INTRODUCTION

1.10 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Schools organizations and companies are set up to achieve specific objectives or goals.

However to achieve the set objectives tasks and targets must be set established and

performances properly monitored for each player in the specific industry. Needless to say

that the objectives of every secondary school is to provide an educational transition

period between primary school and tertiary institution with core introduction to science

and arts on an intermediary level; this however has formed a foundation for education on

a long run.

Student performance monitoring and evaluation is an imperative aspect of school

management as it forms a basis for the school’s administration to effectively and

efficiently monitor each and every student’s performance in various schools’ academic

curriculums on a continuous basis. It is imperative to state categorically here that most

situations that involves students poor performances in examinations can be traced to the

school’s inability to trace precisely aspects of the schools’ curriculum were each

individual students needs to improve on. Consequently this research work seeks to study

Kaduna Polytechnic Demonstration Secondary School’s curriculum student’s

examination compilation processes which will further aid in the design and

implementation of a computer based student performance monitoring system for the

school.

1.11 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CASE STUDY

Kaduna polytechnic Demonstration Secondary School was established on Monday 17th

November 1997. It is co-educational and its main objective is to give sound and

meaningful education not only to the children of Kaduna Polytechnic Staff but also to

those of the immediate community. The school started with 112 Students and 8 teaching

staff. Today the students’ population has grown over 1000 and 40 teaching staff.

The subject offered at the junior secondary school level includes; English language

Mathematics Integrated Science Social Studies Business Studies Agricultural science

Home Economics Physical and Health Education Introductory Technology French Fine

Art Arabic Hausa Religious Studies ( Islamic and Christian) and Computer Science.

The subject offered at the senior secondary school level include; English language

Mathematics Biology Physics Chemistry Further Mathematics Commerce

Accounting Government Food and Nutrition Economics Geography Hausa History

Literature in English and Technical Drawing. The school has recorded an impressive

performance at both junior school certificate examination (JSCE) and senior school

certificate Examination (SSCE)

1.12 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Student performance evaluation in most Nigerian institution has remained an imperative

concern in the management of secondary schools; this is as a result of the unavailability

of any automated performance evaluation system to carry out the process electronically.

With the vast student population in the school the evaluation of student performance

cannot be effectively achieved unless a computer based system is introduced in this

effect.

1.13 MOTIVATION FOR THE STUDY

i. This research work is an attempt to provide a computerized solution to the impending

problem of poor student performance and the managements’ inability to effectively

identify those areas where individual students need to improve on.

ii. Secondly this research work is motivated by the need to encourage a vast application

of computer technology in performing most of the school’s administrations and

managerial tasks.

1.14 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The Aim of this research work is to design code test and implement a student

performance monitoring system for Kaduna Polytechnic Demonstration Secondary

School.

The objectives of this research are listed below: -

i. To identify the fundamental problems associated with the school’s performance and

evaluation procedures.

ii. To design a computer based system which will be used to perform the student

performance evaluations on a routine basis with a capable high-end database system

to manage the records.

iii. To implement the software system on the school’s computer system platform with

adequate training and proper implementation procedures which will enable the

management perform an effective student performance evaluation.

1.15 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of the research to the school can be seen as follows: -

i. The project will enable effective compilations of the student’s results on a term basis.

ii. The project will enable the management grade efficiently the students results and

determine electronically their terms performances.

iii. The system will presents an efficient result generation process which will enable

effective decision making process on all levels.

iv. The system will provide each student with a detailed student performance report

which will be given to parents or guardians on a routine basis.

v. Lastly the project will provide the school’s management with a sublime computer

based system for the students’ performance and evaluation process.

1.16 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In carrying out the design procedure and the overall research methodology of this

research work the following steps will be taken:

i. Consulting the result administrator to get the format and nature of collated and

compiled results.

ii. Interviewing staff on various levels in the school to sample various opinions ideas

and contributions on the task ahead.

iii. Designing a program flow analysis for how the program is to be written.

iv. Writing the program codes to execute the different stages and tasks of the software

using Microsoft Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Access 2007.

1.17 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

The scope of the research work is to design a system which will be used for the purpose

of student academic performance evaluations; the system will collate the students’ terms

examination performances and evaluate the overall performance while producing an

accurate reporting module and output.

1.18 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The research under study attempts to provide a robust system solution for performing a

flexible yet computerized performance evaluation of students academic performance at

the secondary school level comprising of both Junior secondary and Senior secondary; in

perspective the project will not be used to compute examination processing as it will be

solely used to process cumulative scores and also grades.