APPLICATION OF LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY ACTIVE PROTOCOL IN GENERAL STUDY EXAMINATIONS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

In the universities, mostly in Nigerian, general study courses examination popularly known as GST are written using paper and pen. This approach takes longer time for the lecturers to assess the students and more so during the invigilation. This paper is geared towards creating a more friendly approach, security based, high response time to downloading of the questions and uploading to grading in the form of computer based test having graphic user interface to administer examinations to the students of higher learning institutions using lightweight directory active protocol which runs on apache web server. The application was developed with PHP and CSS with SQL database scheme at the back end to store data of the general study questions, the answers and then grades the students immediately after the examination. This approach in general study examination having computer based test proved effective in administering examinations to the students, more secured and ubiquitous as students can stay anywhere to write the examinations when permitted by the school authority and enables by the administrator. Consequently, this approach is different from other computer based test as it incorporates both objective questions and subjective questions.