The effects of the lack of parent involvement in their child’s education.

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1. Volumes have been written about the effects of the lack of parent involvement in their child’s education. One research study reports that parents sometimes are intimidated about and by the meaning of student learning data. In a minimum of one detailed paragraph, explain what information would be helpful to you in your professional role (administrator/principal, content leader/coach, master teacher, educational diagnostician, educational technologist, special education teacher, early childhood educator, etc.) for parents to know about the student learning data of the school. Include examples of ways that you (in your chosen role) could contribute to educating parents with that information. Be sure to respond to the post of two of your classmates.
2. Please reflect on your current practices as an educator as it relates to data collection and analysis. Reflect on the processes used in your current classroom and school as it relates to planning for student success and instructional improvement (assessing teachers) using data. How did you get to where you are as an educator? What has worked and what has not worked in terms of student outcomes in your classroom and schools? The age-old question must be considered, what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about the condition of your classroom or school? Can the problems or issues be fixed?
3. Consider the data that is collected in your classroom and school. How is this data used to make classroom level decisions? How is this data used to make school wide decisions? Think about the data that is collected by school leaders to assess and improve instruction. Identify the types of data that is collected to inform instructional decisions and to improve instructional outcomes.
4. Locate one or more peer reviewed research articles on continuous school improvement process. You may wish to focus your research on aspects of improving instructional outcomes, assessment, evaluation (teacher and/or student). Please address the following prompts in the discussion forum.
Answer the following questions: (1) What are the 3 ways that continuous school improvement uses evaluation? Which of the 3 ways are or will be most significant to your current or proposed professional role in the school? (2) Discuss (1) why and (2) how evaluating school goals and objectives is related to but different from evaluating school programs and processes.

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evious in creating endogenous switching costs. Companies like Vodafone are notorious for bundling their services, making it more expensive for consumers to switch or opt out of the contract (Burnett, 2014). While bundling seems cheaper, it removes transparency i.e. while some features may be desired, others are not, unnecessarily driving the price up. It is more expensive to consume the services individually, and since all firms in the market work in this manner, consumers are limited in their options. The firm has therefore created a scenario where they can generate greater revenue and make customers less likely to switch. The final model is as shown, where bundling, B, and switching costs make it harder for the customer to leave.

Challenging, expensive cancellation processes and rolled over contracts makes bundling even more effective. When customers can’t terminate contracts easily, such as with EE and Virgin Media, it prevents switching. Fining companies and passing legislation to reduce exit fees for violating the contract would make it easier for consumers to switch.

Rolled over contracts means firms automatically renew contracts without efficiently warning customers. This comes at a risk of paying a higher fee, for the same service, each successive period; ‘price jumps’ in the energy sector, ‘price walking’ in insurance and ‘legacy pricing’ in broadband (CMA, 2018).

An effective measure of stopping firms unreasonably increasing prices is through price capping. In the energy industry for example, it can be a maximum limit on what can be charged per kWH. Ofgem implemented a price cap on energy prices at the start of 2019 with savings estimated to be £76 per average household (Ofgem, 2018).

Another solution is to promote greater transparency. Citizens Advise suggested that the mortgage market should change the name of ‘standard variable rate’ to ‘expired rate’ (Citizens Advice, 2017). This alerts consumers that their discounted rate has ended, and they are now going to be charged at a higher level. Greater transparency is likely to incentivise obdurate customers to look for better deals as the asymmetry of information is mitigated.

The CMA also suggested that firms should also be held publicly accountable for their exploitative techniques (CMA, 2018). For example, Ofcom launched the ‘Boost Your Broadband’ website advising customers on the best broadband deals they can get in their area (Ofcom, 2018). The rise of price comparison websites, and campaigns to inform consumers are also useful. Ofgem’s collective switch trial saw the switching rate increase from 2.6% to 22.4% when households were notified that they were overpaying for their services (Ofgem, 2018).

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