Lyceum Northwestern University

Tapuac District, Dagupan City

S.Y. 2013-2014



Grading System for Mangatarem Catholic School



A research proposal presented to
College of CICS
Lyceum Northwestern University



In partial fulfillment of the requirement in Software
Engineering for the Department of Bachelor of Science in
Information Technology

By: Esguera, Carla A.
Flores, Jinky D.
Nitafan, Allyssa Jozel B.



Background of the Study

Nowadays, the way many people interact with each other has
changed because of technology. First of all, absolute advantage
is that technology makes the world move faster. To support,
speed of daily business interactions increasing all the time.
There are many ways in which how technology is changing
educating from pre-school to College, the education trend has
now changed. Communications and delivery of the education has
become so advanced. Right from the primary school grades to the
height of graduate school, technology can be used as a powerful
tool for education. Teachers, and students should take advantage
of this.
Grading System is a very important aspect of a schools
operation and goals. The student are graded to accurately
compute the grades of the students using their calculators,
whether an ordinary of scientific type.
Grading System will help to improve to make faster and
easier the manual grading system in every school in many ways
such as in computing and analyzing the performance, talent and
skills of students. It is the important record to keep even for
the longest time for the referral and credentials of the student
to enter their next level of attaining their goals. It is the
tract record that recognizes of one student, this maybe use for
analyzing of your attitude and values.
According to(http://ursinus.abroadoffice.net/Grading.html),
the U.S. Grading System at the end of each semester, you will be
given a grade for the quality and quantity of your work in a
given class. A students academic standing is determined by the
number of credits (classes) completed and his or her GPA. A
students GPA is calculated by multiplying the number of units
(credits) attempted in each course by the grade points earned
per course. All grade point totals are added together. This sum
is divided by the total number of credits, creating a final mean
value.









The 4.0 Grading System
Grade Grade points per
unit
Numeric
grade
Definition
A+ 4.0 98.33 Outstanding Superior
A 4.0 95.00 Outstanding
A- 3.7 91.67 Extremely good work
B+ 3.3 88.33 Very good work
B 3.0 85.00 Good work
B- 2.7 81.67 Quite a bit better
than average
C+ 2.3 78.33 Better than average
C 2.0 75.00 Average;
satisfactory work
C- 1.7 71.67 Almost satisfactory
D+ 1.3 68.33 Not good
D 1.0 65.00 Barely passing
D- 0.67 61.67 Passing with high
risk to fail
F 0.00 45.00 Failure

A grade of F counts in a GPA as a 0.0 average. The class must
be repeated with a passing grade in order to earn credit toward
graduation.
Mangatarem Institute was the old name of the school, they
renamed it as Mangatarem Catholic School that was founded in
1956.Mangatarem Catholic Schooloffers programs in pre-school,
elementary and secondary levels. The principal of the school was
Mrs. Rita Fernandez Austria and Sr. Natividad M. Mendoza the
directress who led the school.
Table 1 shows the number of students in Mangatarem Catholic
School.
The list of the students enrolled in Mangatarem Catholic School:

Grade/Year No. of Students
Grade 7 100
Grade 8 83
3
rd
year 145
4
th
year 110

All level were divided by two sections. The school has 20
employees, 3 are non-teaching and there are 17 teachers who
supervise the students. They have five building in this
institution to accommodate the employees and the students.They
also have 20 working computers, also they have room for the film
showing, and they teach some advance topic in college in order
for them to ready the students for taking up college.
We choose this system for widely used of technology in
education. Until today many school still using the old system
type. If we create a computer-based grading system, it will be
more easy and reliable work for the teachers. Many teachers
today are still using the lesson plan. Because of many work of
the teachers for the lesson and for the teaching, it will be
less stress for them if they will used computer-based grading
system.
Statement of the Problems
The study aims to make a computer-based grading database
which can help aid the problem regarding in recording, and
reporting student grades. Especially it seeks answer the
following problems:
1. What are the existing processes in the Mangatarem Catholic
School?
2. What are the features to include?
3. What is the acceptance level in term of CARTS?
a) completeness;
b) accuracy;
c) reliability;
d) timeliness and;
e) security?
Significance of the Study
The following entities are the beneficiaries of this study:
Mangatarem Catholic School. This will further help to make their
daily routine easier.
Teachers.The system will help the teachers more efficient. Also
this grading system make students data easily accessible in
an accurate manner. Using the system, the teachers now can
focused more in teaching and can also focused in managing
programs in the school.
Students. The system will help students to see their grades
easily and to be benefited of having safe and secured
records in the long run the system.
Proponents. The study has also helped the developers to acquire
knowledge regarding the operation of the school with the
use of gathered information about the facts of the process
involved in grading system. Implementation of the study
will broaden the knowledge of the developers on how to
build, design and implement a grading system.
Future proponents. This research study will serve as reference
of an associated study on grading system. They can get the
things that they needed from this study.
SCOPE OF LIMITATION
The proponents set the scope and limitation of the proposed
system to have a guide in developing the system.
The proposed system is computer-based. It can encode
records of the students for the first grading until fourth
grading. And also can encode the information of students. It can
perform the computation for the grades to first grading until
fourth grading. It can auto organize the arrangement of the
student by default in student numbers but it can also arrange by
alphabetical or grades. It can also print the record in the
database.

Definition of Terms
The following terms were operationally defined:
Database - is an organized collection of data. The data are
typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality in a
way that supports processes requiring this information. For
example, modeling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way
that supports finding a hotel with vacancies.
Microsoft Access also known as Microsoft Office Access, is
a database management system from Microsoft that combines the
relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user
interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the
Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the
Professional and higher editions or sold separately.
Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the
Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly
to data stored in other applications and databases
Microsoft Jet Database Engine - is a database engine on
which several Microsoft products have been built. A database
engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection
of information stored on a computer in a systematic way. The
first version of Jet was developed in 1992, consisting of three
modules which could be used to manipulate a database.
Microsoft Visual Studio - is an integrated development
environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and
graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms
or WPF applications, web sites, web applications, and web
services in both native code together with managed code for all
platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile,
Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft
Silverlight.
Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface
operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
MS .NET Framework - is a software framework developed by
Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes
a large library and provides language interoperability across
several programming languages.
Printer -is a peripheral which makes a representation of an
electronic document on physical media. Individual printers are
designed to support local and network users at the same time.
Some printers can print documents stored on memory cards or from
digital cameras and scanners.
Visual Basic - is a third-generation event-driven
programming language and integrated development environment from
Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991.
Microsoft intends Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn
and use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the
rapid application development of graphical user interface
applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects,
Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of
ActiveX controls and objects.
Windows Forms (WinForms) - is the name given to the
graphical application programming interface included as a part
of Microsoft .NET Framework, providing access to native
Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the extant
Windows API in managed code. While it is seen as a replacement
for the earlier and more complex C++ based Microsoft Foundation
Class Library, it does not offer a paradigm comparable to Model
ViewController. Some after-market and third party libraries
have been created to provide this functionality. The most widely
used of these is the User Interface Process Application Block,
which is released by the Microsoft patterns & practices group as
a free download that includes the source code for quick start
examples.