Abstract:
This research aimed at (1) studying and developing the Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat university alumni information system, (2) finding the efficiency of the developed system. The system was developed in order to be capable for system login, password changing, adding, removing, modifying, and searching for related information within the system. The researcher chose Black-Box testing for system evaluation which was divided into 2 phases: Alpha testing - which was evaluated by 3 experts, and Beta testing - which was evaluated by 30 Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat university students chosen by purposive sampling from the members of the system who were the alumni of faculty of computer science, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. The researcher has developed the system using MySql as a database management system running on Windows XP operating system and used PHP for manipulation of web for database connection, and displayed the results back via web browser. The application performance evaluation the efficiency evaluation form for the Alumni Information System via websites accessed by alumni members. Statistics used in data analysis included arithmetic mean and standard deviation.
The research findings were as follows:
1. The developed system application was capable to thoroughly manage and manipulate alumni data system from system login, adding and modifying data, changing password, notifying of related information, and searching for alumni data until the process was over, printing searching report, answering online questionnaire, and system logoff.
2. The result of performance evaluation of the application carried out by experts revealed that the system performance was obtained at a good level with arithmetic mean of 4.29 and such result evaluated by system members was still obtained at a good level with arithmetic mean of 3.76