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> the school claimed this way of taking attendance saves a calculated 72,000h of teachers time per year in just this school Which is 197h per day. I find this
by Iv 7y ago
> the school claimed this way of taking attendance saves a calculated 72,000h of teachers time per year in just this school
Which is 197h per day. I find this number extremely dubious.
- nmstoker 7y agoThe figure I saw (on the BBC article and the linked Swedish article) was 17,000 hours per year in this school. That still seems suspect: estimating a school year of 35 weeks that's 175 days, thus 97 hours per day across all teachers. Even if it were some mega school of 1,000 pupils and maybe 100 teachers that seems high, would imply they spent perhaps ten minutes of every hour in a six hours day taking & dealing with attendance on average! (obviously based on assumptions, so this could vary) It feels like a number that was come up with (or at least inflated) to justify the project.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoPerhaps it is a number based on the time that would be required for teachers to perfectly track attendance. But of course they don't in practice!
- havkom 7y agoMy fault. 17 280 h per year was the calculated savings
- SiempreViernes 7y agoThe new system could well have automated more than just the role call, and so they can add in savings in the post processing of the attendance records.
- labawi 7y agoPerhaps .. But what processing was enabled that could not have been done without camera surveillance?
- SiempreViernes 7y agoMy point is that the gain in time could we be mostly due to automating other parts of the system that are currently done manually.
- havkom 7y agoMy fault. 17 280 h per year was the calculated savings