ABSTRACT
Performance evaluation of students in institution is a
necessity and this is done based on the Grading system adopted by a school.
Computation of Grade point average (GPA) is done manually and this is time
consuming and tedious.
This
project views the present system of computing GPA and attempts to convert the
process from the manual one into a computerized one in order to reduce time
spent in computing students GPA especially in the final year. Microsoft Visual
BASIC programming language was used because of its powerful features.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Evaluation is the
systematic determination of merit, worth and significance of something or
someone. Evaluation often is used to characterize and examine subjects of
interest in a wide range of human enterprise including the Arts, business,
Computer Science, criminal justice, foundation and non-profit organizations,
government and other human services.
Performance
Evaluation is a necessity for organizations, institutions and even individuals
due to the fact that it helps them to know how they are faring and to know if
there is any need for improvement. This research work is going focus on
performance evaluation of students. In schools students are evaluated and their
result is compared based on the Grading system adopted by a particular school.
Some schools adopt the 4-point Grading system while others operate on the
5-point Grading system for evaluating student performance and computing their
Grade Point Average (GPA). However, most schools use the conventional (manual)
system for computing the GPA of students. There have been numerous problems
associated with the conventional system of computation.
1.2
STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
The
following are the problems encountered with the use of conventional systems,
1.
Manual computation of Grade point average
2.
The work involved in the calculation of GPA
is tedious especially when handling a large class.
3.
A lot of time is exhausted and wasted in the
process of computing while ensuring accuracy.
4.
Most students cannot calculation their GPA.
1.3
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objective of this
study is to develop an automated student performance evaluation system that
will be able to eliminate the problems associated with the conventional system
for evaluating and computing grade point average (GPA) of students. The study
seek to design a prototype system for evaluating student performance using
Visual Basic programming language that will provide facilities that will,
1.
Compute students GPA faster and accurately
2.
Compute the GPA at various levels
3.
Compute the cumulative GPA (CGPA)
4.
State the class of Honours a student falls
into
5.
Enable students to be able to compute their
GPA easily
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THESTUDY
The importance of this study is to be able to
evaluate student’s performance so as to save the student, school or Faculty
officer from the stress of computing student performance manually which waste a
lot of time during the process of
computing student result to determine their performance at the end of
each semester or session
1.5
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study centers on
the computation of GPA for students of the Department of Computer Science in
the Faculty of Physical Science in the University of Benin. This is due to time
constrained and coupled with the fact that this research work is done alongside
with academic work.
1.6
DEFINATION OF TERMS
Prototype: It is the first or
original model from which others are copied
Evaluation: It involves assessing the strengths and weakness of programs, polices,
personnel products and organizations to improve their effectiveness
Student: A person engaged in
study, one who is devoted to learning; a learner, a pupil, a scholar,
especially one who attends a school or who seeks knowledge from professional
teacher or from books; as the students of an academy, a college or a university
like a medical student, research student etc.
Grade point average: The average obtained by dividing
the total number of grade points earned by the total number of credits attempt
Performance: It is the act of performing; the carrying into execution or action,
achievement, accomplishment, representation by action, as the performance of an
undertaking of a duty
Grading: It is evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
In
carrying out this research, I was faced with some limiting constrains.
Designing a system software that can provide all the numerous facilities as
enlisted in the objectives of the study is quite a complex task especially with
the fact that one is not quite efficient or skillful in the programming
language of implementation and learning the language along side with the
academic work, considering the short time allocated for the research work is
not an easy task. This has limited the research work to the scope specified in
the previous section above.
In
addition, getting facts relevant to the study from the faculty of applied
science, University of Benin, Benin City was quite difficult to come by.
Personnel contacted were quite reluctant to giving out some vital facts
required about the grading system of students in the faculty.
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