Android Based Performance Assessment System for School Education

Abstract

Primary and secondary school education plays important role in the knowledge development of any country. In India, government schools gaining less admission due to the infrastructure and quality of education.  There are many proactive methods taken by the government to ensure that the school education empowers the students in the knowledge acquisition. Performance assessment of the schools, teachers and students is required at the periodic interval to validate the quality of the education. Also, school education department requires multi-dimensional reports of the school, staff and students for the allocation of funds and implementation of different schemes. Currently, these reports are prepared manually in paper format and communicated to the district offices. It is time consuming as well as requires man effort. This paper proposes an android based performance assessment system by which the details can be collected through android mobiles/tablets and stores in the server. Web based system is also facilitated to the schools to input the details whenever required. It helps the school education department to extract the data at anytime, anywhere. Also, this system reduces the time and effort of the staff in manual preparation. The results are evaluated for the effectiveness and found that android based mobile application gives good results.