Determinants of Principals’ Level of Integration of Information Communication Technology in Management of Public Secondary Schools in Nairobi County, Kenya
Abstract
This study investigated the determinants of Principals’ level of integration of
Information Communication Technology (ICT) in management of public secondary
schools in Nairobi County. The objectives, research questions and hypotheses of the
study were based on the following variables: whether the Principals’ gender, age,
educational level, level of training in ICT, access to ICT facilities, attitudes and
challenges and their level of integration of ICT in the management of public
secondary schools in Nairobi County. The study was founded on Roger’s Theory of
Diffusion. It was conducted using descriptive survey design. The target population
was all the 73 principals of public secondary schools of Nairobi County at the time
of study. The study was conducted on all the 73 principals in Nairobi County. The
research instruments used were the questionnaire, interview schedule and checklist.
A pilot study was done among principals of seven (10%) public secondary schools
in Nairobi County and Cronbach alpha (α) was used to test the reliability of the
instruments. Ethical considerations were upheld. Data were collected through
principals’ self-administered questionnaires, interview schedule and observation
checklist. Quantitative data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS) programme number 20.0. Inferential statistics were used in the
analysis of all hypotheses. Chi-square (χ2) test was used to test the null hypothesis
which was accepted or rejected at 0.05 level of significance. Results from the
analysis of data revealed that principals’ age, their in-service ICT training and
access to ICT facilities were significantly related to the level of ICT integration in
management of public secondary schools. However, principals’ gender and
principals’ gender and educational level were not significantly related to their level
of ICT integration in the management of public secondary schools.it was also
revealed that the principals generally help positive attitudes towards ICT use in the
management of pubic secondary schools. The study found that principals needed
more tailor-made in-service training and incentives in order to transfer their
theoretical enthusiasm into practice. The study revealed the following challenges
encountered by principals: financial constraints, lack of ICT infrastructure, negative
attitudes toward ICT integration, lack of enough technical support and maintenance.
This study found that even though some of the secondary schools have not
integrated ICT due to lack of resources and electricity most of them had. The study
made several recommendations among them was the necessity for the Ministry of
Education to layout ICT infrastructure in schools in order to facilitate the use of
ICT in the management of schools and Principals should also be trained on ICT use
for management of public secondary schools purpose
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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