CHAPTER ONE
1.0INTRODUCTION
An admission screeningis an examination that many
educational institutions use to select students for admission. These exams may
be administered at any level of education, from primary to higher education,
although they are more common at higher levels. Online admission screening
systems are very convenient and fast. Online admission screening system has
three purposes.
1.
To allow admission screeningtakers at different places
to take the examination at the same time through the online admission screeningwebsite.
2.
Through careful planning and proper coding, enable
entrance examination, result checking and admission status on the websites.
3.
To integrate database with the program allowing
administrator easily addition of question and creation of entrance examination.
This document will propose all
features and procedures to develop the system. This document specially
containing details about objectives, scope limitation, process model, primary
requirements, team development, possible project risks, project schedule, and
finally monitoring and reporting mechanisms. Online admission screening system
is very useful for Educational Institute to prepare an exam, safe the time that
will take to check the paper and prepare mark sheets. It will help the
Institute to entrance examinationing of students and develop their skills. But
the disadvantages for this system, it takes a lot of times when you prepare the
exam at the first time for usage. And we are needs number of computers with the
same number of students. The effective use of “Online admission screening
system”, any Educational Institute or training centers can be use it to
develop their strategy for putting the exams, and for getting better results in
less time.
However the formulation of question for admission
screening is often treated with consciousness. With the developing of computer
application technology, more and more computer application software is coming
up. This application software‘s
associated to every part of
people‘s daily life, and so does the examinations. Just like other
application system, examination systems develop very fast, from simple
stand-alone system to C/S based system, and now some WEB based system. Although
there are a lot of examination systems, but there also have blanks in some
special fields. Examination Evaluation System integrated into the Multimedia
Emulation Training System of certain type equipment is designed and will be
introduced. This system can be used to help people familiar with the equipment
usage quickly which can save money and time. Now the following will analysis
and contrast the existing examination systems, and shoveling out the
improvement of our examination system. Then we will introduce some
characteristics of our system in chapter 3. And in chapter 4 we will introduce
the key technology that applied in our system. At last we make a summary on our
system and make a brief prospect on the future of the examination system.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Caritas University is a
catholic private institution established by Very Rev. FATHER EMMANUEL EDEH.
This institution was established in the year 2005 and located in Amorji-Nike
Enugu state.
Caritas University have two
venue for their examinations, Charity Square and Auditorium. Auditorium is
under roof amendment. Caritas University with over four thousand students has
four faculties presently and they include natural science, engineering,
environmental and social science. Caritas University uses the manual method of
paper and pen for entrance examinations.
Automation of the entrance
exams involves the experts reasoning process to solve the problems involve in
the manual entrance exams by using certain program validation in the program
properties to check for some criteria. Automation of admission screening involves
a set of program that manipulate encoded knowledge to solve problems in a
specialized domain that normally requires human expert.[1] Edward A. Feigenbaum
was one of the people in software based pc consultancy‘s research who decided
in the mid 1960‘s the reason why pc consultancy should be produced, the reason
was that he thought on how important it is to know how much a computer program
can know and the best way to find out would be to try constructing an
artificial expert.
In the process of looking for
an appropriate field of expertise Feigenbaum encountered Joshua Lederberg, the
noble laureate biochemist, who suggested that software for admission screeningin
various fields is to be produced together they began work on DENDRAL, the first
software Based Examination system in
1965 at Stamford university.
‗‘when you think you have you have created a program
structure capable of manipulating expert knowledge, you have to get some
knowledge into the system‖.
{2} {Joshua Lederberg}
The characteristics of this expert system
include the ability to encode knowledge in a program. It also has the
capability to draw it`s reasoning from meta-knowledge (inference) which is very
important feature of expert system. It has a high performance of helping to
solve problem of marking answers without favoritism.
1.2
CARITAS UNIVERSITY IS MADE UP OF FOUR (4) FACULTIES
NAMELY:
Engineering with the following department:
Computer, Mechanical, Chemical and
Electronics Engineering.
Environmental with the following
departments: Architecture, urban& regional planning and estate management.
Management and social science with the following department
accountancy, economics, business administration, public administration,
political science, industrial relation and personal management mass
communication marketing banking and finance.
Natural Science with the following department biochemistry computer
science
&information industrial chemistry mathematics &
statistics and microbiology &biotechnology.
In universities like caritas
they have not been able to implement an online admission screening system which
can allow student login and write their exams from any location around the
globe once they have purchase their admission screeningcard., though they have
been several anticipated work but no reliable software to back it up .i have
analyzed the situation and discover that though much effort is required to
develop and maintain this online admission screening system. I hope all
necessary tools within my reach would be reliable enough to make this software
development.