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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the problems related to establishing attendance tracking technologies in a college setting, provides a list of possible equipment necessary and considers student reaction to this process.
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significant legal, monetary (funding) and academic issues related to student attendance, technology-based tracking systems, like those used by many business, have been designed to improve accuracy in a number of
universities. Though these technologies require complexity in design and implementation, they appear to be the wave of the future, and many students have had to face the emergence of
these technologies as a fact of daily life. Automated attendance systems, or technology-based student tracking, was created to address the problems college attendance policies and their implementation in
different classroom settings. For example, in large lecture halls which can hold hundreds of students, the practice of "calling roll" is not only time consuming but impractical. In
these situations, some professors have utilized the sign-in policy, requiring students to sign a sheet of paper that records their attendance. Unfortunately, this system also requires that the professor
record this sheet after each lecture, and this impacts the viability of this form of student attendance tracking. It also allows other students to "sign-in" for a student not
in attendance, also impacting the accuracy of this policy. In some lecture halls, assigned seats allow professors to simply note the students not in attendance, but depending on the
size of the lecture hall, this can also be problematic and time consuming. This is one way a student could address the primary arguments surrounding automation: The automated attendance systems
appear to address the concerns of this type of problem, and have been designed in two ways. Sensor-based tracking systems were designed for use in large lecture halls to
provide a record of each person sitting in a seat during the class period. Professors assign numbered seats, and any seats that are not filled after the first ten
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