Nowadays most government agencies are making use of Web-Based
Information System to speed-up their transactions. Decision support system is also one of the most common types of system that is being deployed online today. One of the most common algorithms that are used by decision support system is the Decision Tree; decision tree builds classification or regression models in the form of a tree structure. It breaks down a dataset into smaller and smaller subsets while at the same time an associated decision tree is incrementally developed. The final result is a tree with decision nodes and leaf nodes.
Meanwhile, R.A. 10687 mandates Scholarship Program that aims to help
indigent citizens all throughout the Philippines. This Act is supported by Santiago City to promote a City wide College Scholarship Program to help indigent families on their financial problems. However, there are issues that need to be addressed in the current scholarship program of the City Hall.
Scholarship application in Santiago City Scholarship Board is all done
manually using paper-based processing. Applicants have to fill out application forms and submit them manually in the office. Meaning, applications are being checked manually . This manual process consumes a lot of time in checking and accessing student/applicant pre-application information.
The developed Decision Support System for Online Scholarship
Application through Classification using Decision Tree is a web-based system designed to assist the process of scholarship granting. The system’s primary use is to assess student’s pre-application requirements through the use of Decision Tree Algorithm. The system was developed using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap and JQuery and implemented in the Scholarship Board of Santiago City, Isabela. Through the use of the developed system, the Scholarship Board of Santiago City boosts up its assessment of pre-application requirement using decision tree classification. Students will just fil-up pre-application requirements and the system classifies them from qualified to not-qualified. In general, previously identified problems in the scholarship application were all addressed.