very critical for the Agency to be equipped with the right information at the right time to be able to make better decisions. This is essentially an online registry of learners that is important for any educational system or institution. We need to continually get to know our learners better so that we can respond better.”
WHAT IS LEARNERS’ INFORMATION SYSTEM?
L.I.S. is a unique and permanent 12 – digit number assigned to a person who enters the Philippine Basic Education Program. Intended to reference a “Registry of Learners” which serves as a centralized and authoritative database of learners’ basic education
It is issued to a learner when he or she registers in the basic education program either at the start of the program (i.e., kindergarten level) or when the learner transfers from a school and has not yet been issued an LRN.
Ex: 301432080055 301432 – School ID 08 – School Year 0055 – Student Number
WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES?
Learners’ Information Systems offers access to learner profiles in the registry and even performance data as he or she completes the program, whether it be in the formal or non- formal mode of learning.
It is intended to:
- Provide a standardized registration system of learners.
- Track learner progress performance.
- Provide learner information for better program planning and supervision of schools and learning centers.
- Enhance management of learner records.
A Learners’ Information System (LIS) enables teachers to have:
- more frequent assessment
- more detailed assessment
- in less time
- with greater consistency
For the teacher, detailed feedback on the performance of all the learners in the class is provided with no expenditure of teacher assessment time (although the teacher needs time to review the data, reflect and decide upon appropriate professional action). An indication of the degree of success in each learner’s performance is available, in relation to their individual functional operating level and the number and difficulty of tasks they have attempted. Thus the teacher is enabled to ensure that all learners are consistently operating within their own “zone of proximal development” – optimum level of challenge.
Of course, information on learning effectiveness is of no significance if it is not acted upon. Teachers thus need to respond to LIS data by intervening appropriately with learners (through informal learning counselling, adapted selection of tasks, or other guidance), subsequently using the LIS to track the effectiveness of their intervention.
Is Learner’s Information System really HELPFUL?
Last 2011, the Department of Education initiated the Learners’ Information System (LIS), an online facility that provides for the registration of learners enrolled in public schools. Since its installation, the LIS has allowed the Department to generate the total public school enrollment based on the actual registration of learners. The LIS is an innovative tool that the Department uses to manage information with the aim of promoting transparency, informed decision making, and empowerment at different levels of the organization. While being a tech-based solution, the LIS involves an inclusive, community-driven process that thrives because of the active engagement and participation of all teachers, principals, planning officers and other DepEd personnel all throughout the Philippines. This system is envisioned to allow the Department to better track its learners in both formal and non-formal instruction so that more appropriate interventions can be formulated in the provision of quality education for all Filipino learners. As an example, students who transfer from one school to another can be monitored and better assisted by using data from the L.I.S.
When we talk about defects, almost everything has it and L.I.S. is no excuse to that. It is an online system that requires internet connection. In this case, strong internet connection is what a teacher needs. It also requires a wide range of knowledge in using computer and internet. But the case is, not all teachers have their own laptop or computer and internet connection, worse some teachers, most especially the senior teachers are not computer literate.
But DepEd implemented it because they view it as helpful as it is. LIS is used and applied for an easy access of the information of the students and is also been a way for easy tracking of the student’s previous records. The teacher, more specifically the adviser do not have to write everything on a piece of paper and worry to make mistake because erasures and tampering in forms is proscribed. LIS is also safe and secured because once the teacher had input the data of the students, misplacing the forms will not be a problem anymore for it is accessible now to the internet. This system is envisioned to allow the Department to better track its learners in both formal and non-formal instruction so that more appropriate interventions can be formulated in the provision of quality education for all Filipino learners.
Pros and Cons in almost everything is inevitable and Learners’ Information System is not exempted to that. But despite of this, teachers must had to oblige. Only because the DepEd envisions for the welfare of both teachers and students and is also implementing only the best and appropriate for the teaching and learning scenarios.
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