This project aims to produce a web-based system for staff and students. Staff are able to track their students' attendance. The system provides attendance reports about a specific lecture or module. If the staff is a mentor or a supervisor, he can view his students' attendance reports. Students are able to view their attendance status. The system provides summarized or detailed reports about students' attendance. This book describes the requirements, design, implementation and security of "Tracking Students' Attendance" system. The system sends warning emails to students who exceed a specific number of absences. It system provides a web-based interface for tracking attendance of each students. Usernames and passwords are required to login the system. The whole system has been tested. A significant proportion of the proposed requirements were met with a web application based on PHP scripting language and MySQL database. It was concluded that the project as a whole was a success.

Presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.

This is a brief exploration of running records, explaining why to use them, how they relate to teaching, and how to administer them.

Covers scope of longitudinal research at community colleges, effectiveness indicators, etc.

Longitudinal student tracking systems now serve a multitude of masters. Growing accountability demands from states, accreditors, and the federal government prominently feature such measures as persistence and graduate rates and time-to-degree. At the same time, resource shortfalls are driving institutions and state higher education systems to examine their operations more carefully in order to achieve greater coherence and efficiency; understanding and monitoring student flow is a prominent part of this effort. In light of these developments, student tracking has come of age. This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research describes important changes in the requirements for student tracking data bases and examines the expanding technical possibilities provided by statewide administrative data bases and by the availability of greatly enhanced data-manipulation and statistical tools for constructing and analyzing longitudinal data files. This is the 87th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Institutional Research. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.