Investigating Student’s Acceptance of E-Exam System in Federal University ( Case Study Federal University Gashua, FUGA)
Chapter One
Objective of the study
Objectives of the study are;
- To ascertain whether the e-exam system is the best way to assess student academic ability at Federal University Gashua FUGA
- To find out student perception of the e-exam system at Federal University Gashua FUGA
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Introduction
There is a growing body of research focused on developing better ways to manage e-exams systems and e-learning systems. Some of these researches focused on various sections of the system and these includes: Schramm (2008) looked at a e-learning web based system that could simply offer and grade mathematical questions with infinite patience. Therefore it needs the capability for in and output of mathematical formulas, the dynamic generation of plots and the generation of random expressions and numbers. Al-Bayati and Hussein (2008) presents an applied Generic Software of multiple kinds of e-exam package; this package of e-exam is oriented to Hearing Impaired (HI) persons. Therefore the exam material of this package is translated into language of HI persons like sign language and finger spelling. The idea of the Generic software is to present an empty templates to the teacher who would like to develop his required e-exam for the needful topic (mathematics, language, science, etc) and desired set of exam kinds (multiple choices, matching between words, fill in blanks, etc). Web-based Examination System is an effective solution for mass education evaluation (Zhenming et al, 2003). They developed a novel online examination system based on a Browser/Server framework which carries out the examination and auto-grading for objective questions and operating questions, such as programming, operating Microsoft Windows, editing Microsoft Word , Excel and PowerPoint, etc. It has been successfully applied to the distance evaluation of basic operating skills of computer science, such as the course of computer skills in Universities and the nationwide examination for the high school graduates in Zhejiang Province, China. Another paper (He, 2006) presents a web-based educational assessment system by applying Bloom’s taxonomy to evaluate student learning outcomes and teacher instructional practices in real time. The system performance is rather encouraging with experimentation in science and mathematics courses of two local high schools. Another paper proposed web based online examination system (Rashad et al, 2010). The system carries out the examination and auto-grading for students exams. The system facilitates conducting exams, collection of answers, auto marking the submissions and production of reports for the test. It supports many kinds of questions. It was used via Internet and is therefore suitable for both local and remote examination. The system could help lecturers, instructors, teachers and others who are willing to create new exams or edit existing ones as well as students participating in the exams. The system was built using. various open source technologies AJAX, PHP, HTML and MYSQL database are used in this system. An auto-grading module was generalized to enable different exam and question types. The system was tested in the Mansoura university quality assurance center. The test proved the validity of using this kind of web based systems for evaluates students in the institutions with high rate of students. An online website for tutoring and e-examination of economic course aimed to present a novel software tool can be used for online examination and tutorial application of the syllabus of economic course (EL Emary and Al Sondos, 2006). Also, among the main interests of the paper is to produce a software through it we make sure that students have studied all the concepts of economics. So, the proposed software is structured from two major modules: The first one was an online website to review and make self-test for all the material of economic course. The second part is an online examination using a large database bank of questions through it the level of students can be evaluated immediately and some statistical evaluations can be obtained.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to Investigating students acceptance of E-exam system in federal university ( case study Federal university gashua FUGA).
SOURCES OF DATA COLLECTION
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information for Investigating students acceptance of E-exam system in federal university ( case study Federal university gashua FUGA). 200 students of Federal university gashua FUGA were selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to examine Investigating students acceptance of E-exam system in federal university ( case study Federal university gashua FUGA). In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of Investigating students acceptance of E-exam system in federal university
Summary
This study was on Investigating students acceptance of E-exam system in federal university ( case study Federal university gashua FUGA). Two objectives were raised which included: To ascertain whether e-exam system is the best way to access student academic ability in Federal university gashua FUGA and to find out student perception on e-exam system in Federal university gashua FUGA. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 students of federal university gashua FUGAs. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up final year students, year 4 students, year 3 students and year 2 students were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies.
Conclusion
When fully implemented, the proposed system will definitely reduce drastically the problems mentioned above. These problems includes human interference, impersonation, bribe-taking by lecturers, invigilators and supervisors, too much paper work, examination leakages and also reduce the number of invigilators needed for invigilators. Especially, security will be more effective since the system includes biometric fingerprint authentication, picture capture and data encryption and decryption have been added to the existing design. Candidates screening is now online and real-time. The system have the tendencies of increasing computer literacy, online learning and network security awareness. The result integrity could also be enhanced if the candidates have access to instant result checking. The new system also allows the students to check the corrections at their own wish after the exams
Recommendation
Federal government should make e- exam compulsory to all universities in Nigeria for easy evaluation of academic ability of student
Government should provide facilities for easy assessment of the system
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