Design and implementation of a computerised career guidance information system

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p><strong>1.1 Statement Of The Problem</strong><br>The number of students involved in schools counselling are very enormous and few staff in counselling cannot handle the job effectively.<br>It is always very easy to forget information about students and to reach all the students, contributes and problems.<br>Another major problem of the counselling is information storage. The made of storage of information observed from the students in different forms is not reliable and this makes the counselling to apply guess work in trying to direct students in their future career work.<br>This is a very big delay in taking decision on students concerning their future career. This is also because referencing to students information for decision making takes a very long time.</p><p></p><p><strong>1.2 Aims/Objectives</strong><br>The primary aim of this projects work is to provide lasting solution to the problem affecting counselling exercise in secondary schools. The following objectives below are the study<br> To make the criteria and process involved in the exercise of counselling very easy and flexible<br> To carefully take care of the burden, the staff faces in trying to do the work of counselling manually.<br> To provide adequate enabling environment for counselling on student to give them better career perspective<br> To maintain adequate observed information on students for future reference and quick decision taking.<br>1.3 Purpose Of The Study<br>The purpose of this project work is to probe into the developing a counselling software for schools with a view of creating awareness of the use computer in counselling with due consideration of this new technology advancement.<br>5<br>1.4 Significance Of The Study<br>This study is of numerous important to the guidance and counsellor department and the society in general in different ways:<br> It will help the counsellor to always direct the students in their best career area with happiness because it will be result oriented.<br> It will also help to eliminate the word frustration among the people which is very common in the society.<br> It will ease of the stress of the counsellor using his/her brain trying to store information about different students in their large number and each student‟s area of interest he/she is fit for.<br> Using an automated system in this situation would be very efficient especially in information storage.</p><p><strong>1.5 Scope/ Delimitation Of The Study</strong><br>The study covers the design and implementation of computerized career choice counselling system in secondary schools.</p><p><strong>1.6 Constraints / Limitations</strong><br>The major constraints identified in the course of this work are as follows:<br> There are many secondary schools in primitive/rural areas that have little or no technological facilities in the school. Implementation of this system in such a situation becomes a problem.<br> There may also be staff in the school who do not have knowledge on proper usage of computer. If such staff works in the guidance and counselling unit, it would be cumbersome for him/her to operate the computerized system.<br>Recommended solution to these problems is that there should be a room for proper training of personnel who cannot operate computers properly. Also, government should help provide technological facilities in those schools in the rural areas that have little or no level of technology.</p><p><strong>1.7 Definition Of Terms</strong><br><strong>COUNSELLING</strong>: To give advise to another<br><strong>SOCIETY</strong>&nbsp;:This is an organized group of people living together and having things together<br><strong>AUTOMATED</strong>: Less independent of human direction and utilizes techniques of automation.<br><strong>PROMPT</strong>: To motivate an action<br><strong>SYSTEM</strong>: A combination of parts organized in a whole working together to achieve a common purpose<br><strong>PSYCHOLOGY</strong>: The study of mind and it‟s function<br><strong>DATA</strong>: This is a raw and unprocessed facts and figures obtained from experiments, research, surveys etc. used to develop something or make decision.<br><strong>RECORD</strong>: To write down event so that it can be remember d<br><strong>COMPUTER</strong>&nbsp;: This is an electronic device that accept raw facts as data and processes it to give useful information.<br><strong>INFORMATION</strong>: Data that has been processed</p> <br><p></p>