International Journal of Engineering and Information Systems (IJEAIS)
  Year: 2020 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 6 | Page No.: 42-50
A Proposal to Implement a Blockchain-Based Model to Measure Student's Performance in Higher Education Institutions in Oman
Siham Nasser AlDarei, Amal Sultan AL Muqrashi, S. Arockiasamy

Abstract:
the academic performance of students in higher education is considered as an essential benchmark to evaluate and measure the quality of students using the grades of academic activities. This study highlights the use of blockchain technology to measure the students' academic performance and achievements. In addition, it will help to improve the quality of evaluation of students in Higher Education institutions across the world. Obviously, when it comes to educational data maintenance and management, the blockchain and ledgers are likelihood technologies to be used to improve the ways for recording students' academic performance. One of the challenges in educational domain is that there is no distinguished mechanism to follow and manage academic and co- curricular activities, without having unified control to guarantee non-refusal of information. Based on literature review, there is no proper implementation done for measuring students' performance using blockchain technology. This paper aims to explore one of the potential benefits of applying blockchain-based system in measuring the academic performance of students in Higher Education institutions in Oman. We propose a blockchain-based model to explore how this technology can be used to track and measure students' performance, achievements besides academic results. The effect of student's involvement in academic and co-curricular activities and their effect on the academic performance have been analyzed. The outcomes of this research reveals to obtain some important indications on the influence of co-curricular activities on students' academic performance and the use of blockchain that will help to measure the students' competencies in an effective way.