ISSN 2348-1196 (print) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research ISSN 2348-120X (online) Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp: (111-120), Month: January - March 2020, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
A Prototype Interactive Result Checker System: A Case Study of Nigeria Polytechnic System Anthony N. Okumbor 1, Charles Todo 2 1
Department of Computer Science, 2 Department of Statistics 12
Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara Delta State, Nigeria Aokumbor@yahoo.com
Abstract: The main object of information system is to provide information to its users that enable decision making process. The essence of this work is the design of an efficient computerized system that replace the manual result processing, that is prone to a lot of paper works and errors. Background to the information processing was given in the light of courses, credit units, manual processing of result and point grading system as it relates to Polytechnic tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The challenges with the manual result processing were identified, and a prototype software application was developed as insight into how future feature solution will look like. The prototype demo was developed by employing the use of Visual Studio for the front end and MySQL relational database for the backend. The solution serves as data repository that would enable the creation of design for customize solution for respective institution. Keywords: CGPA; GPA; Result; Prototype; Data; Information.
I. INTRODUCTION One of the bane of policy formulation and management of education system in Nigeria is timely and inaccurate data. To obtain accurate data on admission, examination organising bodies; nonteaching; teaching staff and even facilities appears to be a difficult task for the institutions managers. This lack of adequate cognitive development in the areas of data collection; analysis and storage seem to be marred by other socio-politico-economic factors such as fraud; politics of national resource allocation and social apathy; thus; the need to develop an electronic result management system which will serve as an information system. The main object of an information system is to provide information to its users. An information system that evaluates, analyzes, and processes an organization's data to produce meaningful and useful information based on which the management can take right decisions to ensure future growth of the organization [1]. However, [2] hinted that Information System (IS) can be any organized combination of hardware, software, communications networks, data resources, people, policies and procedures that stores, retrieves, transforms and disseminates information in an organization. Hence, an MIS provides information in the form of predefined reports that support the decision-making processes of the managerial users. In an academic community, the automated result is intended to generate reports about students' results to guide the day-to-day decisions of the school management in the maintenance of student status and awarding of diplomas. In this paper a prototype system is proposed that will serve as guide to development of information system. According to [3], Software prototyping is the process of creating an incomplete model of the future full-featured software program, which can be used to let the users have a first idea of the completed program or allow the clients to evaluate the program. This has several advantages such as: the software designer and implementer can obtain feedback from the users early in the project. The client and the contractor can compare if the software made matches the software specification to which the software program is built. It also allows the software engineer some insight into the accuracy of initial project estimate and whether the deadlines and milestones proposed can be successfully met. In this work a prototype system is proposed that will give insight into how the future
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