Mobile Application for Self-Assessment of Teacher Student Competencies: A mobile application for student teacher competency self-assessment: API and Database Design and Implementation

The bachelor's thesis is devoted to the issue of self-evaluation of student teachers. Its goal is to design and implement a server application providing an application programming interface (API) for a mobile application used for self-evaluation of teacher students at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Masaryk University in Brno. The application was developed with the help of MMSP methodology - agile development in combination with Lean and Scrum agile methodologies. Together with the application, the database model and the automatic deployment process were designed. In the introduction, the author introduces the key concepts that must be known when developing a server application. It further explains the concepts related to the domain part of the application and presents the standard of quality of the professional competences of the student teacher, which was behind the creation of the requirements of this application. The reader is introduced to the entire development process, from the methodology, through the selection of tools, to the design and implementation of individual parts of the solution. The author presents all the tools and technologies he used to achieve his goals and design and develop an application that provides an API. At the end of the work, the author focuses on the process of continuous deployment of the application and its maintenance and monitoring of server performance. In the final chapter, he then evaluates his own processing, points out shortcomings and shows the possibilities of how the application can be further developed. The result of this bachelor thesis is a fully functional server application providing an API for a mobile application intended for the self-evaluation of teacher students. A robust database model has been created that is fully compatible with mobile application functionality, and a continuous deployment process has been established with an emphasis on automation, maintenance and server performance monitoring. This application facilitates the self-evaluation of teaching students at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Masaryk University in Brno and offers a solid basis for further development and improvement of functionality.