CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Evaluation of student achievement is a crucial and pervasive issue of

concern in every classroom. Traditional evaluation activities were used to

certify or promote students. Currently evaluation is recognized as a

comprehensive process not just something that occurs only at the end of

some learning episode it is an integral part of the teaching learning process.

Evaluation activities provide information for the identification of student’s

performances a basis for the assessment of teaching strategies and data for

important decision regarding corrective or enrichment activities.

If a classroom is to function effectively a well planned system of evaluation

is essential. Without such plan it will be difficult to determine the ability of

students and to decide which methods of instruction are most appropriate for

a particular class or group of students.

School Structure

Daughters of divine love juniorate school is a female private school it was

founded in 1969 at Ihiala in Anambra state by the late Bishop Godsfrey

Mary Paul Okonye then Bishop of port Harcourt. The number of students

that were enrolled in 1969 is seven with about four members of the staff

including the principal.

The school was later moved to Isienu Nsuka in the 1976 the second campus

of the junior ate was started in Enugu which is the head quarters of the

congregation with its first principal as Sr .M. Chizoba Eke.The junior ate

school made its first external examination in the year 1972. Daughters of

divine love comprise both the junior secondary and the senior secondary

sections and runs a six year formal education programme. Each of the 6

classes is made up of either 2 or 3 or 4 streams depending on the size of the

class. Because of the nature of the school which informs it’s home:

Daughters of divine love junior ate equal attention more or less is giving to

both the academic and character formation of the students.

Administration and Staff

The administrative structure of the school comprises the principal two vice

principal (Academic & Administration School Bursar Matron Dean of

Studies Heads of Department Form Teachers and other teachers. The

tutorial staff strength of the school is forty – three permanent teachers and

seven part-time teachers. These teachers are qualified. The non academic

staff section comprises about thirty workers mainly non-professionals. The

motto of the school is “FAITH AND LOVE”

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Education is concerned with the integral formation of students. Hence it

should be directed toward their physical emotion social moral intellectual

and spiritual development.

Any system of evaluation has to be based on who students are and how they

know and act as learners. The following principles of evaluation should be

evident from the philosophy. These are:

1 Evaluation takes it direction from a definition education which stated

in it’s broadcast since is to enable student to realize their potentials as

human beings

2 Evaluations involve teacher’s judgment.

3 Evaluation is an integral part of the teaching learning process.

4 Students and education program.

5 Students should play an active role in their evaluation.

6 Evaluation procedure should take into consideration individual

difference among students.

7 Evaluation procedure is important for the guidance of individual

students.

However it should be noted that the main purpose of evaluation is to

determine the extent to which student have archived the intended outcome of

the education program. There evaluation must be student centered where it

process and subsequent decisions reflect a genuine concern for the interest of

each student.

1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The main aim of this project is to provide an information tracking system

along with evaluation system for evaluating students based on written

examination thus providing the positions for every student and to eradicate

the problems uncounted in education environment that are timed consuming

in the file system.

The design system holds the following features over the previous manual

system.

1. Enhanced easy retrieval and access to records.

2. Highly secured student results.

3. Accuracy of result processing

4. Accurate report for decision making by the school management.

1.4 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

This project will provide basis for developing a planned system of

evaluation for the school academic staffs.

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project is centered on student academic performance for daughters of

divine love juniorate secondary school. This project was implemented to

show the scores and total average of each student at the end of academic

year and also help to keep proper record of student data. This helps the

teachers to know the students that are not performing well so that they can

help them to improve in the subjects they are lagging behind.

1.6 LIMITATIONS

The result can be altered by any individual that has access to the software.

No individual can be able to access the result without the aid of the teacher

of that particular class.

1.7 PROJECT REPORT ORGANIZATION

The project has different chapters from one to five which will explain the

various aspects of the system.

The first chapter gives an introduction of the project along with the project

aims and objectives scope and limitations of the study.