Students’ Attendance Monitoring System for Students at Risk of Dropping Out

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Stakeholders in school are doing their best to key students in school with the end in mind of seeing them progress to another grade level. One hindering factor in realizing this goal is the incidence of absenteeism in class that greatly contributes to a high rate of dropping out. Hence, the school has identified students and tagged the as SARDOs' or Students at Risk of Dropping Out. in an attempt to help monitor the SARDOs' the researchers investigated the use of a computer program designed to monitor the attendance of SARDOs' and possibly lower the incidences of their absenteeism.

METHODS

A computer application named "SAMS" was programmed such that it enables the intended users to access the attendance records of attendance in the morning and the afternoon. The number of absences of SARDOs is determined before engaging them in the use of the program for a grading period. Then they were monitored for 10 weeks using the program. The number of absences incurred during the testing period is likewise noted. Then a comparison between the no. of absences of SARDOs before and after responses to the computer application was determined.

RESULTS

Results of the 10 trials on accuracy, effectiveness, functionality, punctuality, and efficiency reveal the following results: sensors-10 out of 10 and programming of the device-10 out of 10.

DISCUSSIONS

Results show the success rate of 100% in all components of the program management system. This is due to the fact that during programming, efforts were applied to ensure a 100% success rate for each part of the program.