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KUWAIT, Aug 7 (KUNA) -- A Kuwaiti researcher has invented a system to
control presence and absence of students in schools and universities and has
registered his new invention with the Intellectual Property Office in Britain.
Named (system and method for monitoring and motivating students to attend),
Associate Professor of education and director of research and development in
the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) Dr. Zaid Al-Shammari
told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that his invention is represented in a system
to monitor and improve the attendance through scientifically-proven techniques
to stimulate and change the behavior of students.
He added that the invention is designed to address the reluctance of
students and increase the percentage of attendance in the classroom, adding
that scientific studies have shown that student attendance has a direct
relationship with his or her scientific achievements.
He said that the invention focuses on how to design effective ways to
manage the classroom attendance such as laws, collecting and analyzing
information to these methods.
The research focused on how students follow the laws in the classroom,
taking into account the requirements of the period of study and their
attendance ratio.
The researcher also came out with several other measures, such as taking
the names of attendees in each lecture and the collection and coding of
student attendance on a form that was designed by the researcher and then take
notes and monitor the behavior of student attendance in each classroom. (end)
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