An Undergraduate Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
City College of Lucena
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree of
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
By:
Jaymark O. Ruelo
Karen Joy E. San Miguel
Elisa Jeane O. Sameniano
Ma. Jennica J. Fabunan
March 2013
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
1. INTRODUCTION Innovation and technology, that’s what we aim for today’s generation, we are always searching and experimenting new things to feed our wants in life. Education guiding mainstream schools today is that education is the delivery of knowledge, skills, and information from teachers to students. While the above metaphor—education as a delivery system—sounds reasonable, it misses what is most important about education. This mistaken idea of what true education is and how it can be achieved is the root problem in mainstream education today. This conception of education contributes to harming students and teachers by driving policy makers to insist on accounting for the "units" of information that students demonstrate knowledge of on tests. The perceived need for mass scale standardized outcomes leads to a kind of instructional bookkeeping that drives administrators to control teachers' behavior, which in turn is directed to controlling students' behavior in ways that increases symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other forms of diminished psychological well-being. Student outcomes as measured by tests bear little relationship to true education, and so the instructional bookkeeping scheme is a failure even before the harm it causes is taken into consideration. Examination in general, non-destructive inspection, investigation, or testing of materials, products, or services to determine their conformation to specifications or requirements usually