| dc.description.abstract | The study was an investigation of the influence of school leadership in integration of
information communication technology in teaching and learning in public secondary
schools in Kenya. The study was a case of Buuri Sub-county of Meru County. Certain
factors that are pertinent to characteristics of the school can have significant impact in
influencing the use of ICT skills in learning and teaching opportunities in school
environments. The Objectives of the study included to establish the influence of school
leadership technical support, ICT policy support, school leadership support for
infrastructures and the influence of school leadership support for staff skills development
on the integration of ICT in teaching and learning. The study was based on the School
Based Management (SBM) model which is primarily strategy to decentralize decision
making to the individual school site. The research design was descriptive survey research
and involved the collection of data concerning the influence of school leadership on the
implementation of ICT in teaching and learning. The research was conducted on the
public secondary school in Kenya, Meru County in Buuri sub-county. Buuri sub- County
has a total of 29 public secondary schools. Stratified and simple random sampling was
used. The simple random sampling was applied on 29 schools to get strata of 9 schools
while stratified random sampling was used to select respondents. All the study variables
were analyzed by use of non-parametric spearman’s correlation co-efficient inferential
statistical tools as the measurement of the responses is at nominal and ordinal scale, while
descriptive statistical analysis measures of central tendency and dispersion was adopted
for section ‘A’ of the questionnaire which generate the general background information
of the respondents. The study established that school leadership technical support had no
influence on integration of ICT in teaching and learning in secondary schools. The study
also established that school leadership support for infrastructures, school leadership
support for staff skills development and school leadership support for ICT policy had
influence on integration of ICT in teaching and learning in secondary schools. It is
recommended that more awareness should be made by the bodies that are charged with
policy so as to increase the involvement as most had little to offer on the influence of
policies in the integration of ICT in teaching and learning in secondary schools. | en_US |
