Students’ Academic Performance (SAP) is an important metric in determining the status of students in any academic institution. It allows the instructors and other education managers to get an accurate evaluation of the students in different courses in a particular semester and also serve as an indicator to the students to review their strategies for better performance in the subsequent semesters. Predicting SAP is therefore important to help learners in obtaining the best from their studies. A number of researches in Educational Psychology (EP), Learning Analytics (LA) and Educational Data Mining (EDM) has been carried out to study and predict SAP, most especially in determining failures or dropouts with the goal of preventing the occurrence of the negative final outcome. This paper presents a comprehensive review of related studies that deal with SAP and dropout predictions. To group the studies, this review proposes taxonomy of the methods and features used in the literature for SAP and dropout prediction. The paper identifies some key issues and challenges for SAP and dropout predictions that require substantial research efforts. Limitations of the existing approaches for SAP and dropout prediction are identified. Finally, the paper exposes the current research directions in the area.

The advancement in Information and Communication Technology has brought about a great revolution in the way most of our activities are being done in this era. Standard examinations and tests are now being conducted globally using the information technology tools. These examinations/tests are being referred to by several names, some of which are the Computer Based Tests (CBT), Computer Based Assessment (CBA), e-examinations, e-assessment and so on. The assessments carried out with these technologies have had its own several challenges in form of examination malpractices most especially impersonation. This paper presents a Computer Based Assessment system which uses biometric facial data capturing of students/candidates for assessment as a measure of preventing impersonation. The system was implemented on Visual Basic.Net platform, tested with a set of students in HND II Computer Science department of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida and the system was able to record zero percent impersonation among the selected students.

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An e-library system is a very important element of the internet age libraries. A library without it may face a lot of challenges like the lack of adequate visitation by the users. This paper presents an e-library system that was developed using PHP programming language, HTML and CSS for design and MySQL as a backend database technology to run on Apache v3.21 application server and Mozilla FireFox web browser. The system allows multimedia sources to be accessed by the users of the library and was able to eliminate the problems of unavailiability of library resources, inadequate space, physical bounding and restricted access that characterized the traditional library system.

The adoption of electronic government (or e-government) by any country is a direct implication that the majority of its citizens; if not all must possess high level of computer literacy. This paper therefore investigates the computer literacy levels of primary school teachers in Bida with a view to find out their degree of acceptance of e-governance as a system. The study uses descriptive survey of a hundred (100) teachers who were randomly selected from 10 schools in Bida as respondents. The research instrument used was a selfreporting questionnaire titled: Teachers Computer Literacy Questionnaire (TCLQ) with internal consistency of 0.65. The result, which was presented using group percentages and barcharts, shows that there is high level of computer literacy among the teachers as well as revealing highest percentage of respondents with positive feelings for e-products -a factor of acceptance of e-governance.