As an education candidate, I understand the importance of maintaining accurate records. In a classroom, a teacher is faced with the responsibility of an entire group of students. Teachers must be organized and maintain records on each student in order to be successful. Within my classroom, we have multiple ways of maintaining accurate records. One of these is the way we take attendance and lunch count at the same time. We use magnets that have each child's name and class number written on them which they move to the type of lunch that they want each day. This allows students to contribute information and participate in maintaining the records. This way of taking lunch count is able to tell us multiple pieces of information all at once, and it allows for student choice and involvement. This follows the research by A.W. Austin on Student Involvement. This theory details the research that academic performance correlates with student involvement. This theory also states that students what a student gains from being involved and active is proportional and comparable to how much they were involved. This supports the decision that allowing students to be involved in maintaining records is a positive addition to the classroom. Another way that we maintain accurate records is by using a checklist to monitor the completion of assignments and progress. This creates a simple and easy-to-read system for maintaining information on student completion of assignments, student progress in learning, and noninstructional records in a fully effective manner. Another way that we maintain accurate records is by having parents sign a completion sheet in the student's homework folders every night. This allows for parent involvement and they are able to clearly see what their student needs to have done as the week goes on. This allows us to know if students are doing what they need to be doing at home and if parents are becoming involved in the learning process.