School Event Attendance with Biometrics and Barcode Technology

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Attendance record plays a significant role in the academic achievement of school students. Insufficient performance in school attendance leads to least performance in academic achievement. A survey has been conducted in New York City public schools to study the role of school attendance as a mediator in relationship between student’s grades in school test. At the end of the study, they found that attendance as the full mediator for grades in the school tests. By knowing these facts, attendance of a student should be given higher priority regardless of any schools categories. However, attendance keeping process becomes tedious due to increased number of students in schools now days. Teachers have to spend lot of time in calculating the class attendance and to produce daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports. Automated attendance record keeping tools needed by schools authority to keep track student’s attendance and to generate all the report required. Based on the study we have identified that each class teacher will be provided with attendance book. Teacher call students name one by one and mark their attendance in the attendance sheet.

Attendance record is crucial and critical in determining the student academic performance. A school/university must have a School Attendance Monitoring System with Biometrics and Barcode technology for them (those who are in authority) to be able to monitor not only the student’s performance, but also if the students are attending the school or not and of course for the security, an assurance that only the registered students are entering the school. This paper aim to discover the appropriate way to manage the attendance using computer aided tools in Cavite State University, Bacoor City Campus. Attendance is very important in every student, a single absent is big difference in performance in the school. Mostly students of Cavite State University, Bacoor City Campus, are prone to absences, it is because of...