Mathematical and Physical Sciences

The need to equip Nigerian graduates with the right experience, knowledge and skills required of them in the industry is one of the major reasons for the Student Industrial Workshop Experience Scheme (SIWES) programme. It is also an avenue for students in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to take learning out of the classroom to a more practical environment. However, the conduct of the programme needs thorough supervision in order to ascertain that the aims and objectives of SIWES are met. It was discovered that the existing system of management of students during the SIWES period is far from being effective as it often involves physical visitation of the students by supervisors whilst incurring some operating costs. Besides monitoring, mentoring is another vital role of the supervisor. Furthermore, mentoring has not been feasible due to the effect of varying locations of the duty posts of students. Hence, in order to solve these problems, a web-based solution is proposed in this paper that was designed and implemented using PHP-MYSQL technology.

This research project examined the inadequacies involved in the manual method of compiling students’ result in secondary schools in Nigeria. The problems with the manual result processing were identified and a new system was proposed, designed, and implemented. In this work, a computer software application was developed to facilitate the automated processing of the results. The software was developed using PHP (Hypertext processor) programming language and MYSQL (My Structural Query Language), a relational database management system in designing the database; tested and found to have produced the expected results. Teachers do not need to draw vertical/horizontal lines on a broad sheet of paper for recording students test and exam scores, and also need not to do any form of calculations, as the system does virtually everything. The software will make the teacher’s job less stressful by cutting down the time and effort spent on result preparation, thereby, allowing the teacher more time for teaching and other instructional issues. This new system is flexible and can be modified to suit any kind of students’ record keeping and data processing in both public and private secondary schools.
In the course of the study, an existing system was digested and its deficiencies were detected and emphatically analyzed, after which solutions to the problems were proffered in the new designed computerized system that is reliable and more interactive.  The new system terminates all the problems experienced with the existing system.  The case study of this research work is Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (M.E.S.L) Secondary School, New Bussa, Niger State.