CHAPTER1

The problem and its Background

INTRODUCTION

What are the benefits of having an android based attendance system

(ABAS)? Can ABAS solve the problem in terms of taking of daily attendance of

the students?

The traditional attendance system needs student’s to physically sign the

attendance sheet each time for the attendance of each class. This is

unnecessarily timeconsuming to notice and mark student's name on the

attendance sheet. Using android phones they can monitor their performanceas

well as in server and can check percentage and also can print as hard copy.

The researchers would like to know how important is having an android

based class attendance monitoring.The main objective of this research is to know

the perception of the teachers of Arellano University Pasig about if this kind of

modern attendance system would be implemented to Arellano University Pasig

The researchers respondents are selected senior high school teachers in

Arellano University Pasig. Why SHS teachers? Because we want to get their

perceptions in having of Android Based Attendance System(ABAS) in AU Pasig.

Android based class attendance monitoring is a software for daily

student’s attendance in school, institutes and collages; it facilitates the

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information of a student in a particular class, this kind of android based class

attendance monitoring is very helpful to our teachers to evaluate attendance

eligibility of criteria of a student, this android based class attendance monitoring

is not only for students but also for employees.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The theory of perception by Thomas Reid’s book at chapter (p.41)

intentional awareness. Reid characterizes the type of conceptual awareness of

interest to his theory of perception as a special sub species of conception, what

he calls apprehension. Apprehension is responsible for the presentation of mind

independent objects directly to the mind. Reid describes the conceptual state that

apprehension produces as an “immanent act of mind”. This is an intentional state

because it necessarily takes objects. Apprehensions thus differ from other mental

states, such as moods, which are not intentional. Chapter (p.109) visual

perception in this chapter analyzes Reid’s theory of visual perception. Vision had

seemed to Reid’s predecessors obviously to be indirect. He argues that the

presence of visible figure does not thwart his attempt to show that even visual

perception can provide us direct access to features to the world. Chapter (p.211)

perceptual learning. Reid’s moves beyond appeal to suggestion though his

sophisticated analysis of what he calls “original” and “acquired” perception. This

chapter focuses in these terms, which he uses to conduct his discussion of the

role of cognition in perception. These terms refer to stages that the process of

constructing full-bodied perceptual content from rudimentary metal states. With

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 and unfamiliar object the process of perceptual learning by slinging it out

demonstratively, and eventually arrive at a complex perceptual belief.

Many academic institutions are beginning toupdate their standards by

issuing students withidentification cards that are equipped withbarcodes, ID

chips, radio frequency identification(RFID) tags, and so on (Andrew, 2011).

Thisdecision opens up a window to implementbarcode identification systems in

classrooms as a management tool to solve many of the problemsfacedby

lecturers and the institutions’management in classroom attendancemanagement.

Due to the inefficiency of traditionalmethods of attendance record keeping, a

moresecure and accurate barcode technology modelis needed to be formulated

and implemented

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Input Process Output

1. The Statement of  Interview guide  The Perception of
the problem consist of question Senior High School
having a modern way of  Video Recorder teachers in terms of
getting the attendance,
having a android
monitoring the attendance
based attendance
of the students and the
System
2. Advantages and
limitation of android based
attendance
3. Sampling
Technique(purposive
sampling

Figure no 1. The IPO Figure.

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This Study is determined the importance of Android-Based Attendance3

System (ABAS) in Arellano University-Pasig:

1. Do you wish to have a modern way of getting an attendance system? If

yes, why? And if no, why?

2. How will ABAS monitor the attendance of Arellano University Pasig

students?

3. What are the advantages and limitations of android-based attendance

system?

4. What would be the negativity of having this kind of attendance system

5. What would be the importance of having this kind of attendance system?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The following group benefited to the research:

To The School -The result of the study would provide more efficient and

effective processing of data. It would also result to faster and easier way to

monitor the performance of the students.

To The Teachers- The teacher develop their way on monitoring the attendance

of their students. It will give them the overall performance of every student per

class in attendance.

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To The Students-The students can easily installed this app when it’s

implemented. They may get ideas on how they prevent the absence of them in

school.

To The Future Researchers- the future researchers could get an addition

information about the android based attendance system.

To The Android Based Attendance Creator – The creators of the Android

Based Attendance System

SCOPE AND DELIMINATION

In this study the researcher’s would be talking about the perceptions of the Senior

High School teachers for having an advanced way of taking the attendance of the students

that would not be time consuming and convenient for both the student and the teacher

that could lessen up the time consumption of taking the attendance before starting the

lesson there for the researchers would be introducing to them (The chosen Teachers of

Arellano University Pasig ) the android based attendance system either if they would

agree having this kind of system or what they could expect in this kind of system would

be produced in our school (Arellano University Pasig) only an ample amount of

participants would be chosen to answer the researchers interview.The researchers

conducted this study at Arellano University Pasig Located at Brgy. Caniogan, Pasig city

Hypothesis

The researchers are predicting that a lot of Senior High School teachers

would like to have an modern way of getting the attendance of the students that

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could be accurate and cant be cheated so they would know if a student is really

present or not.

There would be a lot difference between the old and modern way of

getting the attendance of a student.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

The following terms were defined according to the topic about the importance of

Android-Based Attendance System (ABAS) in Arellano University-Pasig

Android Base - An Android app is a software application running on the Android

platform. Because the Android platform is built for mobile devices, a typical

Android app is designed for a smartphone or a tablet PC running on the Android

OS.

Biometric-is defined as automated identification or verification of human identify

through the measurement of repeatable physiological and behavioral

characteristics.

Proxies-the authority to represent someone else

Scalability-the capacity to be changed in size or scale

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 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW AND RELATED LITERATURE

Local Literature

According to Z. Camadain her article “Androidbased Attendance

Management System” (2015) she said most lecturers in universities are

found still using the conventional methods of taking students’ attendance in

addition to the time-consuming issue, such method is also at higher risk of

having students cheating about their attendance

This Article is appropriate to the present study to help the Senior

High School teachers prevent students cheating on their own attendance at

school for some students bribe their classmates to say that they are present even

though they aren’t.

According J. Manancio in her article “Android Attendance” (2015)

He said that an adopted and implement an android recognition

based attendance system to record and management students’ attendance

and sent E-mail address in MATLAB programming environment

This article is relevant to the present study because it indicates to

process could help to increase the desire attending on-time and raising

the education level

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 According to J. Mandalas in her article “Attendance in no Time” (2012)

Therefore, it is a critical subject to tracking and manages student's attendance in

school, college, and university environment.

This study was related to the recent study because of their huge

relevance it also helped to urge students to attend on time, amend the efficiency

of the learning, increase learning grade, and finally boosting and improving the

education level

LOCAL STUDIES

According to Lorissa Joana E. Buenas, Zeus Aaron R.Malvar, John

Alexies B. Maranan Master of Science in Information Technology Bachelor of

Science inComputer Science, College of Engineering and Computing

SciencesBatangas State University ARASOF- Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines.

(2015)

This research involves an android application in attendance management

system. The study sought to provide an alternative solution to the increasing

demand for time management in the College of Engineering and Computing

Sciences in Batangas State University ARASOF

According to Jenny L. Resuelloof College of Science, University of

Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Philippines ( 2017)

Portability allows a teacher to bring his or her mobile phone wherever he

or she may go particularly into a classroom, which would guide him/her to

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efficiently manage a class. Today, mobile phones can be used to increase

students’ organization, hastening collaboration, and maximizing portability of

technology. In this study, an attempt has been made to develop an Android-

Based Class Record System which will focus on achieving mobility in managing

and monitoring student class record.

According to Michael R. Crisostomo, Elemar B. Gallardo, ElviCatheLzil M.

Orbina, Melvin John H. Banzuelo of Engineering, Applied Sciences.

The study aimed to create an Android-based system that manages the

use of appliances in a typical room of a student in a boarding house with regard

to switching and control via an Android tablet. The system is composed of two

Android tablets – one specifically for the GSM and the other for Bluetooth, an

Android application that displays the outlets, and a main control panel that

houses the microcontroller and the Bluetooth module.

FOREIGN STUDIES

Study shows that android being a dominant gadgets in lots of country

worldwide, has a positive impact in lot of aspect like in attendance, vocabulary,

and in critical thinking because android is more in useful in the world(Blanskat,

Blamire, kefala,2016)

Manyteachers now a day are using android to support traditional learning

methods, for example, information retrieval, attendance in which students are

‘passive learners of knowledge and instead of ‘active producers able to take part

in the learning process., (Galea 2015)

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 Android is open a wide range and new communication method that greatly

helped the world when it comes in sending and receiving information thru

internet, android also helping the world to buy and use communication tools in a

lesser price, (Andy Walton, 2016).

MirzodalerMuhsinzoda(2015) stated that The main purpose of android are

to provide the right information to the right people at the right time. It is used to

track, store, manipulate and distribute the information from gathered data to

appropriate persons when necessary.

Foreign Literature

According to N Saparkhojayev, E Shakhov and Y Mailybayev of Journal

of Physics: Conference Series.(2015)

Android is designed for low-power devices that run on battery power at full

capacity, using all of its services, such as cameras, lights, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi,

etc. In Kazakhstani universities, the process of checking students' attendance is

one of the important issues, because final grade evaluation of students is based

on their total number of appearances and their grades during the whole

semester. This raises the question of having some tool to control students'

attendance.

According to Freya. J. Vora, Pooja. L. Yadav, Rhea. P. Rai, Nikita. M.

Yadav of Computer Engineering, Thakur Polytechnic, Mumbai, Maharashtra,

India

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 Attendance is a vital part of daily routine in educational institutes,offices

and many other organizations. In schools and colleges this attendance marking

is done manually but with advent of new technologies like smart

phones,ipad,tablets,palmtops the world is just a click away. Today, we need not

use pen and paper based attendance registers instead we can use very easy

and efficient methods like taking e-attendance.

According Shraddha S. Chawhan, Mangesh P. Girhale, GunjanMankar. Of

the Student of Dept. of Computer Science &Engg/ Dr.BabasahebAmbedkar

College of Engg&Research,Nagpur.(2015)

In this paper the researchers are emphasizing on developing this project

that will help the lecturers to take attendance easily, securely and is less error

prone. For this, we are implementing software “Mobile Phone Based Attendance

System (MPBAS)” based on Android Technology. We are inspired to work on

MPBAS from the existing system E-Beat. MPBAS will help lecturers to take the

attendance of students using Smart-phone. Lecturers will login to the phone

application, get connected to the server and take attendance using Smartphone

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 Chapter 3

Methods and Procedure

This chapter contains the introduction of the interview guide questions, the

methods of research used the respondents for this research, the sampling technique, the

research instruments that the researchers used, the validation of the instruments and the

procedure of data gathering.

Methods of Research

The method used in the study is a descriptive method to get the

perception of Senior High School teachers about having an android based

attendance system in Arellano University Pasig. The researchers did a qualitative

type of research in which the researchers conducted and interview to chosen

Senior High School teachers to get their perception.

Informants of the Study

The respondents for this study are selected senior high school teachers

that consist of 5 male And 5 female teachers of Arellano University Pasig to

participate in the process.

Sampling Technique

In this study, the researchers employed the purposive sampling technique

for the selection of the respondents. The chosen sample of Senior High School

teacher with prior knowledge about Android-based attendance system from the

population of teachers in AU Pasig were used in accordance to the needs of the

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study. Specifically, in selected senior high school teachers in AU Pasig were the

respondents of the study for only them can provide relevant and useful

information in answering the interview that the researchers would conduct.

Research Instrument

The instrument used to accomplish the main objective of the study is by using an

interview guide questionnaire and a phone video recorderto document the inputs of the

respondents to the review guide questionnaire.

Validation of Instrument

The researchers’ Practical Research 1 subject teacher Mr. Marvin C.

Rogando validated the interview guide questionnaire because he is the one who

guided the researchers to compose this specific topic and ideas for this research

study. Therefore, he verified the interview guide question before the researchers’

conducted an interview.

Procedure of Data Gathering

First, the researchers brainstormed the interview guide question based on the

statement of the problem and formulated the questions. Second, the researchers validated

the interview guide question to the practical research 1 subject teacher. Third, the

researchers conducted a personal interview to the chosen respondents from Senior High

School teachers and lastly the researchers transferred the copy to a transcript for the

interpretation of the results in the succeeding chapters.

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