Adoption of information and communication technology in the management of public primary teacher training colleges in Meru county
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Date
2014-10-31
Authors
Nkonge, Janet Kathure
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
ICT has contributed greatly to educational management in teacher training colleges
globally. However, in Kenya teacher training colleges minimally use rcr- to manage
the quality of output or to raise tutor productivity, to reduce the costs through
analyzing spending, or to analyze student's assessment. This is attributed to a myriad
of challenges facing most TTCs in Kenya with regard to adoption of ICTs in
management. This has resulted to a slow rate of adoption of technology despite its
promise and potential for use in educational management in TTCs. The purpose of
this study therefore is to investigate the challenges facing the principals in the
adoption of ICT in primary teacher training colleges in Meru County. Specific
objectives of the study will be: To investigate the influence of availability of
equipment on adaptation of ICT in primary TTC, to determine the influence of
institutional support on the adoption of ICT, to find out the perception of the tutors on
the adoption of ICT in primary TTCs and finally to investigate the application of
computers in the management of public primary TTC's. The study will adopt a
descriptive survey design which will be a combination of both qualitative and
quantitative data collection and analysis techniques. The target population will be
2362 respondents consisting of; 2 principals, 90 tutors and top administrators from
Egoj i TTC, 70 tutors and top administrators from Meru TTC, 1200 student teachers
from Egoji TTC and 1000 student teachers from Meru TTC. Stratified random
sampling will be used to select the tutors and the student teachers to be included in the
study and the 2 principals picked from the two colleges. The sample size will be 710
respondents which is 30% of the total population. This comprises; 28 tutors and top
managers from Egoji TTC, 22 tutors and top managers from Meru TTC, 360 student
teachers from Egoji TTC and 300 student teachers from Meru TTC. This translates to
48 tutors and top managers and 660 student teachers from both the institutions.
Questionnaires will be used as instrument for collecting data from the tutors and the
student teachers while interview schedule will be administered to the principals. To
ascertain reliability, test-retest technique will be used and then correlated using the
Spearman's rank order, so as to obtain reliability. Content validity will be used
employing expert review of the research instruments. Data analysis will be done using
descriptive statistics after data cleaning and coding. Quantitative data will be analyzed
using frequency counts, means and percentages while' qualitative data will be
analyzed by tallying the numbers of similar response. Results of data analysis will be
presented using frequency distribution tables and bar graphs