Developing and Evaluating Digital School Asset Management for Accountability in an Indonesian Island District
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Elementary schools require reliable asset information to account for infrastructure and coordinate district oversight. This study developed and evaluated a digital School Asset Management Information System (SIMA) in Tinangkung, an Indonesian island district. An ADDIE research-and-development process combined baseline interviews and surveys, model design, expert review, pilot testing, and an expanded one-group pretest–posttest evaluation. Four experts judged the model fit for implementation with minor revisions; 30 users completed an 18-item practicality questionnaire; and 14 schools contributed paired accountability measurements. Preliminary responses showed manual records in 10 of 11 schools (90.9%) and no direct district data integration in seven (63.6%). The initial practicality score was 75.51% of the possible total. After implementation, mean data accuracy increased from 74.2% to 98.2%, reporting timeliness from 0.0% to 92.3%, and digital asset traceability from 75.4% to 100.0%. Mean normalized gains were 0.94, 0.92, and 1.00, respectively. Primary paired comparisons were statistically significant at the 5% level. The findings indicate promising short-term administrative improvements associated with a three-axis school–cloud–district system, while the absence of a comparison group prevents exclusive causal attribution. The analysis concerns operational governance indicators, not student achievement, long-term financial savings, cybersecurity assurance, or external audit judgments, none of which were measured directly.
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7225800478
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