A SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RESULTS PROCESSING
Eyo O. Ukem, Francis A. Ofoegbu · 2012
The end-of-course grades assigned by lecturers are intended to convey the level of achievement of each student in the class. These grades are used to make a multitude of decisions. Unless a sufficiently ac curate and efficient method is used for the grading, the g rades are apt to convey misinformation and lead the decision-maker astray. In itself, the processing of results is found to be rather tedious, especially when carried out manually, and when the number of students is large. It is time-consuming and error prone. The process, however, becomes a lot easier and much more accurate when carried out with a computer running a suitable software application. To find a sufficie ntly fast and accurate method of carrying out this processing is a problem that is both challenging an d interesting. In this work, a computer software application was developed to facilitate the automat ed processing of the results. The software was deve loped in Java programming language in the form of a datab ase, employing MYSQL Relational Database Management System. The developed software performed well and produced expected results on completion. With it, it was possible to compute Gra de Point Average and Cumulative Grade Point Average for each student based on examination scores entere d.