Efficacy of Scan Attendance Manager Application Using Quick Response Code in Dagohoy National High School, Bohol, Philippines

Abstract

This study primarily aimed to assess the efficacy of Scan Attendance Manager Application using Quick Response Code as perceived by the teachers in Dagohoy National High School, Dagohoy, Bohol, Philippines, School Year 2019-2020. It utilized Descriptive-Comparative research design through survey method.  It was concluded that the Scan Attendance Manager is a reliable application wherein teachers could conveniently use to monitor class attendance by simply scanning the QR code embedded to each student's ID. As expected, this application provides efficient data output from detecting absent students to generating reports; thus, it is advisable to use. As all teacher-respondents strongly agree, there is nothing to worry about generating the reports since the data produced by the SAM application is definitely accurate. It was also concluded that the Scan Attendance Manager app is not only useful for classroom attendance; it can also be used to different kind of activities considering that there will be attendance to monitor. Moreover, the attendance data report was securely stored in the SAM database, and the teachers need nothing to worry about confidentiality since they are the only ones who have access. There is a significant difference between the weighted average class attendance percentage of the months before and after using the SAM app. It further signifies that the attendance of the class after the teachers have utilized the SAM application had evidently shown significant improvement; thus the Scan Attendance Manager Application using Quick Response Code is useful not just by providing convenience to teachers, but importantly it virtually eliminates absences. There is a significant variance among the five classifications of the Efficacy of the Scan Attendance Manager App as perceived by the teachers. Among the five classifications, teachers have extensively perceived the efficient output that Scan Attendance Manager could provide in terms of its general function in monitoring class attendance.