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Position Paper - Student-Subject Allocation System

Autor:   •  November 21, 2011  •  Essay  •  342 Words (2 Pages)  •  1,735 Views

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Nowadays, most of the secondary students are experiencing the New Senior Secondary curriculum (NSS). Under this curriculum, students only need to study four subjects and they are more flexible on choosing the subjects that they want to study. In order to facilitate student on choosing their own elective subjects, a Student-Subject Allocation System (SSAS) is needed.

By using the Student-Subject Allocation System, several functions can be achieved. It basically includes management of student personal records, management of selection and allocation constraints, inputting of elective preference, and reporting of allocation result. Compare with the traditional way of allocating students' subjects choice (allocation is done manually), this system should be a great improvement and is useful for both students and teachers. However, in order to achieve those functions mentioned above, and ensure that the Student-Subject Allocation System can work normally without making any mistakes on allocating students' elective preference, this system should be carefully planned and fully tested before use, any simple mistake will affect the allocation process, wrong allocation result will be produced, and this is not fair to students.

New Senior Secondary represents a new academic structure including 3 yeas of junior secondary education (S1-S3), 3 years of senior secondary education (S4-S6) and 4 years of university education.

The knowledge and learning experiences in NSS curriculum are broader and richer than previous curricula. Apart from taking the four core subjects (Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics and Liberal Studies), students will choose 2 to 3 elective subjects.

There are total five classes in the Student-Subject Allocation System. In each class, it will have the same core subjects including Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics and Liberal Studies. Apart from the core subjects, each class will assign with one

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