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Computer is an extension of man?s ability to compute. One of the most important characteristics of a computer is its ability to store and process information. This ability of computer is all achieved through programming. In the world today, application software has been assisting various organizations in carrying out their operations successfully and reliably. Manual examination recording has been a problem to many institutions of higher learning like Kogi State Polytechnics, Lokoja using Computer Science Department as a sample for the research work. The effort made so far towards overcoming this problem by the manual system have been sabotage by error and abuse of different kinds, this and many other difficulties involved have prompted a curious attention towards Computerization of student examination result system at a every level of education, because it reduce cost and time, increase accessibility of information on students examination and proper recording. | ABSTRACT
This project was centered on traffic offence documentation system. The current process of traffic offence documentation is being operated manually and due to this procedure numerous problem are been encountered. A design was taken to computerized the manual process in order to check this problem. The problems were identified after series of interviews and examination of documents after which analysis was made and a computerized procedure recommended. This project will also suggest how to successfully implement the computerized procedure and to overcome the obstacle that would hinder the successful implementation of the system. The new system was designed using visual basic 6.0 and Microsoft access database. This language was chosen because of its easy syntax and features for developing windows based applications | ABSTRACT
Unemployment in the present day Nigeria resulted from different misgivings and lack of direct approach to by those concerned to tackle this problem. There are very few jobs compared to the large number of citizens up to the age of being in the labor force. In recent years, subsequent governments and corporate bodies have one way or the other tried to device a means of reducing the instances of unemployment, some being successful to some extent, and other cases having efforts and huge finances being wasted due to lack of proper management, supervision and low productive system of operation.
This research project is dedicated to providing a new system that would solve the problem of linking a large number of unemployed individuals to firms, companies, institutions or government agencies that are in need of employing people for one reason or the other. This project has an its case study. The National Directorate of Employment (Owerri Secretariat). It is an agency formed by the Federal Government with the sole purpose of employing as many unemployed individuals into the labor force.
This research work, right from its inception is dedicated to greatly solving the problem of errors prone to the manual method of collecting, managing and storing of data as well as distributing processed information. It introduces an electronic means known as Automation, a process that entails the use of the computer and its accessories to manage data and information at a more efficient and effective rate. This would be achieved by introducing an Automated Employment Directory for Labor Assignment System, hence the project topic: ?An Automated Employment Directory and Labor Assignment System?. | ABSTRACT
E-mail as ten uses platform is more of conversational than traditional paper communication is. In this project, design and assimilation of ten users E-mail platform, it is absolutely essential to make everything completely clear unambiguous because the targeted audience may not have a chance to ask for clarification, with ten E-mail platform recipient can ask question immediately. This ten users E-mail platform is implementing using vb.net embedded into java making it easier to access it online. Thus, E-mail platform is different from both our speech and our paper composition; it is a particular platform of Electronic mail that allows ten users only. | ABSTRACT
The manual approach used in the regulation of the school activities by the management board is very tedious and stressful. This research work investigated into the complications encountered due to the debilitation of man-power admitted into the school management with respect to how indepth it affects other operational system that conduct in school with a view of designing a computerized system to handle the work with less difficulty for an effective decision-making.
In the course of the study, an existing system was digested and its deficiencies were detected and emphatically analysed, after which solutions to the problems were proffered in the new designed computerized system that is reliable and more interactive. The new system terminates all the problems experienced with the existing system. The case study is Post-Primary School Management Board (PPSMB) Enugu. |
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This paper presents a graphcoloringbased algorithm for the exam scheduling application, with the objective of achieving fairness, accuracy, and optimal exam time period. Through the work, we consider few assumptions and constraints, closely related to the general exam scheduling problem, and mainly driven from accumulated experience at various collages. The performance of the algorithm is also a major concern of this paper.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1INTRODUCTION
An undirected graph G is an ordered pair V, E where V is a set of nodes and E is a set of nondirected edges between nodes. Two nodes are said to be adjacent if there is an edge between them. The graph coloring is a wellknown problem. Node coloring assigns colors to the nodes of the graph such that no two adjacent nodes have the same color. Edge coloring assigns colors to the edges of the graph such that no two adjacent edges have the same color. Two edges are said to be adjacent if they both share a node in common. General graph coloring algorithms are well known and have been extensively studied by researchers.
Exam scheduling is a challenging task that universities and colleges face several times every year.
The challenge is to schedule so many exams of courses in a limited, and usually short, period of time. An Exam schedule should avoid conflicts, in the sense that no two or more exams for the same student are scheduled at the same time. Part of the challenge is to achieve fairness for the students. A fair schedule does not schedule more than two exams, for example for a student on one day. In the meantime, a fair schedule does not leave a big gap between exams for the students. The exam scheduling problem is defined as follows: We first represent the courses by nodes of a graph, where two nodes are adjacent if the two corresponding courses are registered by at least one student. Then, it is required to assign each course represented by a node a time slot, such that no two adjacent nodes have the same slot, in condition that a set of constraints imposed on the problem are also met. We solve this problem by using node graph coloring technique.
This study provides a mechanism for automatic examschedule generation that achieves fairness, and minimizes the exam period. As a result, this paper presents a graphcoloringbased algorithm for the exam scheduling application which achieves the objectives of fairness, accuracy, and optimal exam time period.
Numerous studies have considered the problem of exam scheduling. The main difference between various studies is the set of assumptions and constraints taken into consideration. Burke, Elliman and Weare, for example, followed a similar approach using graph coloring. However, in their algorithm, they addressed only the conflicts without any constraints. Moreover, the algorithm presented in does not eliminate conflicts, and only aims at minimizing conflicts. In this paper, we consider few but important assumptions and constraints, closely related to the general exam scheduling, and mainly driven from the real life requirements collected through the experience at various universities. Such assumptions and constraints are distinct from those present in more general graph coloring problems. We summarize the main assumptions and constraints as follows:
1.The number of exam periods per day Time Slots TS can be set by the user. TS depend on college/department specific constraints. For example, a university that uses a 2hours exam period and begins the exam day at 8:00 am and finish at 8:00 pm, may set TS to 5.
2.The number of concurrent exam sessions or concurrency level Np depends on the number of available halls, and the availability of faculty to conduct the exams. Np is determined by the registrars office. This paper assumes that Np is a system parameter and the scheduling algorithm has been examined with several Np values.
3.A student shall not have more than y exams per day fairness requirement, and is treated as a system tunable parameter.
4.A student shall not have a gap of more than x days between two successive exams, and this factor is to be determined by the college or department another fairness requirement.
5.The schedule shall be done in the minimal possible period of time, i.e., minimize the number of exam slots and/or number of exam days. The exam time period is an outcome of the scheduling algorithm.
1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The current system at the collage, the collage only considers the hard constraints and ignores the soft constraints. For example, if the duration for the exam is seven days, the system will make sure the entire exam involve will be spread out within that duration without checking the resources allocation and student constraints. There are no standards for solution qualities that measure either the exam timetable is feasible or not. The system analyst just makes sure that there is no clashing for the students but get heavy work load on the student like a student writing a course of 6 credit unit on concurrent time without a rest of mind and soul.
Furthermore, each day there are only two slots available which are morning session and afternoon session. The main objective of an exam timetable is to guarantee that all exams are scheduled and students can sit all the exams that they are required to do and no string attaches.
1.3SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This study is primarily aimed at increasing efficiency in operations, reducing error and running cost, stabilising the degree of equatorial point of and standard level of exam schedule and runs the distribution of exam time in the collage by introducing an automated exam time scheduling system using color grapy algorithm system.
1.4 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this study is to improve current operational process in the collage in scheduling exam timetable to avoid classing by developing efficient computer software that can handle time schedule in a computerized fashion. | CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Man has continually been working for better, easier and faster ways of doing things. Technological development through the years has enabled us to do things with less effort new development in computer technology has allowed us to expense our capabilities. This is also applicable to our learning system.
Student at all levels of learning (i.e. primary, secondary and tertiary institutions) are expected to see their performance in classroom, exercises and examinations are carried out at the end of each term (semester) to enable grade performance monitoring and keep record for decision-making based on the instructions (school?s policy)
Grading of performance is needed to measure the level of understanding of lectures, lessons and the ability to accommodate accordingly; decision such as knowing the record of the highest student down to the lowest student in sequential order and to enable processing of result.
Normally, the examination recording involves arithmetic manipulations which are presently handled manually. Since this operation involves human operations problem arise from errors as a result of imperfection and inaccuracy, show speed, insecurity as well as high expenses are bound to exist.
In Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja which is the pivot of this research, a general application package (i.e. Microsoft excels) is use in result compilation and recording. However, it is observed that some short comings are still exhibited by the package owing to the fact that development is for general purpose applications. It involves about 80% manual and 20% computerization.
In the course of this research, a verbal discussion and examination recording revealed that a lot of time and human efforts are being wasted at the operation end of every semester result compilation. This makes the result recording a tedious and boring venture.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Result recording and compilation in Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja is associated with various problems. This project is step towards identifying this problem, which is likely to militate against god decision-making in the institution and ways to alleviate the burden associated with the existing system.
The head of department of various schools in the institution are involved in result recording of students in their departments. With the growing number of student in this institution, the need for comprehensive evaluation of each student performance, the existing system in use becomes so complex and tedious that the hands involved can no longer cope with the task at hand as such, the following problems are identified:-
a. Delay in recording exams result and decision making.
b. Poor security to data and information, hence giving room to illegal access to information.
c. Incorrect data entry giving rise to wrong information resulting in wrong decision making.
d. Inaccurate record keeping (on academics).
e. It becomes expensive involving too many hands.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The main aim of this study is to create a program that will allow for easy examination i.e. result recording system in the institution (i.e. Kogi State Polytechnics); it shall:-
a. Study and identify the limitation of the existing system.
b. Determine the deficiency in the package and hardware being used.
c. Reducing time and labour required in the existing system.
d. Facilitate accuracy and data security during and after recording.
e. Reduce to minimum or eliminate entirely, the problems encountered during updating of examination recorded.
The main objectives of this research work is to determine what the meaning of examination is and to develop a computer program using visual basic that could be used for documentation of examination result recording.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The under-listed are the significance of the proposed system:
a. Increase speed in result recording system thereby allowing for timely protection of exams record and taking of decision by management.
b. Eliminate drudgery (irrelevancy).
c. Reduce cost involvement and improved skill of the users.
d. Improve the accessibility and updating of data or information.
1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION
The scope of this project is to develop an automated examination recording that can handle result compilation and recording of the entire departments in the institution with ease.
The limitation of this research work is restricted for the automation of examination result recording. Also, the time factor poses major barriers to the researchers, in gathering enough facts within the period necessary for the completion and subsequent submission of this project.
1.6 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
a. EXAMINATION: This is the gesture of the school program, which make demand on lecturers to test the student assimilation of the things they were taught in the lecture room.
b. RECORDING: Recording can simply be defined as the process of keeping record of the student exams offered in a semester.
c. VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: This is a high level language used to code and subsequent running of a program.
d. MICROSOFT ACCESS: This is one of the database management system (DBMS) that is capable of storing a large volume of data.
e. RESULT: This is the outcome of an examination conducted for students.
f. NOTATION: Such as;
1. RCU- Registered credit unit
2. TCU- Total credit unit
3. CCP- Cumulative credit point
4. GPA-Grade point average
5. CGPA- Cumulative grade point average
6. CRCU- Cumulative registered credit unit
7. C/O- Carry over
8. GP- Grade point
9. U- Unit
10. CP- Credit point. | CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Around the world road traffic injuries are a major public health challenges that requires concerted efforts for effective and sustained prevention. An estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes every year and many as 50 million supper injuries. The world health organization believe that these figures could increase by more them half over the next 20year unless there is a firm commitment to road safety and accident prevention, especially in Nigeria, most adult will know of someone who has been killed or injured in a road traffic accidents. It is a dad fact that many of these accidents and their consequences will have been avoidable.
Therefore this project, computerized traffic offence documentation system will help to keep records of all traffic offences committed by road users and also maintain the databases of the commission (F R S C)
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The present system of traffic offence documentation system has a lot of problems which are mentioned below:
TIME: - going by the present system of operation, time is consumed in the manual handling of operation involves in road traffic documentation.
COST: - this is the greatest problem of the federal Road safety commission. The commission ends t o loose a lot of money running the agency manually.
DOCUMENT INSGRITY: This is viewed in the contest of the safety, in the contest of the safety, in validity of the records in the document files used in the report generation. In term of safety, the native of the system makes it vulnerable to left, fire or accidental distruction. This makes the system in safe as the time needed to replace lost data or files is enormously large.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This study is designed to help federal Read safety commission to document all road traffic offences incurred by the road users.
This study also tries to give an in-depth looking in the easiest and most effective way for the growth and development of the federal Road safety commission of Nigerian in order to control and render its activities to the Nigerian and other coteries.
1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives are as follows:
1. To provide better services to the public and users.
2. To keep records that are compact, integrated and up dated
3. To produce a system where information and output report will be produced or made available much faster more accurately and more detailed to the commission and the public (Road users).
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study is strived at finagling out how effective the computerization of Nigerian Road safety commission will improve the operation of the commission.
However, the research project is limited to traffic offence documentation section.
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. INFORMATION-this is the assemblage of data into a meaningful form.
2. F R S C
3. Computerization
4. ROAD USER
5. DATA
(2) FRSC: Federal Road safety commission a body responsible for the control of Road users in the country Nigeria.
(3) Road user: person or persons making use or applying on the road.
(4) Data- it is unprocessed information.
(5) Computerization: - refers to the application of computer in performing operations or man?s problem like on mechanical a counting. | CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Employment directory is a database of individuals which provides a list, usually in alphabetical order, of people?s names, contact address, telephone member and other personal information pertaining to a particular group of individuals known as applicants. This directory in its entirety also contains the curriculum vitae (C.V) of individuals grouped under different sections such as job seekers, short listed candidates for an interview or qualified persons designated an employment status, as the case may be.
The directory on its own enables an individual to conduct his/her search with little or no difficulty since the data he/she needs has already been formatted in such way the individual can access it with little or no skill at all. They usually stored under headings and are stored alphabetically. Technology has evolved in recent times to a level where competition between existing systems and a new design are accessed and compared on the basis of reliability, compatibility, output design, speed and efficiency, not to mention sophistication. Globally, people are mostly interested in systems that can match any standard found in the international market. This project, however is designed to assist employment agencies in their bid to connect firms or organizations in need of some qualified individuals to fill up vacancies in their establishments and also to help the public to be well informed of such vacancies, hence the choice of the National Directorate of Employment as the suitable case study for this research project.
1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND
This project is based on the gradual process of completely transferring the manual procedure of both managing and keeping track of information and data related to employment delivery. It is a project totally dedicated to the use of computes otherwise known as automation, to provide a faster, more reliable and accurate process of managing information that is greatly essential in the provision of employment by agencies working for the government or contracted by private bodies.
Computers these days are gradually being introduced into every sector of our daily lives and its use in managing database cannot be over emphasized computers have come a long way to replace human limitations such as the ability to perform series of repetitive activities without easily getting weary or entirely bored. It has saved human energy and performs its activities/functions much faster than the average man.
The few mention advantages and merits of automating (computerizing) certain activities over the usual manual way of carrying out similar activities, necessitated in making the researcher to propose and design a new system, which will entail the gradual change from the existing system of manually managing data to an automated system of the same procedure. This will culminate in the use of the computer to:
? Input data
? Process the data into information
? Store the information and
? Access the information at any given time and place whenever the need arises.
Although risks cannot be entirely ruled out when using an automated system, they are however minimal and highly reduced to the lowest level when qualified personnel are left to manage and administer the system.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The primary function of the National Directorate of Employment is to assist the government in providing jobs for the unemployed populace and also to help the unemployed to get gainful employment for their benefit. There are several problems hampering the link between qualified personnel (or applicants) to some potential employers. Most of such problems could be summarized into:
? Staff attitude: The nonchalant attitude of some of the staff of certain employment agencies towards requests due to some difficulty they encounter while collecting data. Also, some departments working under the some establishment view themselves as independent entities, hence the flow of information suffers serious setbacks and access to central data becomes increasingly difficult.
? Processing: Poor data and information flow within the organization due to job duplication and role redundancies and also errors due to incorrect entries from the public.
? Time wastage: Time wastages could be due to lack of well defined information retrieval system, insufficient number of employed personnel and delay caused by postal services. This affects the overall response time of the agency to requests.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
This research project, from its inception, has some targeted goals and objectives which serve as the motivating factor behind the system design. The new design is intended to be efficient in the sense that the database software would produce the required results satisfactorily without much time and valuable resources being wasted. The project would in turn be a reliable substitute in the sense that the usual process of manually storing, retrieving already collected data or information, which are at most times error prone due to human factors such as commission, are eliminated. In other words, the project is aimed at improving information and data flow within the agency (directorate). Usually, the research project is designed to eliminate problems/set backs which the commonly experienced due to physical management and processing of documents (files) of respective requests made to the agency. From the above mentioned points, its objectives could be summarized into:
? Improving data and information flow (management) within the system
? Providing high quality information for the management to make relevant decision at the needed time.
? Reduction of unnecessary time wastages incurred during data processing, storage and retrieval of information.
? Making for a quicker response time.
? Linking qualified personnel to vacancies and also providing organizations with suitable applicants for vacant posts in their establishment.
? Reduction of clerical operations amongst other benefits.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT
The application of an automated employment directory and labor assignment system will make for an improved public awareness due to the fact that information processed or possessed by the agency (directorate using the this new system) would readily be liked to the internet or the ?yellow pages? as the case may be information generated can be readily passed unto the public at a faster rate as would have been the case using the existing system. In other words, rapid technological changes and improvement gave rise to a required standard for which this new has attained.
Furthermore, this new system will lead to a greater patronage from the public due to the efficiency and reliability associated with the system. This project signifies a design which serves as the best feasible alternative solution to the problem of data management and control. The new model and its software capabilities enable the new system to be implemented in any part of the world due to the portability nature of the software.
Finally, this study serves as a good reference material for researches in the field or those undertaking a similar research.
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The research method adopted in this research project is as follows:
i. Investigation and analysis of the present system: Here, the researcher studied the existing system as regards to its set objectives, its functions and managerial capabilities.
ii. Interview: Certain workers and employees at the personnel department of the National Directorate of Employment were interviewed; necessary information and raw data were both collected and noted. Such information played a great role in the development of the new system.
iii. Observation: The processes and procedures involved in data and information flow in the agency were observed. Also, their relationship with the intended results were observed, compared and carefully noted.
iv. System development: The new system was developed firstly by carefully analyzing the problems evident in the existing system, proffering solutions and therefore, the researcher went ahead to design a model for the new system. Subsequently, the developed system was tested accordingly with data for which required solution/results were previously achieved using the manual system of operation. Both results were compared and it was found that the solutions were similar but with the new solution, having me the target with a higher degree of accuracy, at a quicker response time, improved management control and also at a reduced cost.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
This research work is dedicated to bridging the gap between the unemployed (job applicants) and prospective employers. It is purely limited to the use of an employment directory to link applicants to various vacancies. This project will only cover the area of using the directory database to provide the necessary information required by an organization to employ qualified individuals into positions needed to be filled. After the analysis of the existing system, some areas were noted for improvement while some sensitive areas demanded conversion, which could best be handled by a computer method i.e. automation.
It must be noted however, that this project or model does create job opportunities by design but provides an easy and more efficient access to information needed for smooth employment delivery and labor assignment it is therefore hoped that future researchers will carry out further work on this subject.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT
There were certain constraints encountered while the research for this project was being carried out. Listed below are some of the prominent ones. They are:
Financial constraints: Limited source of funds as regards the high rate of transportation culminated in the choice of the National directorate of Employment as case study.
Time: The time needed to travel outside the school environment to other places (distant places in particular) in search for the required data was limited; this also led to the choice of N.D.E Owerri as case study.
Privacy of data: Due to the sensitive nature of certain information, the researcher was not able to get certain personal information about some individuals from the agency.
Staff attitude: Some members of staff of the agency were not readily helpful when approached for specific information. This was another source of hindrance to the completion of the project.
Nevertheless, as there were hindrances and limitations arising from different quarters, the researcher was able together all the necessary information required for the completion of this project. | CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The greatest renovation that has taken place in the twenty centuries is in the core of information technology.
This is currently made possible by the introduction of the e-mail (ten e-mail platform) which has been observed in the field of communication to be increasingly inseparable from communication.
This linkage is often referred to as convergence is risen which is driven by technology and amplified by business trends, the business technology foster growth in network system that uses e-mail links to connect sub-soldiery system (nodes) which may send, receive, direct and redirect information to and fro, sender and receiver.
Talking of the internet e-mail couple of years ago would have sound-link a fair table but today the internet is pervasive in almost every field of human and earn our changing the fundamentals of how they are conducted nation-wide as well as international business.
Few years of existence, the internet ten e-mail platform has shown that it can silver the long sought after goal of electronic commerce.
This technology facilitate link ten e-mail with rainbow.net LTD web and services delivery as well as in reducing barriers to entry into information world.
Internet e-mail allows clients of ten user transaction relationship, which would have taken long distance travel or movement of information with the attendant, with the on-line e-mail information at your convenience at home and at any time, e-mail user can transact business and contact other people.
This new system will provide e-mail address to ten users.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
E-mail as a business communication mechanism has many inherent flaws;
? It?s totally insecure
Confidential business document sent over e-mail are not confidential. This document can be read both inside and outside of your organization.
? It?s too open
Mailboxes are filled with junk mail, and the situation is getting worse every month. Due to the inherent general delivery design of e-mail, this problem cannot be prevented, even with the best designed e-mail filters.
? E-mail can be dangerous
Computer virus are most commonly delivered through e-mail because there is no certification mechanism for e-mail senders, in Microsoft outlook, just clicking on an e-mail can initiate a new virus.
? Delivery is not guaranteed
Just like postal mail, e-mail may be delivered, or maybe not The recent example include: Harvard acceptance letter that were deleted by AOL, thinking they were junk mail
? It lacks ubiquitous Access
It is problematic for most users to access their e-mail from all locations, such as at home or while on the road. This is the primary reason why web-based e-mail became popular.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are stated below:
i. To investigate the lack of the current automates system in term of modern technology appliances that support internet e-mail services and suggest ways of updating them.
ii. To design a friendly web-site services provided by the ten e-mail platform
iii. To improve in the speed effectiveness, efficiency and conferences in information technology (IT).
iv. To carry out a feasibility study on the organization for the purpose of installing an online e-mail.
v. To design and assign computer software to solve the problem.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This project work - ten e-mail user will enhance secured validation process which allow user or customer?s to operate on ten different e-mail account on a single application and able to send mail and receive mail from any of the account at a time.
It makes customer to access their bank account in order to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances as well as purchase cell phone, prepaid credit without entering into their banking hall.
1.5 SCOPE AND DELIMINATION OF THE STUDY
The study focuses on design and assignation of ten user e-mail platform, It will be of immense use to the organization, the administration and the user?s in realizing the long sought goal of speed, efficiency, effectiveness and convenience .
The program will take care of those factors that mitigated against the smooth running operation of the organization using the online e-mail.
Better still scholars who intend to carry out subsequent research could have this as base from where improvement could be made.
1.6 DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS
ANALYSIS: is the process of breaking a complex topic or substances into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.
CD ROM: is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data. ? compact disc read- only- memory.
COMPUTER: it is an electronic devices that accept data and process it into a useful information.
COMPUTER-BASED: is any course of instruction whose primary means of delivery is a computer.
DATABASE: database is a collection of data which can be treated as a unit.
E-BANKING: E-banking is an electronic payment system that enable customer of a financial institution to conduct financial transaction on a website operated by the institution such as retail bank, virtual bank, credit union or building society.
E-MAIL: Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as e-mail is a method of exchanging digital messages from one author to one or more recipient.
E-MAIL ADDRESS: it identifies an e-mail box to which e-mail messages are delivered.
FILE: file is a collection of related records.
INTERNET: the internet is a global system of interconnected computer network that use the standard internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billon devices worldwide.
LAN: Local area network is a computer network that connects computer within a limited area such as home, school, office building.
MAN: Metropolitan area network is a computer network larger than a local area network covering an area of a few city blocks to the area of an entire city, possibly also including the surrounding area.
NETWORK: A network terminal is a device which ends a telecommunication link and is the point at which a signal enters or leaves a network.
ONLINE: A state of connectivity.
PASSWORD: is a word or string of characters used for user authentication to prove identity or access approval to gain access to a resource.
PIN: personal identification number is a numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system.
PROCESS: is an instance of a computer program that is being executed.
PROGRAM: program is a sequence of instruction written to perform a specified task with a computer.
REAL- TIME: real time is a level of computer responsiveness that user senses as sufficient immediately or that enables the computer to keep up with some external process.
SOFTWARE: it is a set of program that governs the operation of a computer system and makes the hardware run.
TELEMETRIC: is the highly automated communication process by which measurement are made and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible point and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring .
VIRTUAL WORD: is a computer-based simulated environment.
WAN: wide area network is a network that covers a broad area.
WEB: is a system of interlinked hypertext document that are accessed via the internet | CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is an indispensable system on which the life of everyone is built and as well stimulates the entire life application. It could be referred to as a process designed for the acquisition and dissemination of skills and knowledge to the posterity of the nation. The identified system tends to be implemented in diverse dimensions basically in schools.
For the past ten years, it has been discovered that schools are not what they were as attributed to the wide ranging changes which have occurred and brought new pressure associated with increased size. On the account of this, an increasing complexity of organization has been instigated so that stresses and anxieties of choice have been added to those of dimension.
The competent educational administration constitute the intensity of education and its impediments mount a disturbing diffusion and obscuring of purpose and all these changes concede with a major recruiting of curriculum and methodology. In most cases, the manual method adopted in monitoring some school activities undermine other roles like enrolment of students, computation of student?s result, examination supervision and making of examination scripts.
With regard to the discrepancies created by the manual techniques of school administration, the school management board should devise a competitive means of achieving their set objective in a computerized educational administrative information system.
1.2 AIMS/OBJECTIVES
The basic aim of the study is to provide a lasting solution to the problems emanated from the manual means of school management. They are as follows:
- To produce a system which tends to increase the predictability of the organization by assessing critically its obsolescence in relation to fresh challenges.
- To produce a reliable system that would coordinate most of the school activities.
- To produce a flexible and comprehensive system that would meet up with the future development in the school.
- To design and develop a computerized system that would handle the execution of school activities most especially post-primary schools so as to liquidate all the problems identified with the existing system.
1.2.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The sudden increase in the number of students enroll in each school has transcended the manipulation of the existing system used by the school administrators and this prompted a lot of problems which encompass the inaccurate computation of students result by the staffs on the account of non-availability of adequate number of computer systems for the computation. This is a very ugly development. Also, it was very complicated to observe when the enrolment of students should cease since there was no efficient system for the estimation of enrolment ratio to give a signal when the enrolment tends to move beyond the projection. All these and more are encountered due to the debilitation of the prevailing system used. It was very difficult to point out students who cheat in the course of examination as attributed to the non-standard measure used in the supervision of the examination. The staff complained seriously on the unnecessary stress encountered while marking the examination answer scripts manually.
1.3 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
The implementation of this computerized system would definitely stimulate the school standard. This would as well help the management to ease the burden on the staff which would be on the benefit of students and staffs. It is also a basic study for research and for the entire populace and future researchers.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study covered the substantive solution to the problems generated by the existing system used in the school administration and management. However, the case study is post-primary school management board (PPSMB) Enugu.
1.5 METHODOLOGY
On account of time, she adopted only 2 procedures of capturing data for the study. Those 2 procedures encompass.
A) INTERVIEW METHOD:- During the interview conducted in the post-primary school management board. The research interviewed the director of school supervisor on the nature of duty conducted in schools she had supervised with special reference to the examination coordination and supervision, enrolment ratio for the admission of students in school. The director of administration department was equally interrogated based on the obligation and dereliction of the management board towards the growth of education observed in schools with little assistance from some of the staffs. The response to the questions enabled the researcher to take off.
B) REFERENCES TO WRITTEN DOCUMENT: - In spite of the interview took place in the PPSMB, the researcher extended her collection of data to the written document as a result of inadequacy from the responsiveness of the interview. The researcher had to visit Enugu State and National Library for more information and references from already written text on educational administration varying more emphasis on school administration and management. The information from this specified method made the successful completion of this study possible. |
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