Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competency as an Integral Factor in the Improvement of the Head Teachers` Effectiveness in Record Keeping and School Management
- January 31, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705
Zuwaira Ahmed, ABDULLAHI1, Ahmed, MIJINYAWA2, Gambo Alhaji DANLADI3
1,2&3Foundations Department, School of Education, Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare, Bauchi State, Nigeria
Abstract: – School records are veritable tools that aid the smooth management of the day to day activities of the school. Records give direction to the prompt derivation and computation of all education indicators for evidence based planning, monitoring, evaluation, and administration as well as national and global reporting competitiveness. School records are essential part of school administration as it generates a range of statistics on the entire school activities. These records can also be used to inform the parents and the communities about the school performance, enable school generate information for the monitoring of the education system and also, help in planning and decision making process at the policy level. Despite its enormous importance however, records are poorly kept and managed in most of the Nigerian schools. Poor school records weaken effective school administration which leads to inefficiencies in education management and policy implementation at all levels of education. It is in attempt to address this existing problem of poor record keeping habit by school administrators that this paper haven reviewed researches on same/similar topic conducted elsewhere and the writer’s personal experiences and observations examined how ICT competency of head teachers and school managers will tend to improve their efficiency and effectiveness towards record keeping. The paper also revealed certain factors militating against effective use of ICT by those school heads and managers. Recommendations on how to make the head teachers and school managers become more competent in the use of ICT for effective record keeping and school management was then proffered.
Key Words: Head teacher, Record Keeping and School Management.
I. INTRODUCTION
In Nigeria school record keeping and management as part of effective Administration and as a means of ensuring productivity and high level performance has not been given necessary attention that it deserves. Records and record keeping constitute the life wire of every organization (Egwunyenga, 2006) it will be very difficult to efficiently manage any organization like school if records are not kept and properly managed. Over the years, primary schools administrators had paid lip-services to the proper record keeping. The only emphasis as per the school is concern is simply to teach and graduate pupils but the aspect of keeping record is poorly practiced and highly neglected.
