EXAM SUITE A CASE STUDY OF UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY MUKONO

By

MALE HENRY KENNETH S09B23/424

Department Information Technology Faculty of Science and Technology

A Project Proposal Submitted to the Faculty of Science and Technology For the Study Leading to a Project in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Science in computer science of Uganda Christian University.

Supervisor
Ms. JUSTINE MUKALERE

Department of Information Technology Faculty of Science and Technology, Uganda Christian University. October, 2011

.CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction The technology is shaping industries and changing academic models. It is argued that institutions that dont commit fully to this new world today will be left behind and only institutions that develop and implement entirely new academic models will succeed. Unlike the real world, the diversity in academics lies not in the difference in selection but in the multiplicity of methods of doing it. Its not a matter of what you do, but how you do it. Given the strong interest in technology development, I found it useful to survey the popular and professional examination setting and sitting in academic institutions. In Uganda Christian University, examinations and tests are mostly done on papers that are being submitted in to the lecturers or tutors for assessing. Some students papers get lost or their handwriting is poor for the lecturers to read. This call up for research to be done in this field so as to solve the problems associated with the manual examination sitting. 1.1 Problem Statement In Uganda Christian University, tests and exams are written on papers by students and handed in to the lectures for marking. With this system, there a lot of time spent to assess the students and some of the students papers end up missing. This calls for an examination suite application to enhance the concept of technology development and e-learning concept. 1.2 Main Objectives The purpose of this project is to come up with an application which provides live examination sitting. 1000 of people sitting in the same room or more can login and chose the paper they are do and start doing the exam. 1.3 Specific Objectives
To carry out an investigation in the field of Exam and test setting

To design a prototype of the Exam suite Application To implement the prototype design To test and validate the prototype implemented 1.4 Significances With the use of this application, y y y y You do not need to issue out answer sheets Papers take place in real time Displaying of results is done very fast Everything is done anonymously
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LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 INTRODUCTION This paper presents a literature review and classification for examination setting research.
A test or an examination (or "exam") is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs). A test may be administered orally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to have a concentration. Examinations generally fall into two categories: objective and subjective. Within objective examinations there are also several categories, such as the commonly known Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), True/False and Extended Matching variety. Subjective testing, on the other hand, is very much dependent on human intervention, views, opinion and interpretation, such as in essay writing and artistic subjects.

The exploding growth of online education activities attracts large attention from practice as well as academics of different fields. Scholars from different academic fields are interested in different research topics of online studies. Scholars of computer relative fields we paid attention to the system and technical side of examination administering applications. 2.1 Existing Systems In Uganda Christian University, lecturers do give hard give question papers and answer booklets to the students during the test period as well as examination time on which the students have to write the answers and submit in after the allocated time ends for that given paper. After the submission of papers, the lectures take them for assessing and it is within this time that most of the problems arise as some of the papers get missing and some of the students handwriting cant be understood properly. On top of that some students can claim to have done the papers tests yet they didnt do it so as to get free marks. This manual system takes time for students to know their assessment as lectures take time to mark the papers The other automated system present only takes up objective questions and this doesnt keep track of the students results to be retrieved by the supervisors. One of this is mostly applied on w3schools.com website as it is used when offering tests.

2.2 Proposed System

Computers greatly influences our educational environment. Over the last years, automatic computer examination systems have been widely used for computer-based tests. But these systems have to be based on traditional question-answer examination style. The Proposed system is an Exam Suite. This application is to hold of exam papers Examiners can add or delete an exam from the database depending on it need. 2

Examiners or lecturers will be able to retrieve answers submitted by the students Users are to create an account for themselves. Users are to have an option to select the paper they are to sit for. i.e. java, database, information security, etc. This application will be able to hold both objectives and subjective questions. With this application, the user will be able to go through their answers for the objectives before they submit them.( The Undo and Redo features allow users to easily correct mistakes). For the objective questions, users will be able to know their results there and then. For the subjective questions, users will be able to upload their answers after the paper. With this application, the user will be able to go through their answers for the objectives before they submit them. This application will have a user friendly interface This application will have a fast access to database It is associated with fewer errors.

METHODOLOGY 3.0 Introduction During the time of designing this application, I will be able to use the following process:

3.1 Requirement Investigation This will be carried out using the following data collection techniques. Observation method: I will have to use observation because by this I am be part of the current system and will be able to notice and point out the advancements that have to be implemented in this field. 3.2 System Design The prototype of the system will be designed using the following design approaches: USE CASE: I will have to use the use cases so as to show how the users will be able to interact with the application. DFD: the DFD will help in identifying how data will be following so as to execute a given tusk. ERD: I will have to use the ERD so as to help in identifying the different entities of the application. 3.3 Implementation The system design will be implemented using the following programming languages Java, java saver pages for the sever side. 3.4 System testing and Validation The system will be testing by running the prototype and finding out if it is running perfectly Validation will be done by checking whether the prototype designed is doing exactly what was intend to have running

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Appendices
Appendice A: WORKPLAN

ACTIVITIES

DURRATION Aug 2011 Sept 2011 Oct 2011 Nov 2011 Dec 2011 Jan 2012 Feb 2012 Mar 2012

Research And

Topic Title

Identification. Writing concept paper Proposal writing Requirement Gathering Requirement Analysis Designing And

Implementation Of Prototype Testing Validating Presentation, Maintenance And Change And

APPENDICE B: BUDGET
Item Printing of Questionnaires, and interview guide Transport Food, drinks (refreshments) Purchasing a laptop Modem and servicing Emergency Total 80,000/= 50,000/= 700,000 160,000/= 100,000/= 1120,000/= Cost (ushs) 30,000/=