Grading System

Lyceum – Northwestern University Tapuac District, Dagupan City S.Y. 2013-2014

Grading System for Mangatarem Catholic School

A research proposal presented to College of CICS Lyceum – Northwestern University

In partial fulfillment of the requirement in Software Engineering for the Department of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

By: Esguera, Carla A. Flores, Jinky D. Nitafan, Allyssa Jozel B.

Background of the Study

Nowadays, the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology.

First of all, absolute advantage

is that technology makes the world move faster. To support, speed of daily business interactions increasing all the time. There are many ways in which how technology is changing educating from pre-school to College, the education trend has now changed. Communications and delivery of the education has become so advanced. Right from the primary school grades to the height of graduate school, technology can be used as a powerful tool for education. Teachers, and students should take advantage of this. Grading System is a very important aspect of a school’s operation and goals. The student are graded to accurately compute the grades of the students using their calculators, whether an ordinary of scientific type. Grading System will help to improve to make faster and easier the manual grading system in every school in many ways such as in computing and analyzing the performance, talent and skills of students. It is the important record to keep even for

the longest time for the referral and credentials of the student to enter their next level of attaining their goals. It is the tract record that recognizes of one student, this maybe use for analyzing of your attitude and values. According to(http://ursinus.abroadoffice.net/Grading.html), the U.S. Grading System at the end of each semester, you will be given a grade for the quality and quantity of your work in a given class. A student’s academic standing is determined by the number of credits (classes) completed and his or her GPA. A student’s GPA is calculated by multiplying the number of units (credits) attempted in each course by the grade points earned per course. All grade point totals are added together. This sum is divided by the total number of credits, creating a final mean value.

The 4.0 Grading System Grade

Grade points per Numeric

Definition

unit

grade

A+

4.0

98.33

Outstanding Superior

A

4.0

95.00

Outstanding

A-

3.7

91.67

Extremely good work

B+

3.3

88.33

Very good work

B

3.0

85.00

Good work

B-

2.7

81.67

Quite a bit better than average

C+

2.3

78.33

Better than average

C

2.0

75.00

Average; satisfactory work

C-

1.7

71.67

Almost satisfactory

D+

1.3

68.33

Not good

D

1.0

65.00

Barely passing

D-

0.67

61.67

Passing with high risk to fail

F

0.00

45.00

Failure

A grade of “F” counts in a GPA as a 0.0 average. The class must be repeated with a passing grade in order to earn credit toward graduation. Mangatarem Institute was the old name of the school, they renamed it as Mangatarem Catholic School that was founded in 1956.Mangatarem Catholic Schooloffers programs in pre-school, elementary and secondary levels. The principal of the school was Mrs. Rita Fernandez Austria and Sr. Natividad M. Mendoza the directress who led the school. Table 1 shows the number of students in Mangatarem Catholic School. The list of the students enrolled in Mangatarem Catholic School:

Grade/Year No. of Students Grade 7

100

Grade 8

83

3rd year

145

4th year

110

All level were divided by two sections. The school has 20 employees, 3 are non-teaching and there are 17 teachers who supervise the students. They have five building in this

institution to accommodate the employees and the students.They also have 20 working computers, also they have room for the film showing, and they teach some advance topic in college in order for them to ready the students for taking up college. We choose this system for widely used of technology in education. Until today many school still using the old system type. If we create a computer-based grading system, it will be more easy and reliable work for the teachers. Many teachers today are still using the lesson plan. Because of many work of the teachers for the lesson and for the teaching, it will be less stress for them if they will used computer-based grading system. Statement of the Problems The study aims to make a computer-based grading database which can help aid the problem regarding in recording, and reporting student grades. Especially it seeks answer the following problems: 1. What are the existing processes in the Mangatarem Catholic School? 2. What are the features to include? 3. What is the acceptance level in term of CARTS? a) completeness; b) accuracy; c) reliability;

d) timeliness and; e) security? Significance of the Study The following entities are the beneficiaries of this study: Mangatarem Catholic School. This will further help to make their daily routine easier. Teachers.The system will help the teachers more efficient. Also this grading system make students data easily accessible in an accurate manner. Using the system, the teachers now can focused more in teaching and can also focused in managing programs in the school. Students. The system will help students to see their grades easily and to be benefited of having safe and secured records in the long run the system. Proponents. The study has also helped the developers to acquire knowledge regarding the operation of the school with the use of gathered information about the facts of the process involved in grading system. Implementation of the study will broaden the knowledge of the developers on how to build, design and implement a grading system. Future proponents. This research study will serve as reference of an associated study on grading system. They can get the things that they needed from this study. SCOPE OF LIMITATION

The proponents set the scope and limitation of the proposed system to have a guide in developing the system. The proposed system is computer-based. It can encode records of the students for the first grading until fourth grading. And also can encode the information of students. It can perform the computation for the grades to first grading until fourth grading. It can auto organize the arrangement of the student by default in student numbers but it can also arrange by alphabetical or grades. It can also print the record in the database.

Definition of Terms The following terms were operationally defined: Database - is an organized collection of data. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring this information. For example, modeling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way that supports finding a hotel with vacancies. Microsoft Access –also known as Microsoft Office Access, is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold separately.

Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases Microsoft Jet Database Engine - is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. A database engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection of information stored on a computer in a systematic way. The first version of Jet was developed in 1992, consisting of three modules which could be used to manipulate a database. Microsoft Visual Studio - is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms or WPF applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. MS .NET Framework - is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and provides language interoperability across several programming languages.

Printer -is a peripheral which makes a representation of an electronic document on physical media. Individual printers are designed to support local and network users at the same time. Some printers can print documents stored on memory cards or from digital cameras and scanners. Visual Basic - is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991. Microsoft intends Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development of graphical user interface applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. Windows Forms (WinForms) - is the name given to the graphical application programming interface included as a part of Microsoft .NET Framework, providing access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the extant Windows API in managed code. While it is seen as a replacement for the earlier and more complex C++ based Microsoft Foundation Class Library, it does not offer a paradigm comparable to Model– View–Controller. Some after-market and third party libraries have been created to provide this functionality. The most widely used of these is the User Interface Process Application Block,

which is released by the Microsoft patterns & practices group as a free download that includes the source code for quick start examples.