Descriptive Mark Systemfor Primary Schools

by Leszek Syroka

Supervisor: Richard Gatward

Coventry 2007/2008

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Presentation Plan

What is the Descriptive Mark?Background research.Requirements analysis.Design of the product.

Database.Client.Connection client and database.

What is already done.What needs to be done.Questions.

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What is the Descriptive Mark?introduced to primary schools in Poland at 1999using description of child's progress instead of markdescription shows that every child has different problems and abilitiesexample:

equivalent of giving B from maths assignment can be description “Child can easily add but has problems with multiplying.”

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Background research

descriptive mark for each pupil have to be written to school registry, archive and certificate.handwriting one descriptive mark lasts about 20 minutes.every mistake in handwrite causes writing mark from the very beginning.teacher who has 30 pupils have to spend 30*3*20min = 30h on handwriting.there is no application which solves this problem

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Background research 2

Certificate front

student data

names

surname

date and place of birth

school data (constant)

name

location

resolution date

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Background research 3

Certificate back

behavior mark

religion mark

other marks

speaking

reading

writing

maths

environmental science

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Requirement analysis

Survey conducted in Poland shown that the most important features of the product are:

shorten time of producing descriptive mark.user friendly GUI.printing on 3 different forms: certificate, school registry, archive.saving results.

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Requirements analysis 2

How shorten the time of producing descriptive mark?

printing instead of handwritingusing prepared before mark samplesstoring marks, students data and constant parameters in database editing markscoherency of constantssharing marks with other teachers

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Design of the product

Database:MySQL

freeconforms to SQL standards

stores marks, pupils and school data.server provided by school to share marks between teachers and assure coherency of constant fields.

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Database

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Client Application

Language choice - JavaSWING used to create Graphical User Interface

JDBC - MySQL database connection support

advanced printing API

portability

Interface modelled on various window based applications.

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Client Application

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Client – database connection

connection established by using JDBC (Java Database Connection) mechanism.

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What is already done?

Background research.

Users' requirement specification.

Project design.

Some implementation features:

Established connection between client and database.

Data base operations: adding, removing and updating elements.

Graphical User Interface.

Producing marks by using samples.

Printing marks on certificate.

Two language versions: Polish and English.

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What need to be done?

Printing marks on school registry and archive.

Solving problem with Polish characters in MySQL database.

Creating users in database.

Debugging and testing.

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The end

Thank you for your attention.

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