Design and implementation of student evaluation program (a case study of daughters of divine love juniorate)

Project Abstract

<p> Student achievement is profoundly influenced by the evaluation<br>practice used by teachers in the classroom. Research in education<br>has consistently shown achievement monitoring and feedback to be<br>extremely important factors in the teaching learning process. This<br>project is designed with the help of computer base program that<br>has five sub systems the file sub system that helps the<br>administrator to change their password and also register new<br>students, compute result sub system which is where all the student<br>results are recorded and save to data base, and report sub system,<br>where students profile, results and the number of students in the<br>school can be viewed. All this helps classroom teachers with direct<br>support to classroom instruction with information on good<br>classroom evaluation practices with daughters of divine love<br>juniorate secondary school as a case study. This program was<br>achieved with the help of visual basic 6.0 and Microsoft access<br>database.<br>14 <br></p>

Project Overview

<p> </p><p>INTRODUCTION<br>1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY<br>Evaluation of student achievement is a crucial and pervasive issue of<br>concern in every classroom. Traditional evaluation activities were used to<br>certify or promote students. Currently, evaluation is recognized, as a<br>comprehensive process not just something that occurs only at the end of<br>some learning episode, it is an integral part of the teaching learning process.<br>Evaluation activities provide information for the identification of student’s<br>performances, a basis for the assessment of teaching strategies and data for<br>important decision regarding corrective or enrichment activities.<br>If a classroom is to function effectively, a well planned system of evaluation<br>is essential. Without such plan, it will be difficult to determine the ability of<br>students and to decide which methods of instruction are most appropriate for<br>a particular class or group of students.<br>School Structure<br>Daughters of divine love juniorate school is a female private school, it was<br>founded in 1969 at Ihiala in Anambra state, by the late Bishop Godsfrey<br>Mary Paul Okonye, then Bishop of port Harcourt. The number of students<br>that were enrolled in 1969 is seven with about four members of the staff,<br>including the principal.<br>15<br>The school was later moved to Isienu Nsuka in the 1976, the second campus<br>of the junior ate was started in Enugu which is the head quarters of the<br>congregation with its first principal as Sr .M. Chizoba Eke.The junior ate<br>school made its first external examination in the year 1972. Daughters of<br>divine love comprise both the junior secondary and the senior secondary<br>sections and runs a six year formal education programme. Each of the 6<br>classes is made up of either 2 or 3 or 4 streams depending on the size of the<br>class. Because of the nature of the school which informs it’s home:<br>Daughters of divine love junior ate, equal attention, more or less, is giving to<br>both the academic and character formation of the students.<br>Administration and Staff<br>The administrative structure of the school comprises the principal, two vice<br>principal (Academic &amp; Administration, School Bursar, Matron, Dean of<br>Studies, Heads of Department, Form Teachers and other teachers. The<br>tutorial staff strength of the school is forty – three permanent teachers and<br>seven part-time teachers. These teachers are qualified. The non academic<br>staff section comprises about thirty workers mainly non-professionals. The<br>motto of the school is “FAITH AND LOVE”<br>1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM<br>Education is concerned with the integral formation of students. Hence, it<br>should be directed toward their physical emotion, social, moral, intellectual<br>and spiritual development.<br>16<br>Any system of evaluation has to be based on who students are and how they<br>know and act as learners. The following principles of evaluation should be<br>evident from the philosophy. These are:<br>1 Evaluation takes it direction from a definition education which stated<br>in it’s broadcast since is to enable student to realize their potentials as<br>human beings<br>2 Evaluations involve teacher’s judgment.<br>3 Evaluation is an integral part of the teaching learning process.<br>4 Students and education program.<br>5 Students should play an active role in their evaluation.<br>6 Evaluation procedure should take into consideration individual<br>difference among students.<br>7 Evaluation procedure is important for the guidance of individual<br>students.<br>However, it should be noted that the main purpose of evaluation is to<br>determine the extent to which student have archived the intended outcome of<br>the education program. There evaluation must be student centered where it<br>process and subsequent decisions reflect a genuine concern for the interest of<br>each student.<br>17<br>1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT<br>The main aim of this project is to provide an information tracking system<br>along with evaluation system for evaluating students based on written<br>examination, thus providing the positions for every student and to eradicate<br>the problems uncounted in education environment that are timed consuming<br>in the file system.<br>The design system holds the following features over the previous manual<br>system.<br>1. Enhanced easy retrieval and access to records.<br>2. Highly secured student results.<br>3. Accuracy of result processing<br>4. Accurate report for decision making by the school management.<br>1.4 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY<br>This project will provide basis for developing a planned system of<br>evaluation for the school academic staffs.<br>1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY<br>This project is centered on student academic performance for daughters of<br>divine love juniorate secondary school. This project was implemented to<br>show the scores and total average of each student at the end of academic<br>year, and also help to keep proper record of student data. This helps the<br>18<br>teachers to know the students that are not performing well, so that they can<br>help them to improve in the subjects they are lagging behind.<br>1.6 LIMITATIONS<br>The result can be altered by any individual that has access to the software.<br>No individual can be able to access the result without the aid of the teacher<br>of that particular class.<br>1.7 PROJECT REPORT ORGANIZATION<br>The project has different chapters, from one to five which will explain the<br>various aspects of the system.<br>The first chapter gives an introduction of the project along with the project<br>aims and objectives, scope and limitations of the study.<br>Chapter two is an overview of the literature review.<br>Chapter three is the details of the system analysis and design and the major<br>components used.<br>Chapter four deals with the implementation and the testing. This chapter<br>contains the major world of the project.<br>Chapter five recommendations and conclusion of the project work on<br>student Evolution.</p><div><div></div></div><br> <br><p></p>