ABSTRACT

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.