Departmental Result Processing Application
Chapter One
AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of this project is to design a secondary school result processing system for God saves scools.
The objective of this project is to design and develop system that can:
- Provide a software that will generate result that is accurate, timely and error free.
- Maintain a reliable database for storage of students’ records and update as the need arises.
- Restrict unauthorized access to the students’ record.
- Produce relevant report of students’ general performance at the end of every academic semester, presented in the form of tables.
- To minimize and reducing the problems created by the manual systems of result processing.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
There were three fundamentally distinct education systems in Nigeria in 1990, namely the indigenous system, Quranic schools, and formal European-style education institutions (Farrar, 2005). In the rural areas where the majority lived, children learned the skills of farming and other work, as well as the duties of adulthood, from participation in the community. This process was often supplemented by age-based schools in which groups of young boys were instructed in community responsibilities by mature men. By the 1970s, education experts were asking how the system could be integrated into the more formal schooling of the young, but the question remained unresolved by 1990.
Western-style education came to Nigeria with the missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century Cyril (2000). Although the first mission school was founded in 1843 by Methodists, it was the Anglican Church Missionary Society that pushed forward in the early 1850s to found a chain of missions and schools, followed quickly in the late 1850s by the Roman Catholics. In 1887 in what is now southern Nigeria, an education department was founded that began setting curricula requirements and administered grants to the mission societies.
The education system focused strongly on examinations. Frederick (1916), first governor of the unified colony, set up a school inspectorate. Discipline, buildings, and adequacy of teaching staff were to be inspected, but the most points given to a school’s performance went to the numbers and rankings of its examination results. This stress on examinations was still used in 1990 to judge educational results and to obtain qualifications for jobs in government and the private sector.
As more information is made available in a variety of formats and media and in a variety of locations, the need to manage information/data efficiently becomes more and more critical. Both staff and public users want access to stored information and want to access it more efficiently. It is the general policy for schools to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of course registration and result processing operations and services through the implementation of an integrated automated database System.
RESULT PROCESSING AND ASSOCIATED CONCEPTS
PROCESSING
Practically all naturally occurring processes can be viewed as examples of data processing systems where “observable” information in the form of pressure, light, etc. are converted by human observers into electrical signals in the nervous system as the senses we recognize as touch, sound, and vision. Even the interaction of non-living systems may be viewed in this way as rudimentary information processing systems. Conventional usage of the terms data processing and information systems restricts their use to refer to the algorithmic derivations, logical deductions, and statistical calculations that recur perennially in general business environments, rather than in the more expansive sense of all conversions of real-world measurements into real-world information in, say, an organic biological system. Cyril (2000)
The importance of high-speed data processing and communication to modern society and economy can scarcely be exaggerated. Thomas Friedman, in The World is Flat (Farrar, 2005) argues that they have wrought a more profound revolution change in communication and trade than did the Gutenberg printing press and have changed the world permanently in far less time. The proliferation of PCs, PDAs and cellular communications, the ubiquity of the internet and the accelerating development of software that allows all of these technologies to interact on a common communication framework have “flattened” our world, in Friedman’s parlance, by literally erasing the significance of geography and national boundaries in the conduct of commerce and trade. Together with the emergence of the leadership and management practices to take advantages of these “flatteners”, and the collapse of political and economic barriers that accompanied the end of the cold war, what Friedman calls the “triple convergence” has literally “changed everything”. Friedman’s observations are supported by the words of the CEO of Hewlett Packard, that the world is entering “an era in which technology will literally transform every aspect of business, every aspect of life and every aspect of society.
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DATA PROCESSING
There are problems with data processing with respect to Computer. The problems are the same as those problems encountered when using Computer.
The major problem is hardware failure, which may be caused by power (supply of current).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
A methodology is a system of methods used in a particular area of study. It is a body of practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an enquiry. It is in other words, a set of working methods.
Methodology involves a process whereby the existing or current system is studied to identify the information requirements. It is used to refer to a specific series of steps or procedures which governs the analysis and design of a particular project. It also includes the techniques and methods which are used to collect and analyze information.
For the interest of this work, Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology SSADM will be employed. SSADM is an integrated set of standards which guides the analysis and design of computer systems.
ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
When a student is admitted, he/she has to undergo some registration processes. The current departmental registration system of the institution is a manual one. This makes the system sometimes tedious and time consuming. Here, students have to visit the school secretary with a list of his credentials for proper registration..
In the manual system, the registration forms are documented in a file cabinet. Each time the student form is needed, a search operation is conducted on the file cabinets to locate a particular student’s information.
OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system will make use of a computerized approach in improving the functionality of the current system.
The proposed system will fulfill the under listed expectations:
- Functionality: It must successfully support the user’s requirements. Specified hardware, software and business routine must enable the staff effectively undertake their processing tasks.
- Accuracy: The problem of inaccuracy and data entry error should be easily checked and remedied
- Efficiency: It will be able to meet functional requirement within a specified time.
- Economical: It will be highly economical, demand minimum storage and minimize redundant data stored by the system in order to reduce the problems associated with data redundancy.
- User friendliness: The system should provide comfortable environment for work.
CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION
INTRODUCTION
A system is an organized collection of inter related subsystems with a collective responsibility of meeting a goal. Dependent subsystems are regularly interacting while independent group of components forming a unified whole work like standalone in achieving a specified task.
A system also defined as an organized or complex unitary whole. System testing is therefore the study of the system’s processing including investigation of inputs and outputs in order to find better, more economical and efficient means of processing data.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUMMARY
This research work focuses on the use of computer system with reference to course registration, result processing in Computer Science department of Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa.
The work covers the current mode of existing system as regards the problems identified, stating the aims of the new system, stating the various specifications and then implementing the programs. The work was successfully developed using Microsoft Visual C# programming language, a user- friendly programming language, and the package was tested and improved upon which yielded an effective software.
The project work cannot be said to be perfect, but its benefits cannot be overemphasized. It has led to the improvement in the speed of processing operation, efficiency, accuracy and improved storage of data.
CONCLUSION
Realizing a project of this nature is very exciting. However, the students encounter a lot a problem, which I believe if looked into, will go a long way toward reducing the tension associated with the design implementation and construction of the project.
In spite of the constraints encountered during the implementation of this project, the aim of my project is well accomplished.
Moreover, an attempt to accomplish this project has taken care of the delay between examination and result processing with minimum mistakes. This has also forced me to learn, practically, what is involved in the design and implementation or computerization of project (existing or non-existing).
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the achieved objective of this project and the experiences gained during its designed and implementation, I wish to recommend that other departments adopt the use of this application for processing their students’ results.
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