Adoption of information and communication technology in the management of public primary teacher training colleges in Meru county

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dc.contributor.authorNkonge, Janet Kathure
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-31T08:13:38Z
dc.date.available2014-10-31T08:13:38Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-31
dc.description.abstractICT 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 graphsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/11577
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.titleAdoption of information and communication technology in the management of public primary teacher training colleges in Meru countyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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