Abstract
In Kazakhstan, checking students' attendance is one of the
important issues for universities, because many universities
evaluate students’ attendance and while giving the final grade,
professors consider their total number of appearances on classes
during the whole semester. This brings to the idea of having
some tool to control students’ attendance. Some universities
prefer to use paper sheet for controlling attendance, whereas
some universities prefer to use paper sheet for checking
students' attendance and after this, fill out these information into
a system manually, like Kazakh-British Technical University
does. However, this is not an efficient way since there will be
spent much of time for calling students names and putting marks
like "presence" or "absence" if the class is a lecture class, and in
this class at least 5 groups are presented. Moreover, some
students may call his/her friend as "presence" even though this
student is currently absent. After thinking all these issues,
authors of the following research paper decided to create a
system that makes easier to check students’ attendance
automatically, and this system is implemented in Suleyman
Demirel University, Kazakhstan. Actually, this is the first time
when such kind of system is being used in educational system of
Kazakhstan. The system is based on RFID technology, and in
this paper, details of this system are presented.
Keywords: RFID: Radio Frequency Identification; RFID-tag;
RFID- reader; attendance control system.