Automated e-Rubric Calculator for Final Year Project Assessment

Abstract

The final year project (FYP) is synonym for final year students at the university level. Lecturers will be appointed as supervisors to supervise these students, and also as examiners to evaluate other FYP students. At a later stage of the subject, lecturers are required to evaluate all students according to the given assessment rubrics. The Automated E-Rubric Calculator for Final Year Project Assessment is an innovation from traditional paper rubric marking into a systematic design of computerized assessment. The idea was sparked and designed due to the complexity and tedious marking process a lecturer must undergo every semester the FYP subject is offered. The complexity includes the weightage set for each item using decimal numbers. Because it is currently manually calculated, the marks given are also at risk of error. The existence of the system is able to assist users, that are lecturers and academicians that require focus while doing the assessment. There will be no more manual calculations required because of the automated e-rubric calculation features in the developed system. With a computerized system to compute FYP marks, lecturers have more time to spend on other impactful projects and tasks. Overall, the Assessment because lecturers have a better, and more systematic rubric system developed for them.