Web-Based Student Profiling and Academic Performance Monitoring System: A Tool to an Effective Academic Advising

Abstract

Student profiling is a career-long procedure where every students develop and maintain a documentary record of their learning experiences. Moreover, it is a way of taking responsibility of the work and managing of activities that will help students to succeed academically and to lay the foundation of their future career. Profiling involves documentation of students’ achievement and academic success, identify their strengths and weaknesses and to monitor and improve their academic performance. On the other hand, academic advising is the process where students are being guided by an assigned faculty for academic program planning and course selection. The study aims to develop a web-based system that will help students to build personal profile or portfolio that will record their academic performance along with their skills acquired and the experiences that they gained during their stay in the University. This system will also help Program Chairs and Associate Deans in the aspect of academic advising. Specifically the study has the following objectives: (1) to determine the level of the respondents on the developed system in terms of usability, functionality and reliability, and (2) to determine the level of satisfaction of the respondents on the developed system in terms of student profiling, academic performance monitoring and communication. After the analysis and interpretation of gathered data, the following finding are established. Based on the evaluation, the respondents agreed that the developed system is easy to use, reliable and performs the functionality needed by the students, Program Chairs and Associate Deans. Furthermore, respondents are satisfied with the features of the system in terms of student profiling, academic performance monitoring and communication. Using the developed system will help Program Chairs and students to improve and monitor academic performance, and to provide an easy and reliable way of academic advising. Moreover, the system will also improve the communication process between the students and Programs Chairs because of the integration of SMS notification.