Journal of Engineering, Computers & Applied Sciences (JEC&AS) ISSN No: 2319‐5606 Volume 2, No.6, June 2013 _________________________________________________________________________________

Automatic Biometric Student Attendance System: A Case Study Christian Service University College
Dr Thomas Yeboah Dr Ing Edward Opoku-Mensah Mr Christopher Ayaaba Abilimi

ABSTRACT
In many tertiary institutions in Ghana such as Christian Service University the attendance of students is very important factor since it forms part of the students’ assessment and evaluation. It has therefore become imperative that proper measures should be put in place to ensure that no student signs for another. It has been observed that at Christian Service University College lecturers sometimes give the attendance book to students to sign without actually supervising them to see whether the right student is signing or making sure that no student signs for another. Moreover, if a lecturer wants to supervise the signing of the attendance book to make sure that the right student is signing and no student signs for a friend then the lecturer may end up by wasting a significant amount of the lecture period on the signing supervision. Furthermore, in the larger classes lecturers sometimes use their own ideology and principles to award the attendance marks (5%) that counts towards continuous assessment for students because they find counting each individual student’s attendance laborious, boring and even error prone. This means that the 5% marks obtained by students from attendance sometimes does not give a true picture about the student and therefore proper measures should be implemented to eradicate some of these irregularities in students