Insights and Trends of Capstone Project of CS/IT Department of Bicol University from 2011 to 2019

Abstract

Purpose -This study aims to provide a review of the thesis submitted by undergraduate students and provide sound inputs to academic programs which shall open new trends of researchable areas. This may also influence the research areas of the IT degree program once students started to propose capstone projects. More importantly, the output of this study shall give faculty members the insights of setting the capstone development projects and encourage them to introduce diverse applications of technology Method -The samples of the study are the manuscript Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) obtained from 2011 to 2019 with capstone details (i.e. name of a student, capstone titles, adviser, panel members). These manuscripts are extracted from the CSIT faculty department, faculty storage room, department computer, and main library of the University. A total of two-hundred seventy-three (273) manuscript titles were retrieved for analysis. The titles are converted into lowercase characters for easy categorization utilizing the features MS Excel transposition method and PivotTable. Special symbols like dash, colon, parentheses, slash, and apostrophe are removed to Research Implications -Almost all developed capstone projects are inclined to browserbased application development and developed using PHP scripting language. The inclusion of information like tools and applications (including the versions) used in the development provides a general idea of the process. Discussion of current trends and potential researchable areas could be presented before the capstone project proposal. This would give students insights and probably room for opportunity to expose students to higher learning ability.