The Web Application Development for Information Dissertation Retrieval for Undergraduate, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

The research purpose is to develop a web application for dissertation retrieval. This research was categorized in an investigation and methodology development category under the core concept of the life cycle of the system development. The users in this study were divided into 3 groups: (1) undergraduate students, (2) lecturers, (3) administrators from Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University. Currently, there are many applications for dissertation storation such as AppSheet, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. Moreover, the code for dissertation retrieval was not in a standard format, so it brought about an inconvenience to search and check the dissertation. These brought to research for developing a Web Application for dissertation retrieval which could be more friendly to use at any time via the Internet network. We provided a support system in 4 main important processes: logging in, adding, retrieving, and organizing the dissertation on the 7 tables database. The user interface is consistency the above 4 processes. The group of lecturers and administrators can access various statistical reports including the overall number of dissertations categorized by a main advisor and a group of 11 statistical contents. There could bring about the idea for building on new projects, planning and developing the curriculum. The group of administrators can easily access to manage information via the web. The users tried out and assessed of the system. There was a high satisfaction level from the undergraduate students and lecturer in the Department of Statistics ( = 4.04; S.D.= 0.74 and = 3.81; S.D. = 0.74, respectively), and the highest satisfaction level from the administrator from the satisfaction assessment ( = 4.30; S.D. = 0.69).