How can online polling help schools learn how to improve quality of secondary education?
Changes in curriculum, instructional methods, and forms of evaluation usually occur in response to government mandates without input from the students most affected by such decisions. People generally acknowledge that growing up in a technological society is considerably different from the ways things were during their own adolescence. Nevertheless, adults continue to rely on their own observations about education as the only source of perception regarding school reform. This practice causes many students to conclude that grownups do not value reciprocal learning or care about the concerns of teenagers. Boards of education have been urged to adopt a new paradigm that invites and values the observations of students. The student outlook should be understood because improving the quality of their experience is the purpose of education reform. To increase achievement, there is a corresponding need to enhance capacity of schools to promote learning. Finding out the student view can yield in
