NOVEL TECHNOLOGY SMARTAL (STUDENT MANAGEMENT PORTAL): FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DIAGNOSIS MODULE

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2010-03
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RAJAMANICAM, ROSHINI
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This dissertation is a business plan cum research to market a product, Student Management Portal (SMaRtal) by a company called Novel Technology. This company is founded by three partners, Siti Noor Arfah, Nethanjali Manoharan and Roshini Rajamanicam. The company intends to market the product to the education sector in Malaysia mainly to the schools and the parents of school children. SMaRtal consists of main system which will be installed in schools upon schools' agreement to purchase the system and add-on modules, Student Problem Analyzer, Student Career Guidance and English Language Diagnosis Module which will be marketed to the school children's parents. The target market of the company is the corporate-owned schools and government schools as well as the parents of the school children. The estimated sales for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013 are RM93,550, RM229,850 and RM416,360 respectively. The second component of the dissertation is focused on the preliminary study by the partners and individual researcher. The preliminary study is being conducted by the three members (Siti Noor Arfah Vmar, Roshini Rajamanicam and Nethanjali Manoharan) to know the user pains of the existing system, Sistem Maklumat Murid (SMM). Survey methodology was used to get information from the teachers. The survey conducted supports the objective and helps to continue with the development of the SMaRtal. For the individual research, the objective is to analyze the functional requirements needed to develop a system that diagnose student's problem in learning English Language. There are four problems in learning English Language which deals with linguistic, grammatical, cultural and psychological. The methodology used to analyze the functional requirements is focused interview using five investigation steps. The steps are preliminary preparation, sampling, data collection, data analysis and conclusion. Sample respondent of the interview is the experts in teaching English Language in schools. The results of the interview revealed that grammatical and linguistic are the main problems faced by the students. This indicates the system that needs to be designed must incorporate the grammatical and linguistic structure assessments. The outcome of the research is Functional Flow Diagram (FFD).
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NOVEL TECHNOLOGY , FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT
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