CHAPTER ONE
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Caritas University,
Amorji Nike, Enugu, is a private University approved by the Federal Government
of Nigeria on December 16 2004. It was officially opened on January 21, 2005 by
the Federal Ministry for Education, Prof. Fabian Osuji. The formal opening was
on January 31, 2005. The pioneer students of 250 matriculated on May 28, 2005
in beautiful ceremony that attracted dignitaries both church and state. It is
the second Catholic University in Nigeria founded by Rev. Fr. Prof. Emmanuel
Paul Mathew Edeh Cssp, OFR. Although he founded the school, the proprietor of
the University is the Congregation of Sisters the Saviour, a religious
Congregation of Nuns founded by him.
The vision of Caritas
University is to rescue some of our wandering and teaming youths from further
slide into academic and moral decay, and development and transformation of our
society through sound and adulterated education. Its mission is to discover,
sanctify and apply the knowledge of science, environmental and engineering for
human well-being and sound development of man for better society.
Caritas University’s
goal is to give efficacy to the University’s motto and to its philosophy of
education. We embrace not only sound education for professional skills and
competency in various fields; but also maintain strict discipline. We train the
mind, body, soul and spirit in the exercise of obedience and self control. The
students must not only be intellectually and professionally prepared for
different tasks and roles in the world, they must also be morally equipped to
face the world itself with all its tensions, conflicts, challenges and
contradictions. We achieve this with the help of God Almighty who is with us
always.
The philosophy is to
promote sound education for professional skills and competencies in various
fields with strict discipline. By discipline the University meant the training
of the mind, body and soul and spirit to obedience and self control. Also to
prepare the students to be intellectually and professionally sound for
different tasks and roles in the word with its tensions, conflicts, challenges
and contradictions.
The University operates
faculty system. Presently, the University operates six faculties: Education and
Arts, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Management, Social Sciences and
Natural Sciences.
1.2
DEFINITION
A Computer-Based Result
Management Information System (CBRMIS) is a set of software
programsthat is designed to control the institution’s (practically
using CARITAS UNIVERSITY), storage,
management, and retrieval of data (RESULT) in
a database.
CBRMISs are categorized according to their data structures or types. The CBRMIS
accepts requests for data from an application program and instructs the operating system to
transfer the appropriate data. The queries and
responses must be submitted and received according to a format that conforms to
one or more applicable protocols. When a CBRMIS is used, information systems can be changed much
more easily as the organization's information requirements change. Use of
manual imputation of result is discarded and new categories of data can be
added to the database so easily without disruption to the existing system.
A database management
system provides the ability for many different users to share data and process
resources. But as there can be many different users, there are many different
database needs. The question now is: How can a single, unified database meet
the differing requirement of so many users?
As this study entails
using a different form of database management in connection with organizational
result computation and assessment. This brings about the use of computer-based
result management information system (CBRMIS).
Before the database
management approach, the institution relied on the manual method of data
processing and storage. Each file was specialized to be used with a specific
application. Needless to say, file processing was bulky, costly and nonflexible
when it came to supplying needed data accurately and promptly.
This study therefore,
examines clearly the effect of the computer-based result management information
system (CBRMIS) towards the development of CARITAS UNIVERSITY.
1.3
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Since this study is
specifically to use the physical view to make efficient use of storage
and processing resources, therefore, the objective of this study includes the
following;
1. To help in facilitating generation of ad hoc
query.
2. To ensure reliability and transparency in the
creation and computation of results
3. To present a platform for assessment of the
performance of the students and workers in other to help develop enabling
policy for academic quality and standard.
4. To prevent unauthorized access or mutilation of
the results of the students thereby maintaining data integrity.
5. To help the users of the result database
software (RDS) to manage the overall database environment by providing
facilities for backup and recovery, security management, query optimization,
concurrency control, and change management.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The significance of this
study is to examine closely the advantage of this result application to the
benefit of Caritas University and the entire community.
1. It will serve as a reference material to those
who use this project material.
2. It is a contribution to knowledge
3. It will provide information to other
researchers/developers on how best and beneficial the use of a management
information system can be in providing accurate information for an
organization’s decision making.
4. It will ensure high level quality service
development of the management which will ensure that students are not subjected
to undue suffering in collection of their transcript or clearance prior to the deployment
for youth service.
1.5
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of this study
is an integrated study on the use of a Computer-based Result Management
Information System (CBRMIS) a case of Caritas University.
1.7
DEFINITION OF TERMS/VARIABLES
Management: Management is a human action, including
design, to facilitate
The production of useful outcomes from a system.
Processing: To deal with somebody or something
according to an established
Procedure.
System: a set of computer components i.e. in
assembly of Computer hardware,
Software and peripherals functioning together.
Automation: the replacement of human workers by
technology; a system in
which a workplace or processes has been
converted to one that replaced or ministries human labour with electronic or
mechanical equipment.
Information: Data that has been worked upon and processed.
·
: a systematically
arranged collection of data, designed so
that it can be automatically retrieved or
manipulated
easily by
authorized users.
Database servers: Database servers are
computers that hold the actual databases and run only the DBMS and related
software.
Data structure: Data structures (fields,
records, files and objects)
optimized to deal with very large amounts of
data stored on a permanent data storage device (which implies
relatively slow access compared to volatile main
memory).
Data security: Data security prevents
unauthorized users from viewing or
updating the database by the use of passwords.
Data consistency: Data consistency ensures a consistent view of
data to
every user.
o
this is a secret code
that a user must type into a computer to enable
He/she access it or its applications. This is
made up of numbers, letters, characters or contribution of any of the above
categories.
A. : Hypertext Preprocessor (the
name is a recursive acronym) This is a
Programming language known as a server-side
scripting language. It was used in the developing of this software.
Query language: A database query language and report
writer allows users
to interactively interrogate the database,
analyze its data and update it according to the user’s privileges on data. It also
controls the security of the database.
Software: a software is a collection of written programs
which directs the
computer on what to do.
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: Querying is the
process of requesting attribute information from
various perspectives and combinations of
factors.
Modules: this is an independent/self- contained program.
SQL: Structured Query Language, it is a code used to
query or insert records in a
Database.
Department | Computer Science |
Project ID Code | CMS0011 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 102 pages |
Methodology | Scientific Method |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦5000, $15 |
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