The Implementation of Wireless Student Attendance System in an Examination Procedure

An effective information system needs to support a set of activities, which enable human beings to achieve effectively the objectives of the organization, supported by computer-based information technology (Gasson, 1994). Traditional styles of attendance management include hand-written signatures, card bell, magnetic card, IC card and RF card attendance machines. These styles cannot avoid checking out the attendance slip (Zhang and Liu, 2009). This paper summarizes an improvement for manual attendance system during examination using wireless student attendance system. The implementation combines the wireless technology to trace, store and transfer of data to the host computer for report generation and data analysis. This system offers effectiveness through its functions in capturing data, minimizing time-constraint, and saving effort to write/collect/check attendance slips. The improved student attendance system provides effectiveness and efficiency in administering and managing the attendance procedure; hence minimizing cost and improving productivity thus improving staff development.