Web-Based Student Selection System

WEB-BASED O’LEVEL STUDENTS’ SELECTION SYSTEM.

By

BIT 11-184

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

A Concept Paper submitted to the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology

for the Study Leading to a Project Proposal in Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of

Information Technology of Makerere University.

Supervisor

Hawa Nyende

Department of Information Systems

School of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University

hnyende@cit.mak.ac.ug, Tel: +256-41-540628, Fax: +256-41-540620

March, 2011.

  1. Introduction

      The selection process for primary students wishing to join secondary schools is manual and time consuming for head-teachers given the ever growing numbers of pupils.

2.0 Background to the Problem

      For some time now, student selection for senior one has been manually done based on the choices they make.
      After the release of the examination results, Head teachers from the schools that the pupils anticipate to join are later called upon to do pupil selection based on the school’s criteria. Head teachers are provided with the list of pupils who applied to the respective schools and check for students who meet their selection criteria.
      This project will provide an efficient web-based solution to the existing manual selection process which has proven to be resource wasting.
      With this solution, records and relevant information related to pupils and the school for their choices will be done by a central computerized system.
3.0 Problem Statement

      The current process of selecting senior one students is time-consuming and yet must be undertaken within seven days. The lengthy process of selecting senior one students poses a challenge of ensuring that not any one applicant who meets all the necessary requirements misses an opportunity to join their school preference....